School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Financial Performance, Accountability and Risk
  • Unit Code

    MBA6022
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Mohd Saiyidi MAT RONI

Description

The continued success of any organisation rests on its ability to create economic value. In this unit, students will examine options a firm may have to create value for stakeholders. Students will apply economic principles, accounting, and financial techniques to evaluate impacts of those options on the firm's financial performance. These techniques enable managers to view decisions from a number of perspectives that allow them to understand their business and risks in which they operate.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over six weeks.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to FBL5030

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the sources of economic values in a business at both micro- and macro-economic levels.
  2. Evaluate firm performance through analysis of real-world financial accounting data.
  3. Apply financial and investment decision techniques to make investment recommendations for organisations.

Unit Content

  1. Demand and supply mechanisms that define the behaviour of buyers and sellers in the market.
  2. Macroeconomics.
  3. Financial statements analyses that enable managers to assess the financial performance of a business.
  4. Analysis of cash flows.
  5. Sources of funds and capital structure of a business.
  6. Capital budgeting techniques and analysis.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over six weeks. Students will navigate resources, videos, academic and non-academic readings in order to engage with, and complete, weekly learning activities and assessments and will have access to a learning facilitator, who can respond to their queries, and provide tailored feedback on tasks. This unit uses principles associated with authentic learning to introduce students to realistic business situations that require analysis using relevant concepts and skills. Students are required to take on the role of management advisors to a company investigating ways of creating economic value and achieving a competitive advantage over their rivals and make justified decisions faced by risk and uncertainty.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseQuiz10%
AssignmentAccounting assignment.50%
AssignmentFinance assignment40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Financial Performance, Accountability and Risk
  • Unit Code

    MBA6022
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Mohd MAT RONI

Description

The continued success of any organisation rests on its ability to create economic value. In this unit, students will examine options a firm may have to create value for stakeholders. Students will apply economic principles, accounting, and financial techniques to evaluate impacts of those options on the firm's financial performance. These techniques enable managers to view decisions from a number of perspectives that allow them to understand their business and risks in which they operate.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over six weeks.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to FBL5030

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the sources of economic values in a business at both micro- and macro-economic levels.
  2. Evaluate firm performance through analysis of real-world financial accounting data.
  3. Apply financial and investment decision techniques to make investment recommendations for organisations.

Unit Content

  1. Demand and supply mechanisms that define the behaviour of buyers and sellers in the market.
  2. Macroeconomics.
  3. Financial statements analyses that enable managers to assess the financial performance of a business.
  4. Analysis of cash flows.
  5. Sources of funds and capital structure of a business.
  6. Capital budgeting techniques and analysis.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over six weeks. Students will navigate resources, videos, academic and non-academic readings in order to engage with, and complete, weekly learning activities and assessments and will have access to a learning facilitator, who can respond to their queries, and provide tailored feedback on tasks. This unit uses principles associated with authentic learning to introduce students to realistic business situations that require analysis using relevant concepts and skills. Students are required to take on the role of management advisors to a company investigating ways of creating economic value and achieving a competitive advantage over their rivals and make justified decisions faced by risk and uncertainty.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAccounting assignment.50%
AssignmentFinance assignment50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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