University of Melbourne - FNCE40001: Advanced Corporate Finance (Solutions)

This subject introduces a study of recent literature in a number of areas of financial management. Main topics to be covered include real options, mergers and acquisitions, capital structure decisions, dividend policy, security analysis and design, and corporate hedging.

✔ On successful completion of this subject the student should be:

• Aware of current state of academic research in different areas of corporate finance such as firms’ corporate governance, executive compensation, capital structure and investment policy, and mergers and acquisitions, among others.

• Be able to clearly understand the research methodologies and data sets commonly utilised in research in corporate finance.

• Be able to critically evaluate research papers in these areas including in depth discussion of the published results as well as the limitations associated with them.

• Be able to reflect on the state-of-knowledge in these areas and propose viable research questions capable to filling gaps in the literature

SUBJECT CODE

SUBJECT NAME

ACCT10001

Accounting Reports and Analysis

ACCT10002

Introductory Financial Accounting

ACCT20001

Accounting for Management Decisions

ECOM20001

Econometrics 1

ECOM30001

Basic Econometrics

ECOM30002

Econometrics 2

ECON10003

Introductory Macroeconomics

ECON10004

Introductory Microeconomics

ECON10005

Quantitative Methods 1

ECON20002

Intermediate Microeconomics

ECON20003

Quantitative Methods 2

FNCE20005

Corporate Financial Decision Making

FNCE30001

Investments

FNCE30007

Derivative Securities

FNCE40001

Advanced Corporate Finance

MAST10010

Data Analysis

MAST20005

Statistics