Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University

DVS6211 20 Credit Points
Research Study
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
DVS6111 Research Proposal
The results of research will culminate in a dissertation of
approximately 10,000-12,000 words. This will be the result of a
substantive investigative project (collection and analysis of
primary and secondary sources) as proposed in the dissertation
proposal and will be evaluated by two examiners: the supervisor
and one other academic.
DVS6212 20 Credit Points
Research Study
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
DVS6111 Research Proposal
The results of research will culminate in a dissertation of
approximately 10,000-12,000 words. This will be the result of a
substantive investigative project (collection and analysis of
primary and secondary sources) as proposed in the dissertation
proposal and will be evaluated by two examiners: the supervisor
and one other academic.
DVS6213 20 Credit Points
Research Study
FACULTY OF EDUCATION & ARTS
Prerequisite :
DVS6111 Research Proposal
The results of research will culminate in a dissertation of
approximately 10,000-12,000 words. This will be the result of a
substantive investigative project (collection and analysis of
primary and secondary sources) as proposed in the dissertation
proposal and will be evaluated by two examiners: the supervisor
and one other academic.
ECF4100 15 Credit Points
Economics IV
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
This unit is designed for students taking economics as part of a
postgraduate professional program of study. Students are
introduced to selected aspects of economic theory and shown how
they relate to key areas of business management such as
marketing, finance, and accounting. The study of a real world
enterprise comprises part of the program of study.
ECF4161 15 Credit Points
Quantitative Studies IV
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
This unit aims to provide graduates in business administration,
accounting and finance with an introductory survey of the many
business applications of descriptive and inferential statistics.
While the course focuses on business applications, it does not
require previous business experience.
Our personal and professional lives are filled with encounters with
random, unpredictable events. Yet we are still forced to make
decisions in these situations. Statistics is the tool for analysing
and thinking about this type of unpredictability. It helps
managers make better and more effective decisions.
ECF4220 15 Credit Points
Principles of Finance IV
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
This unit provides an introduction to the essentials of managerial
finance topics. Students will review the fundamentals of financial
mathematics. These techniques will be used in the process
security valuation and capital budgeting to evaluate capital
expenditure and to assist in long-term asset management. Students
will study the management of working capital, the role of the cost
capital in the investment decision and methods to measure the cost
of capital for the firm. This will include the institutions and
structure of the financial markets and a process to identify and
evaluate various sources of finance for the company. Since the
late 1950’s models have been developed to try and explain the
behaviour of companies and their managers as well as the capital
markets. These models will be reviewed along with such topics as
the principles and uses of portfolio theory and the Capital Asset
Pricing Model, the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and the
determination of capital structure and dividend policy. Finally
students will look at some of the emerging theories in financial
decision making as they pertain to business and the capital
markets as they exist today.
ECF4324 15 Credit Points
International Economics and Finance IV
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
Prerequisites :
ECF4100 Economics IV
ECF4222 Capital Markets IV
ECF4161 Quantitative Studies IV
International economics is divided into two major branches: trade
and finance. Since the area came into being in the sixteenth
century, international trade was always the main focus of
economists. International finance was confined to the study of
international financial activities associated with the finance of
international trade. This subservient nature of international
finance changed with the collapse of the adjustable pegged
exchange rate system (better known as the Bretton Woods
System) in 1971 and the advent of globalisation of financial
markets and worldwide deregulation of financial markets.
Nowadays, the study of international finance can be regarded as
an area in its own right. The primary objective of this unit is to
introduce you to the essence of international trade and finance.
ECF5101 15 Credit Points
Corporate Finance V
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
The objective of this course is to provide a deeper understanding
of corporate finance and the finance function. This includes
corporate investment and financing decisions from both
theoretical and empirical viewpoints. The course will proceed by
first analysing corporate financial policy and investment decisions
in perfect capital markets under conditions of certainty and then
introducing uncertainty and applications of mean/variance
analysis and the CAPM. Various market imperfections will then
be introduced; such as taxation, agency costs and information
asymmetries. The basic decision areas will then be re-evaluated in
the light of the above considerations. Course participants will be
encouraged to utilise the original papers as well as prescribed
texts. This should build an awareness of both the strengths and
limitations of the models and methods used currently in this
branch of financial economics. The controversies, schisms, and
contradictions in viewpoints should be evident. Nevertheless the
tremendous advances in the scope of financial economics and the
close marriage between theory and empirical work should become
apparent.
ECF5103 15 Credit Points
Investment Finance V
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
Empirical testing of asset pricing models and the efficient market
hypothesis; investment performance evaluation and empirical
research therein; new directions in performance measurement.
ECF5112 15 Credit Points
Econometrics V
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
This is a research methodology course based on informationtechnology
oriented applied econometrics. It is primarily designed
for post-graduate students (as well as academic staff belonging to
all social sciences) who are interested in familiarising themselves
with the econometric methods( both conventional and most recent
& ongoing) in order to apply them to testing
models/hypotheses/topical issues with a view to writing their
theses and/or papers for publications in professional scholarly
journals. In order to accommodate participants from different
disciplines, no prior knowledge of econometrics will be assumed.
The course therefore will start from scratch but hopefully will lift
the participants up to a desired level in order to achieve its
objectives.
230 ECU Postgraduate Course Guide 2008