601.666 (21S) BUS 4: Capital Budgeting and Financing

Sommersemester 2021

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First course session
04.03.2021 08:30 - 10:30 online Off Campus
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Overview

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be necessary to make changes to courses and examinations at short notice (e.g. cancellation of attendance-based courses and switching to online examinations).

For further information regarding teaching on campus, please visit: https://www.aau.at/en/corona.
Lecturer
Course title german BUS 4: Capital Budgeting and Financing
Type Lecture
Course model Online course
Hours per Week 1.0
ECTS credits 2.0
Registrations 34
Organisational unit
Language of instruction English
possible language(s) of the assessment English
Course begins on 04.03.2021
eLearning Go to Moodle course

Time and place

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Course Information

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Lecture, Discussion

The theoretical explanations are supplemented by practical examples.

Course content

Central issues of Corporate Finance & Capital Budgeting are taken up and discussed. The lecture covers capital budgeting techniques as well as various types of financing such as equity and debt financing. 

Subjects:

  • Time value of money, net present value, annuities, perpetuities
  • NPV with investment opportunities, payback, internal rate of return,
  • Investment timing,  replacement decisions
  • Short term financing, working capital line of credit, trade credit
  • Long term financing, raising equity and debt capital
  • Leasing

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Modified examination information (exceptional COVID-19 provisions)

The exam will be a moodle-hosted, online and open-book:

  • Online exams will be available in moodle on
  1. April 29 2021, 14:00 - 15:05 CEST
  2. May 27 2021, 14:00 - 15:05 CEST
  3. June 25 2021, 14:00 - 15:05 CEST
  • The exams will be open book, feel free to use lecture slides, textbooks, ...
  • The exam will be available for 65 minutes, there is a time limit of 60 minutes to complete the test
  • You will be presented 30 statements from a questions-pool, they will appear in a random order for each student
  • Answer the statements true or false (in german: wahr / falsch)
  • Each correct answer counts one credit
  • Grading:
    • 15-18 correct answers: 4
    • 19-22 correct answers: 3
    • 23-26 correct answers: 2
    • 27-30 correct answers: 1

Examination methodology

Online exam

Examination topic(s)

Lecture slides

Brealey/Myers/Allen, Principles of Corporate Finance, Global Edition, 2014.

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

30 single-choice questions

  • Grading:
    • 15-18 correct answers: 4
    • 19-22 correct answers: 3
    • 23-26 correct answers: 2
    • 27-30 correct answers: 1

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

  • Bachelor's degree programme International Business and Economics (SKZ: 516, Version: 19W.1)
    • Subject: Principles of Business (Compulsory subject)
      • 1.5 BUS 4: Capital Budgeting and Financing ( 0.0h VO, VI / 2.0 ECTS)
        • 601.666 BUS 4: Capital Budgeting and Financing (1.0h VO / 2.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 1., 2., 3., 4. Semester empfohlen

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