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Semester III
Introduction to Financial Management
Unit 1: Overview of Financial Management • Concept, nature, and scope of inancial management • Financial goals: pro it maximisation vs wealth maximisation • Role and functions of a inancial manager • Financial decision-making process • Relationship of inancial management with other functional areas of business
Unit 2: Time Value of Money
• Concept and importance of the time value of money • Present value and future value concepts • Techniques of compounding and discounting • Applications in investment decision-making • Annuities and perpetuities
Unit 3: Sources of Finance
• Classi ication of sources of inance: equity, debt, and hybrid instruments • Features and evaluation of short-term, medium-term, and long-term inancing • Public issue, rights issue, private placement • Venture capital and angel inancing • Role of inancial institutions in India
Unit 4: Ratio Analysis
• Introduction to inancial statements • Importance and uses of ratio analysis • Types of ratios: pro itability, liquidity, solvency, and ef iciency • Limitations of ratio analysis
Unit 5: Working Capital Management
• Concept, types, and importance of working capital • Factors in uencing working capital requirements • Management of cash, receivables, and inventory • Working capital inancing • Operating cycle analysis f f f fl f f f f f f f f f f Semester IV Financial Decisions Unit 1: Investment Decision • Concept of capital budgeting • Techniques of investment appraisal: NPV, IRR, Payback Period, Pro itability Index • Risk and uncertainty in investment decisions • Cost of capital: concept and components
Unit 2: Financing Decision
• Capital structure theories: Net Income, Net Operating Income, Traditional, and MM Hypothesis • Determinants of capital structure • Leverage: operating, inancial, and combined • Cost of capital and its importance in inancing decisions
Unit 3: Dividend Decision
• Concept and importance of dividend policy • Theories of dividend decisions: Walter, Gordon, and MM Hypothesis • Types of dividends: cash and stock dividends • Factors a ecting dividend policy
Unit 4: Foreign Exchange Exposure
• Concept of foreign exchange and currency markets • Types of foreign exchange exposure: transaction, translation, and economic exposure • Techniques to manage foreign exchange risk: hedging, forward contracts, and options • Role of RBI in foreign exchange regulation
Unit 5: Advanced Topics in Financial Management
• Behavioural inance: an introduction • Financial modelling basics • Financial markets in India: structure and participants • Ethical considerations in inancial decisions f ff f f f f
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