ØABED3000 Corporate Finance Course description

The assessment is a four-hour written exam based on the course curriculum.

In case of failed exam or legal absence, the student can apply for a new or postponed exam. New or postponed exams are offered within a reasonable time span following the regular exam. The student is responsible for applying for a new exam within the time limits set by OsloMet and the Faculty of Education and International Studies. Regulations for new or postponed examinations are available in Regulations relating to studies and examinations at OsloMet.

No examination support material permitted.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The students has

• broad knowledge of key topics in corporate finance, including: theories, tools and methods within the field
• understanding of the role of corporate finance in society

Skills

The student is able to

• apply professional knowledge and relevant results from research to practical and theoretical issues in order to take informed decisions
• to reflect on their own professional practice (in finance or non-finance profiles)
• to find, evaluate and refer to information and use it to shed light on basic finance issues
• to use basic professional tools and techniques

General competence

The student

• has insight into relevant professional and ethical issues related to finance
• is able to plan and carry out varied work tasks and projects that extend over time, alone and as a participant in a group
• is able to convey key theories, problems and solutions both in writing, orally and through other relevant forms of expression
• is aware of new thinking and innovation trends present in the field

The course activities will include:

• topics and learning activities that will be covered each week:
  • either at home before the lecture (FLIP) or
  • in the classroom/zoom/streaming (CZS) during the lecture,
• tools/inputs to use (EXCEL)

As a general idea, students will be asked to prepare some theoretical and/or practical material every week. Then, during the lectures (CZS), students are expected to actively participate and to generate discussion in the different learning activities (e.g., practical exercises, case/paper discussion, presentations), and should be prepared to work in teams as part of the learning process. When cases are discussed during lectures or as part of the coursework (CW), students can expect to get a partial solution to the case when the discussion is over.

The teaching is coordinated with ØABED4000.

The exam will be jointly marked by an internal and an external examiner. The external examiner will read a selection of the exam papers and collaborate with the internal examiner in a way that benefits all the students.

The course will cover key issues of international development assistance as it is currently organized. It will focus on processes and trends internationally and in recipient countries. Focus will be on the way aid is organized and implemented today. These issues will be illustrated through empirical case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The following themes will be included:

• Key actors in development assistance (non-traditional donors, multilateral organizations, for-profit actors)
• Aid and the Sustainable Development Goals (with an emphasis on health and education)
• New modalities of aid (budget support and performance-based aid)
• The "environmentalization", "securitization" and "marketization" of aid
• The effects of aid for recipient countries

The following aids are permitted:

• Excel
• All handwritten and printed support material
• Calculator (see regulations for the use of calculators in the programme description)

Grade scale A - F

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.