Overview:
- Credits:
- 5.0
- Level:
- 4
- Semester:
- Autumn
- Subject:
- Finance
- School:
- Business
- Coordinator:
- Professor Thomas Conlon
FIN41970 Corporate Finance for Aviation
Academic Year 2023/2024
This module aims to provide students with a foundation in the corporate and managerial financial decisions encountered by firms, with particular focus on the Aviation Finance Industry. Corporate Finance is concerned with how firms raise, manage and spend money. On completing this module students will have an understanding of the role of the financial manager in a company in appraising investments, quantifying the risk/return relationship, evaluating sources of company funding, setting dividend policy and undertaking mergers and acquisitions.Show/hide contentOpenClose All
Curricular information is subject to change
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students should: -
1. Understand why shareholder wealth maximisation is considered to be the primary objective of a firm.
2. Achieve a good practical and theoretical understanding of:
(i) the financing decision,
(ii) the investment decision, and
(iii) the dividend decision.
3. Develop an understanding of functional financial decisions, such as mergers and asset valuation.
4. Appreciate the corporate underpinnings of aviation and airline finance.
| Student Effort Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 0 |
| Small Group | 1 |
| Total | 1 |
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Not applicable to this module.
Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
Assessment Strategy
| Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Assessment: Continuous assessment throughout the trimester | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% | No | 60 |
| Examination: In Class Examination | Week 12 | Yes | Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% | No | 40 |
| Resit In | Terminal Exam |
|---|---|
| Spring | No |
Feedback Strategy/Strategies
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
How will my Feedback be Delivered?
Not yet recorded.
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 9, 10, 11, 12 | Fri 10:00 - 11:50 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 9, 10, 11, 12 | Fri 12:30 - 14:20 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 7 | Thurs 10:30 - 12:20 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 7 | Thurs 13:30 - 15:20 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 8 | Wed 10:00 - 11:50 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 8 | Wed 12:30 - 14:20 |
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