Finance units

[EspoirTron]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone has taken BFC2140: Corporate finance or BFC2240: Equities and investment analysis and could shed some light on them? I'm looking at taking some Commerce electives next year and was wondering if anyone knew any other similar units to the former, I don't mind if they're at Caufield (secretly, going to Caufield sounds like fun).

[tcg93]

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Old threads but still relevant. Used to be AFC rather than BFC but only the code should have changed, not the subject.

But from my POV, BFC2140 is a good unit to have for non-finance students, if you are just looking for one finance unit to do. Mainly calculations, but with some theory. Not very difficult.  Try to get Au Yong as a lecturer, she is really good.

Haven't done 2240 but heard it is very dry.

Not sure if Caulfield units are good, but remember Commerce electives can only be Clayton BusEco units. If you want to do a Caulfield BusEco unit, they would contribute to your open electives!

Hope that helps!

[Rohmer]

Both stock standard finance units for any university. I did them when they were named AFC2140 and AFC2240, although they're still the same units, but with new codes - check the User Reviews Forum on the old codes btw. Corporate Finance is basically all about companies and how they finance various things - e.g. their research projects, their decision to pay dividends, decisions about issuing bonds. As I recall, It doesn't cover any of the mergers and acquisition stuff (which is done in advanced corp fi.). It has a fair balance between calculation type questions and theory. It's an ok unit, runs fine, but I never found it particularly interesting. Personally I thought Equities was better. It basically deals with share investments - what is the optimal portfolio to have, what does a fund manager do, behavioural finance stuff that affects investor decisions, theories of explaining share prices etc. It's of a similar difficulty to BFC2140.

[EspoirTron]

Thanks everyone! I just wanted to take a relatively straight-forward Commerce unit which is not too difficult as an elective. Corporate Finance sounds like a good option

[publicbin]

Corporate finance was quite fun, it was the first 2nd year unit I did and it was moderate difficulty.

Equities was my third or so 2nd year finance unit. It was really easy and insanely boring. Some concepts even overlapped with corporate finance. I ended up doing worse in it than corp finance, just because of how boring it was. If you had to pick one over the other, corporate finance is the way to go!

With that said, if you do Equities and Investments alongside Pensions, you can get some finance certificate called RG 146.

[citizen]

hey guys

i've looked through all aforementioned threads and other ones, but i can't seem to find any reviews/feedback on the subject:          BTX3130 - Stock exchange and derivatives law

It's offered as a summer subject in feb, but i haven't heard any feedback about it/don't know anyone that has done it.

any help would be much appreciated