Treasury and Financial Management

Course Coordinators: 

• Dr Agol Ho, BSc (HKU); MSc, MPhil (HKUST); PhD (SUFE, Shanghai)
• To be announced

Course Developer: Dr Ruth Tan, National University of Singapore

Aims
This course aims to prepare learners to apply essential tools and key concepts to evaluate the financial policies of a corporation. It equips learners with the skills necessary to make rational financial decisions.

Contents
The course covers the following topics:

• Overview of corporate finance
• Investment decisions: capital budgeting
• Cost of capital and capital structure of a firm
• Corporate financing decisions
• Other topics in corporate finance

Learning support
There will be four three-hour tutorials and one six-hour day school.

Assessment
There are two assignments and one examination. Students must use word processing software (such as Microsoft Word) to prepare the assignments, and submit the assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Set book(s)
Ross, S, Westerfield, R, Jaffe, J and Jordan, B (2022) Corporate Finance,13th edn, McGraw-Hill.