FI2004: Finance 2: Business Finance

FI2004: FINANCE 2: BUSINESS FINANCE (2024-2025)

Last modified: 20 Jun 2025 15:06

Course Overview

The main aim of this course is to develop a sound understanding of fundamental principles underlying the theory and practice of finance, thereby providing a strong basis for further study of advanced finance theory and cognate disciplines. The course introduces students to important concepts in finance: principles of assets pricing, concept of risk and return, theory of interest rates and pricing fixed income securities, evaluation of investment project with a focus on embedded real options. It equips students with good analytical skills in order to understand the implications of financial decisions by understanding the fundamentals that govern them.

Course Details

Study Type	Undergraduate	Level	2
Term	First Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Weihao Han

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

Either Programme Level 2 or Master Of Arts In Finance (SCNU)
Any Undergraduate Programme
One of FI1004 Finance 1: Finance, Risk and Investment (Passed) or PO1002 Finance, Risk and Investment (Passed) or Master Of Arts In Finance (SCNU)

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

This course is about business finance. It focuses on the methods companies use to invest in real assets and how they fund those investment decisions. The course highlights the major players in financial markets and describes the models used by financial managers to make capital investment decisions and how to make decisions on the funding of those investments. Business financial decisions frequently involve enormous sums of money. Understanding the theoretical underpinning of those important decision making problems adds to your knowledge about recent developments in modern finance and methods to achieve good financial practice.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	30
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	2 x MCQ tests (15% each) Detailed feedback on a question by question basis for the class tests including statistics on the overall performance by question of the whole class.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Exam

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	70
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Factual	Remember	ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide.

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