ED50A3: INVESTMENT ANALYSIS FOR ENERGY (CPD) (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58

Course Overview

Students will gain an understanding of what financial information is and how they can be used to form financing decisions. They will develop their technical knowledge and skills to enable them to record business transactions and prepare financial statements and they will be introduced to financial statement analysis and the calculation of key metrics. The course will also focus on explaining why companies behave the way they do with respect to financing choices and how this interacts with financial markets, with particular reference to the energy industries. The course covers Investment Appraisal Techniques Employed in Petroleum Industry, Risk Analysis, Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Session	Full Year	Credit Points	credits (0 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Nikolaos Vlassis

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Education (ED) (Studied)
Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

The aim of this course is to equip students with good analytical skills in order to understand the implications of corporate financing decisions and to enable students to understand the theoretical underpinnings of corporate finance theory.

To do so this course will help students to develop their:

knowledge of theoretical concepts of accounting
knowledge in the practice of accounting.
knowledge and understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of corporate finance theory.
practical skills that equip students with the ability to think rigorously, quickly and logically through a corporate financing problem.
intellectual skills by understanding why companies behave the way they do with respect to financing choices and how this interacts with financial markets.
communication, problem-solving and time management skills through the study of the theory and practice of corporate finance.

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

There are no assessments for this course.

Formative Assessment

self assessment workbook

Assessment Type	Formative	Weighting
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	general feedback through model answers

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Procedural	Analyse	understand and analyse theoretical concepts of accounting
Reflection	Create	create investment evaluation models using corporate finance theory and excel modelling
Reflection	Evaluate	Evaluate the theoretical underpinnings used in financial decision-making
Procedural	Understand	By participating in the course, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of basic financial concepts such as: present value, the opportunity cost of capital, investment d