FINANCE

Key concepts:

- Time Value of Money
- Valuing shares and long-term financing
- Valuing bonds and long-term debt
- The trade-off between risk and return
- Risk, return and the CAPM
- Capital budgeting I: Capital budgeting process and decision criteria
- Capital budgeting II: Cash flow and capital budgeting
- Cost of capital: Risk and capital budgeting
- Capital Structure
- Payout policy

Must demonstrate:
- identify and communicate the primary objectives and fundamental principles of financial management and corporate financial decision making
- evaluate and apply analytical techniques for making financial decisions
- demonstrate critical analysis, problem solving and creative thinking
- make best use of technologies to find, use and disseminate financial information
- give examples of corporate financial decision problems faced (this should show the use of financial analysis tools/techniques used) it should emphasize that I retrieved and critically analysed relevant financial information.
- emphasize experience in the types of financial decisions that need to be taken in order to create value within the firm beyond that which shareholders could create on their own which resulted in long term sustainability of the firm.
- decisions made using time-value-of money and risk-return analytics
- should include investment, financing, capital structure and payout decisions within the context of the Australian framework.

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Key concepts:
- BPM and Organisations
- BPM and Strategy
- BPM and I.C.T.
- BPM and Process Architecture
- BPM and Scope
- BPM Modeling
- BPM and ERP
- BPM Methodologies
- BPM and Service Industries
- BPM Measurement

Must demonstrate:
- Relate the principles and frameworks of BPM to the achievement of organisational strategies and goals via succinct recommendations I made. These solutions should include critical evaluations of the suitability of enterprise systems to enable BPM and change.
- Generate solutions to organisational problems using the tools and methodologies of BPM
- Critically evaluate the appropriateness of enterprise systems to enable BPM and change (how they were used to automate processes and report on the goals and objectives of the organisation)
- Design and deliver informed recommendations about process change to a variety of organisational audiences
- I should discuss a time when I presented summaries to stakeholders to encourage support for organisational change (both processual and strategical)
- This should include business diagrams and include these in the report.