Course Title: Introduction To Financial Management

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6011 Advanced Diploma of Engineering (Aerospace)

Course Title: Introduction To Financial Management

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

BUSM6116

City Campus

TAFE

130T Vocational Engineering

Face-to-Face

Term2 2010,
Term2 2011

Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email: engineering-tafe@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide training at the paraprofessional level to enable participants to describe the processes of financial management in their enterprise, to perform relevant calculations and to prepare a budget for their enterprise.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

EB023 Introduction to Financial Management


Learning Outcomes

1. Define the accountant’s role and the accounting process.
2. Describe the financial tools available to management.
3. Define and explain the function of key financial terminologies.
4. Describe the characteristics of an overhead and the bases for allocation of overhead expenses and calculate overhead recovery rates.
5. Describe the information required to effectively manage a business enterprise and a profit centre within an enterprise.
6. Define and apply production efficiency ratios.
7. Prepare key financial and accounting reports.
8. Explain the purpose and function of a budget.
9. Calculate break even point for a given project in monetary value and units.
10. Evaluate the various sources of finance available to an enterprise.
11. Identify reasons for a company’s inability to collect all debts and demonstrate an understanding of how its credit policy can be efficiently controlled.
12. Demonstrate an understanding of the financing of capital equipment.


Overview of Assessment

To successfully to complete this course the student is required to pass written assessment tasks and demonstrate skills and ability by completing practical tasks.