TECHCOMM 7048 - Advanced Modelling and Communications

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2015

This course focuses on developing two core skills essential for entrepreneurship. The first is building a comprehensive financial model using an excel spreadsheet to produce an integrated pro-forma Cash Flow Statement, Income Statement and Balance Sheet. This is an essential skill necessary for preparing business planning documents and business case proposals for investors and other potential stakeholders. The second skill is to be able to present and communicate professional business plans in both written and verbal communication. Entrepreneurs are invariably under-resourced to undertake the new ventures they seek to create and hence communicating convincingly and confidently with investors, lead customers, partners and other key resource holders is often key to an entrepreneur's success. At the end of this course, a candidate will be able to: - Prepare an integrated financial forecasting model; - Incorporate a sensivity analysis within a proforma financial model identifying critical success factors for planning; - Design and prepare a business planning document including integrated financials; and - Prepare and pitch business proposals.

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Course Details

Course Code	TECHCOMM 7048
Course	Advanced Modelling and Communications
Coordinating Unit	Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation & Innov Centre
Term	Semester 2
Level	Postgraduate Coursework
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr Allan O'Connor

Program Director Contact Details:
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Name: Dr Allan O'Connor
Email: allan.oconnor@adelaide.edu.au

Teaching Staff

Semester 1
Name: Gary Edwards
Short Bio:

Gary is a speaker, consultant and coach who specialises in helping people to communicate more effectively in challenging situations. He is a former lawyer and spent 7 years with the University of South Australia training law graduates in communication, advocacy, negotiation and conflict resolution. He has worked extensively with the SA Police on education programs and in conflict resolution, including research with police hostage negotiators. Gary runs his own business, Leading Conversations, and works with many clients in the public and private sectors in the areas of leadership, sales, presentations, conflict resolution, collaboration, negotiation and influence.

Email: gary.edwards@adelaide.edu.au

Name: Christine Hahn
Short Bio:

Christine has broad commercial and financial experience across diverse industries in the public and private sectors as both Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Christine's business experience has encompassed strategic and operational functions having been responsible for major change including revenue growth; restructure; mergers and acquisitions; sale/divestments and cost containment. Christine has raised equity and debt funding as well as been successful in multi-million dollar government grant applications.

Christine now consults to emerging companies advising businesses on improvement and growth opportunities, financing, preparation of strategic and business plans and assistance with implementation.

Christine's other business interests include appointment as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Finance Committee of a not-for-profit Board in the disability sector and owner/Director of a Barossa horticultural and viticultural business.

Christine holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accountancy from the South Australian Institute of Technology (now University of South Australia) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (now Financial Services Institute of Australasia).

Christine is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Recent teaching experience at the University of Adelaide includes Tutor in the second year Bachelor of Commerce subject "Small and Family Business Perspectives" and Lecturer "Wine Business Management", part of the Masters in Wine Business. Christine also acts as a Facilitator in the Capstone subject of the Chartered Accountants Programme.

Christine co-wrote the new subject Advanced Venture Planning and Communications with Gary Edwards, offered for the first time in 2016.

Email: christine.hahn@adelaide.edu.au

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Opening intensive:
Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th September 2015
9am to 6pm
Nexus10 UB35 Seminar room 2B

Closing intensive:
Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th October 2015
9am to 6pm
Nexus10 UB35 Seminar room 2B

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Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

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