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Financial Management

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Course Unit Code545-0148/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
VAN74doc. Ing. Michal Vaněk, Ph.D.
ROL74Ing. Markéta Laštůvková, Ph.D.
Summary
Students will be introduced to the basic concepts of financial company decision and corporate finances. There will be also discussed the financial analysis of business, its profitability, debt and liquidity and various intergration business forms and their financial aspects.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The aim of the subject is to present students to the mining company, its financial decisions and the optimal financial structure. There are also described specifications of industrial and financial markets, their effects on corporate finances, sources and forms of short-term financing, working capital and its finance and the valuation of mining and industrial enterprises.
Course Contents
1. Characteristics of mining company and corporate finances
2. Life phases of company, its goals and functions
3. Types of industrial companies and their characteristics
4. Financial company decisions - short and long
5. Effects of financial and industrial markets and corporate finances
6. Optimal financial structure, debt ratio and its indicators
7. Financial analysis of business - analysis of profitability, liquidity
8. Organization srtucture of a mining company
9. Personal income taxes, tax of property, value added tax
10. Stock company - the establishment, stock, dividend policy
11. Working capital and its finance
12. Valuation of the enterprise as a whole
13. State revenues from mining companies
14. Intergration business forms and their financial aspects
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
SAMUELS, J, F WILKES a R BRAYSHAW. Financial management and decision making. London: International Thomson Business Press, 1999. 632 s. ISBN 1-86152-101-4.
SCULLEY, Arthur B. a W. William A. WOODS. B2B exchanges: the killer application in the busines-to-business internet revolution. New York: HarperBusiness, c2001. ISBN 0-06-662108-9.
BROOKS, Raymond. Financial management: core concepts. Third edition. Boston: Pearson. Pearson series in finance. ISBN 978-1-292-10142-2.
HELFERT, Erich A. Techniques of financial analysis: a guide to value creation. 10th ed. Boston: Irwin/McGraw-Hill. Irwin/McGraw-Hill series in finance, insurance, and real estate. ISBN 0-07-229988-6.
RŮČKOVÁ, Petra a Michaela ROUBÍČKOVÁ. Finanční management. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2012. Finanční řízení. ISBN 978-80-247-4047-8.
VESELÁ, Jitka. Investování na kapitálových trzích. 3. vydání. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7598-212-4.
BROOKS, Raymond. Financial management: core concepts. Third edition. Boston: Pearson, [2016]. Pearson series in finance. ISBN 978-1-292-10142-2.
Recommended Reading:
HIGGINS, Robert C. Analysis for financial management. 10th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2012. 459 s. ISBN 978-0-07-803468-8.
TAMVAKIS, Michael N. Commodity trade and finance. Second edition. New York: Informa Law from Routledge. Grammenos library. ISBN 978-0-415-73245-1.
ALEXANDER, Carol. Market risk analysis. Volume III, Pricing hedging and trading financial instruments. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-99789-5.
MALLIN, Chris A. Corporate governance. Fifth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19871802-4.
HRDÝ, Milan. Dlouhodobý finanční management. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7598-318-3.
SEDLÁČEK, Jaroslav. Finanční analýza podniku. 2. aktualiz. vyd. Brno: Computer Press, 2011. ISBN 978-80-251-3386-6.
RŮČKOVÁ, Petra. Finanční analýza: metody, ukazatele, využití v praxi. Praha: Grada, 2019. ISBN 978-80-271-2633-0.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 (30)17
                Semestrální projektSemestral project30 17
        ExaminationExamination70 (70)34
                Ústní zkouškaOral examination70 34