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BMAN10522: Financial Decision Making 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2026 
 
Part 01: Revision Notes 
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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University of Manchester - Financial Decision Making (BMAN10522)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	University of Manchester
Unit Code	BMAN10522
Credit rating	10
Unit level	Level 1
Unit Name	Financial Decision Making
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	64

Built for BMAN10522: Financial Decision Making at the University of Manchester, this comprehensive guide helps you succeed across the course unit. It explains essential topics in clear language with illustrations and fully worked examples to show each step. Alongside detailed notes, you’ll find examiner advice, practice questions with answers for every examinable area, and a full sample exam with solutions that mirror real test conditions. Use it to review key concepts, practise problem-solving, and plan efficient revision so you can approach graded work with confidence and aim for top marks.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to finance, giving a foundation for subsequent finance courses in the second and third years. The approach is conceptual, emphasizing general principles, which students should be able to apply to specific problems and issues. The course introduces some of the basic techniques of finance: calculating the time value of money; valuing bonds and shares, techniques for appraising capital investments; characterising share price behaviour and the role of risk in security valuation. The main focus of classes is on problem-solving in particular finance contexts, with some consideration of discursive material.

Introduction to finance
The time value of money
Capital raising and evaluation of securities
The firm's capital budgeting decision
Share price behaviour and informational efficiency
Security risk and return

By the end of the course, students should:

- have a basic knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of finance;
- know some of the basic techniques used in finance;
- have a basic understanding of the role of research in finance;
- can solve problems in a variety of contexts in finance;
- understand
- the time value of money
- how companies raise capital
- how to value bonds and shares
- the firm's capital budgeting decision
- the concept of informational efficiency and associated share price behaviour
- the relation between security risk and return.

UNIT CODE	UNIT NAME
BMAN10001	Economic Principles: Microeconomics
BMAN10101	Principles of Marketing
BMAN10501	Financial Reporting
BMAN10512	Introductory Management Accounting
BMAN10522	Financial Decision Making
BMAN10552	Fundamentals of Finance
BMAN10621M	Fundamentals of Financial Reporting
BMAN10872	Introduction to Work Psychology
BMAN20072	Investment Analysis
BMAN21011	Financial Markets and Institutions
BMAN21040A	Intermediate Management Accounting
BMAN21020A	Financial Reporting and Accountability
BMAN23000A	Foundations of Finance A
BMAN23000B	Foundations of Finance B
BMAN30091	Financial Derivatives
BMAN30111A	Advanced Corporate Finance
ECON10072A	Advanced Statistics
ECON10221	Microeconomics 1
ECON10232	Microeconomics 2
ECON10241	Macroeconomics 1
ECON10262	Macroeconomics 2
ECON30370	Econometrics
ECON31031	Advanced Econometrics
PSYC10100	Research Methods and Statistics
PSYC21061	Statistics and Data Analysis
SOST10062	Introductory Statistics for Economists

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