Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LI Corporate Finance
School	Birmingham Business School
Department	Finance
Module Code	07 31814
Module Lead	Yusuf Hartavi
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
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Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-44 hours Seminar-10 hours Guided independent study-146 hours Total: 200 hours
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Description	This module aims to provide a sound grounding in the principles, concepts, analytical techniques and practical applications of financial management in the context of a modern firm. The first half of the module introduces the basic financial concepts such as financial markets and instruments, identification of financing needs and alternative sources of finance, time value of money, and basics of financial securities and real project valuation. The second half of the module aims to cover some of the more advanced building-blocks of finance that are of primary concern to corporate managers focusing on financial decisions both inside and outside the firm. This half will extensively consider the fundamental relationship between risk and return and the theory and practice of financing and dividend decisions.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Explain the goals of financial management, the workings of financial markets, and the main financial instruments; Identify and apply the principles underlying time value of money; Compare and contrast the main sources of financing for a company; Apply basic valuation techniques to real investment decisions and financial securities; Apply the quantitative techniques, and explain the principles, underlying portfolio selection and diversification; Use and explain the capital-asset-pricing-model and the principles underlying asset valuation; Critically appraise the major models proposed to explain corporate capital structure and dividend policies and practices.
Assessment	31814-01 : Group Assignment : Group Assessment - Coursework (50%) 31814-02 : Examination : Exam (Centrally Timetabled) - Written Unseen (50%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: Group Assignment - 5 page Technical Report (50%); of this 50% Group assignment, 20% would be individually assessed in line with University regulations 2-hour exam (50%) Reassessment: Reassessment by component; a 2000-word Individual Assignment taking the place of the Group Assignment
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