Unit name | Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation |
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Unit code | ECONM2027 |
Credit points | 15 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Clatworthy |
Open unit status | Not open |
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
Units you may not take alongside this one |
N/A |
School/department | School of Accounting and Finance - Business School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit provides frameworks that will help students to interpret information provided in financial statements and understand how businesses and value they generate are reflected and captured in the statements. The unit will cover fundamental analysis developed as a matter of appropriate financial statement analysis. In particular, it will focus on how different accounting information can be converted into valuation, what different accounting measures tell about firm value and how a proper analysis should be developed. Theoretical concepts and principles will be applied in a number of practical exercises. The skills and tools learnt will be those that a security analyst outside the firm may use to advise clients about investing in a firm and also those that a manager within the firm may use to evaluate investments and choose the strategy.
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions including lectures, tutorials, drop-in sessions, discussion boards and other online learning opportunities
Formative assignment:
Practice exam-level questions and mock exams with solutions.
Summative assessment:
This unit will be assessed by a single 2 hour individual exam (100%), assessing ILO1, ILO2, ILO3, ILO4, ILO5.
Any re-assessment required will be a like for like assessment.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.