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COMM 298: Introduction to Finance 
Comprehensive Revision Guide and Notes 2026 
 
- Part 01: Revision Notes 
- Part 02: Sample Examination 
- Part 03: Suggested Solutions to Exam Paper 
- Part 04: Study Tips for Students 
 
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COMM 298: Introduction to Finance - University of British Columbia

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026

University	University of British Columbia
Study Level	Undergraduate
Course Code	COMM 298
Course Title	Introduction to Finance
Notes Title	Comprehensive Revision Guide and Notes
Page Length	64

Built for COMM 298: Introduction to Finance at the University of British Columbia, this comprehensive guide helps you succeed across the course. 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.

This course offers an introductory exploration of finance and its foundational principles. We will construct a conceptual framework alongside quantitative tools to comprehend the operations of financial markets, as well as choices made by corporate managers and investors. Additionally, we will discuss the objectives of firms and distinguish between debt and equity instruments. Within the time value of money lecture, you will value streams of cash flows arriving at distinct time points. This method will be applied to value of bonds and stocks. Then, we will illustrate the concept of market efficiency. We will move then to discuss the relationship between risk and return in investments. This will involve the quantification of risk and return, the strategy of diversification, portfolio mathematics, and the introduction of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Subsequently, we will focus on the strategies corporate managers employ in managing a firm and making capital budgeting decisions, along with the guiding investment principles they apply. Shifting the focus to individual investors, we will analyze the decisions they make within the realm of personal finance. Lastly, we will briefly examine finance in a global context.

* Corequisite(s): COMM 293 and one of COMM 190, COMM 290 and one of COMM 295, ECON 301.

COURSE CODE	COURSE TITLE
COMM 191	Application of Statistics in Business
COMM 192	Management and Organizational Behaviour
COMM 293	Financial Accounting
COMM 294	Managerial Accounting
COMM 296	Introduction to Marketing
COMM 298	Introduction to Finance
COMM 353	Financial Accounting: Intermediate I
COMM 370	Corporate Finance
COMM 371	Investment Theory
COMM 393	Commercial Law
COMM 450	Financial Accounting: Intermediate II
COMM 474	Fixed Income Markets and Management
COMM 475	Investment Policy
ECON 101	Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 102	Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 301	Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis I
ECON 303	Intermediate Microeconomics II
ECON 325	Introduction to Econometrics I
ECON 326	Introduction to Econometrics II
ECON 345	Money and Banking
PSYC 218	Analysis of Behavioural Data
STAT 203	Statistical Methods
STAT 300	Intermediate Statistics for Applications
STAT 443	Time Series and Forecasting

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