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FNCE40001: Advanced Corporate Finance 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2026 
 
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Part 04. Final Examination - Hints and Tips 
 
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University of Melbourne - FNCE40001: Advanced Corporate Finance (Solutions)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	University of Melbourne
Study Level	Honours
Subject Code	FNCE40001
Subject Name	Advanced Corporate Finance
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	35

Struggling to cover everything for FNCE40001: Advanced Corporate Finance at the University of Melbourne? This complete guide shows how the final exam is structured and marked, and the main question styles you can expect. Inside you’ll find exam-style questions with step-by-step solutions, straightforward explanations, and final-exam hints and tips, plus practical guidance on format, key marking points, timing, and model solutions to check your work.

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

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

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