BFF5250 Applied corporate finance

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   design corporate treasury as a strategic business unit with clear structure, roles, functions and control systems

2. 2

   design a risk management framework that reflects the risk appetite of the firm

3. 3

   design risk management strategies including hedging techniques for commodity, interest rate and foreign exchange risk management

4. 4

   design sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, stress testing approaches and apply real option analysis to assist corporate treasurers to analyse investment projects

5. 5

   design structured and option embedded debt and equity products with emphasis on pricing and market considerations

6. 6

   appraise empirical approaches to net working capital management and liquidity management and the treasurer's role in managing profit-risk trade-off

7. 7

   debate empirical estimation of 'optimal' capital structure and the treasurer's role in optimising debt-equity mix using both short and long term funding

8. 8

   debate Australia's dividend imputation tax system and its implications for corporate treasury goals and operations

9. 9

   evaluate treasury management systems and other decision support systems

10. 10

    apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and / or group activities dealing with corporate treasury management and demonstrate in both individual and group summative assessment tasks the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by BFF5250.