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Corporate Financial Management A

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Course Unit Code154-0335/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
PrerequisitiesCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit Title
154-0300Finance
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
DLU30prof. Dr. Ing. Dana Dluhošová
RIH40Ing. Dagmar Richtarová, Ph.D.
GUR022Ing. Petr Gurný, Ph.D.
Summary
This course is devoted to the key issues of the financial management of a company, particularly long-term financing of a company from theoretical and practical point of view, capital budgeting, financial sources analysis and financial plan proposal.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The main aim of the subject is to deepen the knowledge in the area of financial management and decision-making by applying methods, anaysis and approaches obtained by graduating this course.
Students will be able:
- to undertake deeper financial analysis of a firm,
- to evaluate investment projects under different financing situations,
- to evaluate financial performance of a firm,
- to compare and evaluate financial sources of a firm,
- to propose financial plan of a firm,
- to evaluate a firm.
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
BREALEY, Richard a Steward MYERS. Teorie a praxe firemních financí. Praha: Albatros Media, 2013. 1072 s. ISBN 80-7187-150-8.
DLUHOŠOVÁ, Dana a kol. Finanční řízení a rozhodování podniku.Analýza, investování,oceňování,riziko,flexibilita,interakce. Jesenice: EKOPRESS, 2021. 257 s. ISBN 978-80-87865-71-2.
DLUHOŠOVÁ, Dana a kol. Finanční řízení a rozhodování. 3. vyd. Praha: Ekopress, 2010. 225 s. ISBN 978-80-86929-44-6.
FOTR, Jiří a Ivan SOUČEK. Podnikatelský záměr a investiční rozhodování. Praha: Grada, 2005. 356 s. ISBN 80-247-0939-2.

Recommended Reading:
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.
CLAYMAN, M. R., FRIDSON, M. S. a G. H. TROUGHTON. Corporate finance a practical approach. WILEY. 2008. 451 p. ISBN 978-0-470-19768-4.
FOTR, J.; SOUČEK, I. Investiční rozhodování a řízení projektů. Praha: Grada, 2011.
FOTR, J.; HNILICA, J. Aplikovaná analýza rizika. Praha: Grada, 2009.
RICHTAROVÁ, Dagmar a kol. Sbírka příkladů z finančního řízení a rozhodování podniku. EkF VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013. 208 s. ISBN 978-80-248-3169-5.
VALACH, Josef a kol.: Investiční rozhodování a dlouhodobé financování. Praha: Ekopress, 2010. 513 s. ISBN 978-80-86929-71-2.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
CreditCredit85 (85)85
        Zápočtový testWritten test85 85