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BUST10012: 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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ACADEMIC YEAR 2026 - 2027

University	University of Edinburgh
Course Code	BUST10012
Course Name	Corporate Finance
SCQF Credits	20
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	35

Prepare with confidence for the Corporate Finance (BUST10012) final exam at the University of Edinburgh with this complete set of notes. It explains how the exam is marked and structured and shows you the types of questions to expect. Inside you will find exam-style questions with step-by-step solutions, plain explanations, and final-exam hints and tips. All content targets the exam: format overview, key marking points, timing guidance, and model solutions.

This is a course on empirical research in mainstream topics in corporate finance, for example debt policy, dividend policy, the financing of companies, corporate governance, and the effects of family ownership and private equity.

Honours Corporate Finance considers aspects of the financial management, financing and governance of companies believed to be of academic interest and practical importance. The aims are to introduce students to current thinking and empirical research on the chosen topics, and to develop skills of understanding, analysis and explanation. The course builds on the finance and accounting learned earlier in the degree programme, and so it assumes some knowledge of companies and financial reporting, and concepts such as discounted cash flow and the cost of capital. The course adds to students' knowledge mainly by examining empirical research on the topics studied. Research in corporate finance is a social science, the aim of which is to understand about value creation and financial decision-making as observed in the corporate sector. Students will learn about the current state of knowledge on each topic studied and about how research in corporate finance is conducted, through studying the research design and contribution to knowledge of carefully selected papers.

Pre-requisites: Students MUST have passed: Principles of Finance (BUST08003) OR Introduction to Corporate Finance (BUST08030).

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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