UNSW Business School

School of Banking & Finance

FINS 1613
BUSINESS FINANCE

Course Syllabus
Semester 2, 2018

Course-Specific Information

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 Table of Contents
COURSE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 1
1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS 1
2 TEXTBOOK 1
3 COURSE AND TUTORIAL SCHEDULE 2

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 COURSE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS

Lecturer-in-charge: Dr. Kyung Hwan Shim (covering weeks 1 to 4 and 6 to 12)
Room: 306 UNSW Business School Building
Phone No: 9385 5852
Email: k.shim@unsw.edu.au
Consultation Times – Most Fridays 2 to 3PM; Last Friday of each month 3 to 4PM; No
consultation during week 4 and 5; or by appointment. Consultation times to be revised for the
examination period.

Co-Lecturer: Jimmy Tran (covering weeks 4 to 6)

Room: 344AA
Phone No: TBA
Email: jimmy.tran@unsw.edu.au
Consultation Times – Thursday s 2 to 3PM (or by appointment).

2 TEXTBOOK

Required text: Essentials of Corporate Finance (4rd Australian and New Zealand edition), by
Stephen A. Ross, Rowan Traylor, Gerhard Van de Vender, Ron Bird, Randolph W. Westerfield
and Bradford D. Jordan, McGraw Hill Irwin, 2016 plus Connect. ISBN#: 9781743762936

Print version: Available at UNSW Bookstore.

Digital version: Available at the McGraw Hill Website (www.mheducation.com.au). Receive a

15% discount before 2nd September 2018 by applying the following code when prompted:
BTU18ME.

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 3 COURSE AND TUTORIAL SCHEDULE
Tutorials start in Week 2 and finish in Week 13.
Lectures start in Week 1 and finish in Week 12.

COURSE SCHEDULE
Week Lecture Topic Tutorial Topic Lecture Readings Lecturer
Week 1 Introduction and Basic
NO TUTORIALS Ch 1 Shim
23 July Concepts
Week 2 Introduction and Basic
Financial Mathematics Ch 4,5 Shim
30 July Concepts
The Valuation of a
Week 3
Firm’s Securities: Financial Mathematics Ch 6 Shim
6 August
Bonds
The Valuation of a
Week 4 The Valuation of a Firm’s
Firm’s Securities: Ch 7 Shim/Tran
13 August Securities: Bonds
Shares
Capital Budgeting: NPV
Week 5 The Valuation of a Firm’s
and Other Investment Ch 8 Tran
20 August Securities: Shares
Criteria
Capital Budgeting:
Week 6 Making Investment Capital Budgeting: NPV and Ch 9. Tran/Shim
27 August Decisions Other Investment Criteria Pre-read Ch 2

Capital Budgeting: Making

Week 7 Capital Market History Investment Decisions Ch 10 Shim
3 September

Week 8 Risk and Return Capital Market History Shim

Ch 11
10 September

Week 9 Risk and Return

Cost of Capital Ch 12 Shim
17 September

Mid-semester break: 22 September – 1 October inclusive (1 Oct = Labour Day Public Holiday)

Week 10
Capital Structure Cost of Capital Ch 13 Shim
2 October
Week 11
Dividend Policy Capital Structure Ch 14 Shim
8 October
Week 12
Raising Capital Dividend Policy Ch 15 Shim
15 October
Week 13
NO LECTURES Raising Capital
22 October

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