Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Business School

Learning Methods

Lecture

Workshop

Module Offerings

5105LBSBW-JAN-MTP

Aims

To enable students/business managers of the future to make evidence-based investment decisions and analyse financial statements and performance in order to ensure sustainability, liquidity and profitability.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Analyse the estimated Risk and Return of investments using a range of statistical methods in order to recommend evidence-based investment decisions.
2.
Explain the implications of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis on investment decisions.
3.
Examine financial statements and performance in order to ensure sustainability, liquidity and profitability.
4.
Evaluate a business as a going and gone concern and recommend plans to restructure the capital in order to avoid liquidation.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:1. The Financial Objectives of the Firm. 2. The Criteria for Investment Decisions. 3. Physical & Financial Investments. 4. Leasing. 5. Risk & Return. 6. Calculating Risk - Beta, Standard Deviation. 7. Portfolio Theory - Correlation & Covariance. 8. Tax Management. 9. The Efficient Market Hypothesis. 10. Financial Statement Analysis: Profitability, Liquidity, Capital Adequacy. 11. Cash Flow & Working Capital Management. 12. Liquidation & Capital Restructure.
Module Overview:
The module is designed to enable you to use investment appraisal techniques and to critically evaluate investment appraisal activity within the firm. The module will also enable you to demonstrate an awareness of the significance of finance theory and its contemporary and practical relevance.
Additional Information:This course enables students to critically evaluate investment decisions and undertake the analysis of financial performance.

Assessments

Presentation