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BUS 212 Introduction to Finance: Reading list

BUS 212 Introduction to Finance


Department: BSc Business Management

Module Description:The aim of the module is to develop the student’s abilities to analyse and explain the fundamental financial theories and goals of financial management; identify the agency problem and ways to resolve it; explain the functions of financial markets and the modern financial instruments in use; evaluate investment decisions using discounted cash flow methods under the assumptions of certainty and to examine the role of risk and uncertainty in capital budgeting.


Module texts

  • Brealey, R. A., Myers, S. C. & Marcus, A. J. (2023). Fundamentals of corporate finance. 11th edn. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 10th edition available

  • Ross, S. A., Westerfield, R., Jaffe, J. F. & Jordan, B. D. (2022). Fundamentals of corporate finance. 13th edn. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education. 

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