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Financial Management: Course Outline

This document outlines the course objectives and topics for a Financial Management course. The objectives are to acquaint students with financial planning and analysis, efficient management of operating finances, tools for appraising investments, assessing investment risk and mitigation, and financing capital investments. The course covers topics such as an overview of financial management, financial statement analysis, valuation, working capital management, accounts receivable and inventory management, capital budgeting, long-term financing, dividend policy, and leverage and business risk. Recommended textbooks are also provided.

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Financial Management: Course Outline

This document outlines the course objectives and topics for a Financial Management course. The objectives are to acquaint students with financial planning and analysis, efficient management of operating finances, tools for appraising investments, assessing investment risk and mitigation, and financing capital investments. The course covers topics such as an overview of financial management, financial statement analysis, valuation, working capital management, accounts receivable and inventory management, capital budgeting, long-term financing, dividend policy, and leverage and business risk. Recommended textbooks are also provided.

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Course Outline
Course Objectives:
The feld of fnance is broad and dynamic. It directly afects the lives of
every person , every organiation!private, public, governmental and
non"governmental, business and not"for" proft#. This subject is the core
course for all the business education degrees such as $%, $&',$&(,
$.com, $%c.!'ccounting ) *inance#,$%c!e"commerce# C', IC$',
'CC', &%!commerce, 'ccounting, fnance, business administration
etc.#, &.Com. and a host of professional degrees+certifcate courses in
the feld.
*inancial management is concerned ,ith the duties of the fnancial
manager in thebusiness frm ,here he manages the fnancial afairs of
the business. The tas-s performed by a fnancial manager include
planning, e.tending credit to customers, evaluating proposed large
e.penditures, and raising money to fund the frm/ operations.
In recent years, the changing economic and regulatory environments
have increased the importance and thus comple.ity of the fnancial
management. It ,as need of the time to revise+update the course
contents of the subject so as to serve the follo,ing objectives:
" To ac0uaint the students about 1ros and cons of *inancial planning
and analysis
" To inculcate the ,ays and means ho, to manage the operating
fnancial activities of
an organiation e2ciently and in the most cost efective manner.
" To e0uip the students ,ith the tools and techni0ues for appraising
various
investment proposals.
"To give a fair enough -no,ledge in respect of assessing ris- in the
investment
underta-ings and ,ays to mitigate the ris-s up to the ma.imum level.
"To fnd the best possible fnancing mi. to fnance the proposed
investments.
"To e.plore ,ays other than ban- loans for fnancing capital
investments.
Topic
1
An overview of Financial Management
Types of Finance
*inance ,ithin the organiation
*orms of business organiation
Types of business organiations
*inancial management functions
$anagerial goals of the frm
Corporate and personal ta.
*inancial environment and the ir role in the
frm

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Topic
2
Financial lanning an! Anal"#i#
Financial Statement Analysis
Income statement
&alance sheet
Cash 3o, statement
4atio analysis
*orecasting *inancial %tatements
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Topic
3
$al%ation
The Time Value of Money and its
Application Book
Term structure of interest rates
5ominal and (fective Interest rate
'mortiation of loan
The Valuation of long-term Securities
6iferent valuation concepts
&ond 7aluation
1referred stoc- valuation
Common stoc- valuation
4ates of 4eturn !or 8ields#
1
Topic
&
'orking Capital Management
Working Capital terminologies and
issues
Operating cycle
Cash conversion cycle
'lternative current assets
Cash and Marketable Securities
Management
$otives for holding cash
%peeding up cash receipts
%lo,ing 6o,n Cash payouts
(lectronic Commerce
Investment in mar-etable securities
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Topic
9
Accounts Receiable and !nentory Management
Credit evaluation criteria
*ive C:s of credit
Credit policies
Collection polices
'ging of account receivable
Financing in current assets
%pontaneous fnancing
5egotiated fnancing
*actoring accounts receivable
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Topic
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Capital B%!geting an! E#timate! Ca#) Flow
Overvie, of capital budgeting process
(stimating project ;'fter"Te. incremental
operating cash 3o,s<
Capital &udgeting Techni0ues
1roject evaluation and selection: 'lternative
$ethods
4is- and $anagerial Options in Capital
&udgeting
&oo-
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Topic
*
Long+term Financing
Capital structure and cost of capital
Types of long"term debt instruments
&onds and their features
1referred stoc- and its features
Common stoc- and its features
6ual"class common stoc-
The "oans and "eases
?ong Term loans
$ortgage loan
%ubordinate
1rovisions of loan agreements
?ease *inancing and its reporting in fnancial
statements
?ease fnancing vs. debt fnancing
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Topic ,ivi!en! olic"
- 64I1s
*actor in3uencing dividend policies
%toc- dividend and stoc- split
%toc- repurchases
6ividend pay out policy.
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Topic
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Leverage an! /%#ine## ri#k
Operating leverage
*inancial leverage
Total leverage
Other methods of analysis.
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0ecommen!e! Book#1
!=# *undamentals of fnancial $anagement !latest edition=@th# by
(ugene *. &righum, Aoel B. Bouston
!@# *undamentals of *inancial $anagement, &y Aames C. 7an Born
!># *inancial $anagement, &y ?a,rence A. Citman

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