MBO5004 Value, risk and financial management
Faculty of Business and Economics
MBO5004 Value, risk and financial management is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Business and Economics. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Other periods
- Monash Online
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
- Workload
- 150 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before MBO5004
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After MBO5004
No unit lists MBO5004 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
You must be enrolled in course B4009, B5008, B6029 or B9006 to undertake this unit.
Overview
This unit explores contemporary practice of financial management in light of an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment. It introduces the key concepts, frameworks, and theoretical foundations necessary for leaders without a finance background to work effectively with the organisation’s finance professionals. Specifically, the unit introduces a framework of financial decision areas and related risks that must be managed to create value. To deepen and extend understanding, the unit introduces a series of forces - technological, social, environmental, economic, and geopolitical – which will shape the practice of financial management in the future.
Informed with foundational knowledge and enlightened by future directions, this unit prepares leaders to understand the organisation’s finance function in light of contributions it should make to strategic performance, today and in the future. As one of six operational knowledge units, it also provides ample opportunity to apply your learning to professional practice and build a portfolio of projects relevant to your career.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching period 3 | Monash Online | Mo |
Assessment
- Written40%
- Written60%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
demonstrate understanding and application of contemporary finance theory, models and frameworks to work effectively with an organisation’s finance professionals
- 2
evaluate the integration of digital advancements within an organisation’s financial systems and management
- 3
examine the potential impact of technological, social, environmental, economic, and geopolitical forces on the future practice of financial management.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 150 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.
This unit includes case-based teaching, where you apply your knowledge and engage in analytical and reflective thinking to solve complex contextual scenarios. Activities are often designed so that there is not one clear answer, but you need to work together to examine, analyse and make decisions to resolve the situation.
This unit engages you in actively applying your knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
This unit includes problem-based learning approaches, where you engage in research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions in response to a problem or set of problems.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Zoltan Murgulov
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for MBO5004?
MBO5004 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is MBO5004 offered?
MBO5004 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is MBO5004?
The handbook expects about 150 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does MBO5004 have an exam?
No. MBO5004 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.