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Corporate Financial Management A

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 154-0335/02
Abbreviation FŘFA
Course title Corporate Financial Management A
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Finance
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Ing. Dana Dluhošová

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to the financial management – goals, principles, relationship between profitability and liquidity, financial management matrix.
2. Time value of money and risk in financial management of a company – risks classification, approaches to risk elimination and reduction.
3. Risk management – risk measurements, risk analysis of investment projects.
4. Capital budgeting – definition, investment strategies, investment classification, stages of investment process.
5. Investment projects valuation – estimation of parameters of investment projects, (cash flows, cost of capital, life-span, net present value).
6. Rules for investment project valuation – with respect to time (static, dynamic).
7. Rules for investment project valuation – with respect to the benefits for company.
8. Long-term financing of a company. Description of internal sources of company financing.
9. External sources of company financing – shares, bonds, bank loans. Pluses and minuses of particular sources. Tax shield.
10. Leasing – legal and tax aspects of leasing, types of leasing, advantages, disadvantages.
11. Other external sources of company´s capital - forfaiting, project financing, risk capital.
12. Financial planning – fundamentals, rules for financial planning, relationship between business and financial plan, structure of financial plan.
13. Short-term and long-term financial planning.

Literature

BROOKS, R.: Financial Management: Core Concepts. Addison Wesley, 2009.
BRINGHAM, E.F.: Financial Management: Theory and Practice. South Western College, 2008.
TENNENT, J. Guide to Financial Management. Bloomberg Press , 2008.

Advised literature

BLOCK, S.B., HIRT, G.A.: Foundations of Financial Management. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
MOYER,R.CH., McGUIGAN, J.R., RAO, R.P. Contemporary Financial Management. South-Western College Pub, 2011.
TITMAN, S., MARTIN, J.D., KEOWN, J.A. Financial Management: Principles and Applications. Prentice Hall, 2010.