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BUST08030: Introduction to Corporate Finance

Final Examination Guide and Notes 2026

Part 01: About This Guide

Part 02: Sample Final Examination Paper

Part 03: Suggested Solutions to Final Exam Paper

Part 04: Final Examination - Hints and Tips

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BUST08030: Introduction to Corporate Finance (Solutions)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2026 - 2027

University	University of Edinburgh
Course Code	BUST08030
Course Name	Introduction to Corporate Finance
SCQF Credits	20
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	36

Get ready for Introduction to Corporate Finance (BUST08030) at the University of Edinburgh with this clear, exam-focused set of notes. It explains how the final exam is marked and structured and shows the question styles to expect. Inside are exam-style questions with step-by-step solutions, clear explanations, and final-exam hints and tips, plus guidance on format, key marking points, timing, and model solutions.

The course aims to develop a student's understanding of the key principles of finance with a focus on corporate finance. It builds, extends and develops on the course content of Introduction to Financial Markets (BUST08029), which is the pre-requisite course.

Introduction to Corporate Finance is designed to provide students with a fundamental knowledge and understanding of corporate finance including an understanding of some of the key analysis tools used within the subject. The course has a quantitative slant and is designed to give a theoretical introduction to corporate finance decisions and policies. As such, the course covers some key aspects of corporate finance principles and theory. These include key corporate finance topics such as the financial evaluation of investment decisions (capital budgeting), the cost of capital, how firms raise finance and the sources of finance, the capital structure decision and the dividend policy.

✔ On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Describe and discuss the key aspects of corporate finance theory.
Discuss critically the contribution of finance theory to financial practice.
Understand and apply some of the key analysis tools used within corporate finance.

COURSE CODE	COURSE NAME
ACCN08007	Accountancy 1A
ACCN08008	Accountancy 1B
ACCN08009	Accountancy 2A
ACCN08012	Accounting for Business 1
BUST08003	Principles of Finance
BUST08004	Marketing
BUST08005	Business Economics
BUST08018	Applications of Finance
BUST08029	Introduction to Financial Markets
BUST08030	Introduction to Corporate Finance
BUST08033	Introduction to Data Analysis
BUST10012	Corporate Finance
BUST10023	Futures and Options
BUST10032	Investment and Securities Markets
ECNM08004	Economic Principles
ECNM08016	Statistical Methods for Economics
ECNM10052	Essentials of Econometrics
ECNM10056	Applications of Econometrics
ECNM10069	Topics in Macroeconomics
ECNM10070	Topics in Microeconomics
MATH08051	Statistics
PPLS08001	Research Methods and Statistics

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