NTU Nanyang Business School Common Cores
Module:
AB1201 Financial Management
Description:
The objective of this course is to provide business and accounting students with a broad understanding of all the important financial principles, concepts, and analytical tools. This is a first course in finance and is compulsory for all business and accounting students. It is essential for all business and accounting undergraduates to have a good understanding of the various financial issues faced by a firm. This requires the understanding and analysis of financial statements, fundamental concepts such as the time value of money, risk and return, corporate financing choices, and investment analysis. For the banking and finance students it is important that they have a good grounding in this course in order to better prepare themselves for other advanced finance courses.
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Module:
AB1201 Financial Management
Description:
The objective of this course is to provide business and accounting students with a broad understanding of all the important financial principles, concepts, and analytical tools. This is a first course in finance and is compulsory for all business and accounting students. It is essential for all business and accounting undergraduates to have a good understanding of the various financial issues faced by a firm. This requires the understanding and analysis of financial statements, fundamental concepts such as the time value of money, risk and return, corporate financing choices, and investment analysis. For the banking and finance students it is important that they have a good grounding in this course in order to better prepare themselves for other advanced finance courses.
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AB1201 Financial Management
ReplyDeleteLectures attended: 100% (Dr Chanika / Angie) [E-lectures]
Tutorials attended: 100% (Dr Chanika Charoenwong)
Textbook(s): Brigham, Eugene F., Joel F. Houston, Jun-ming Hsu, Yoon Kee Kong, and A.N. Bany Ariffin,
Essentials of Financial Management, 3rd edition, Cengage Learning Asia. ISBN-13: 9789814441377.
Assessment: Tutorial Presentation (7%), Group Project (8%), Online Assignments (5%), Mid-Term Quiz (20%), Closed-book Final Examination (60%)
Comment(s):
This is one of the most important Year 1 modules for Business students if you are gunning for the Business and Finance specialisation. This is due to the grade requirement to be be considered for the specialisation. (Should be at least B+ but do not quote me for it because I am not familiar with this!)
The content delivery of this module had changed much since its inception. Now, it delivers its lectures through online lectures. The plus side to this is that there is no need for you to go to school for lectures. For some, it is a lost opportunity to clarify questions. (There are still forums and emails, no worries hardworking students hahas)
The assessment breakdown looks daunting but it is less taxing than it seems. It really is more of continuous work. As long as you keep up to the pace of the coursework, it should be a breeze for you.
I would recommend Chanika as your tutor, if possible. She puts in the extra effort to go through the contents once more and clarifies any doubt you might have for the chapters. Also, she gives additional questions for you to attempt in class, preparing you for the mid-terms and the finals.
The Mid-Term Quiz is fairly important and you should never dismiss this. Doing well for this quiz is indicative of your knowledge in Financial Management thus far. The quiz traditionally focuses more heavily on the concepts. It is also the course's tradition to release the questions and solutions for the past 3 semesters so you will be adequately prepared for the quiz.
The finals is similar to the mid-term quiz but includes more calculations. Again, the coordinator will traditionally release past papers and solutions for your revision. I found this to be especially helpful as not every business modules readily give away such resources.
In the event that you do not feel prepared after attempting the past papers, feel free to attempt the self-practice questions in the tutorials (strongly recommended, by the way) and textbook questions. Speaking of textbook, the textbook is essential as there will be contents exclusively in the textbook that will be tested. These concepts will not be found in the lecture notes. Finally, while studying with the textbook, do not discount the footnotes as they can be tested as well.
This module is an intro module to corporate finance, where fundamental finance concepts are taught. It is really quite chill, e-lectures which you could play at 2x and a tutorial class to reconcile the concepts after every chapter.
ReplyDeleteEach chapter is peppered with concepts and formulas that will be tested, with some content not included in the slides. So, it will be good to create your own notes or summary, to find out some parts that you are not clear, debug them and add some of the content that are in the textbook that are not found in the notes. Some professors will be kind enough to provide their own summaries of the the textbook content, which you could use to fill in some extra points that you miss out.
The mid terms and finals are close book. As you know, this is a calculation based module, so do practice the past year papers and walk through so you are comfortable with the mechanics of using the formulas and applying them to the questions. Doing past year papers might help a little more than tutorials, because they reflect the demands of the questions under timed conditions. A final tip would be to tear off the 2 page formula sheet at the back, so that you can refer to the formula sheet with ease. I realized that after I spent an awful amount of time flipping back and forth to look at the formulas during mid terms.
Some say the paper is a bit short on time, but if you are indeed comfortable with the mechanics after practicing many past year paper questions, it should be fine.