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Financial Management and Decision - Making

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 154-0301/10
Abbreviation FŘR
Course title Financial Management and Decision - Making
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Finance
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Miroslav Čulík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Principles of financial management and decision-making
2. Methods and approaches of the company´s financial performance assessment
3. Financial analysis of a company
4. Pyramidal decomposition, influence quantification and prediction models
5. Company´s capital structure, costs of capital, models for cost of capital determination.
6. Capital structure optimization.
7. Capital budgeting – objective, principles, stages, categorization of investments. Project´s cash flow prediction.
8. Investment project evaluation.
9. Analysis of risk factors of investments. Assessment and selection of mutually exclusive investments.
10. Capital sources of a company. Rules for assets financing. Comparison and selection of optimal source.
11. Dividends and dividend policy of a company.
12. Financial planning.
13. Company valuation.

Literature

BROOKS, Raymond. Financial Management: Core Concepts. Pearson; 4th edition, 2018. 656 pp. ISBN 978-0134730417 .
HIGGINS, Robert. Analysis for Financial Management. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2018. 464 s. ISBN 0077861787 .
KINICKI, Angelo et al. Management: A Practical Introduction. McGraw-Hill Education; 7th edition, 2022. 672 pp. ISBN 978-0078029547 .

Advised literature

BRIGHAM, Eugene a Michael EHRHARDT. Financial Management: Theory & Practice. Cincinnati, USA: South-Western College, 2019. 1180 p. ISBN 130563229X .
HILLIER, David. Corporate Finance. London: McGraw-Hill, 2020. 1118 p. ISBN 9781526848086 .
LUMBY, Stephen, Chris JONES. Corporate Finance: Theory & Practice. London: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2021. 752 p. ISBN 978-1844809462 .