Overview

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Financial Management is an interesting area of learning for the management graduates, working professionals, chartered accountants and similar other professionals working in the related areas. Investment and financing decisions in the business are quite complex and risky and require a detailed analysis and investigations before finalizing any investment proposal by any existing or a new business organization/firm. Further, it involves complex capital structure related decisions, working out cost of capital and ways and means about maximizing the value of the firm. Finalizing any investment proposal, arranging for the required amount of funds from different sources of finance and deciding the optimum capital structure are some very complex and peculiar decisions that need a strong background of finance and financial management for the decision makers in the industry. Value maximization being the ultimate objective of any business, requires learning about rigorous and thorough investment decision making and evaluation process which may be facilitated after learning about the tools and techniques of financial management. In this subject I will discuss all about the investment, financing and dividend decisions process in the business firms and the process of value maximization of any business firm. INTENDED AUDIENCE : B. Com, BBA, M. Com, MBA, MFC, CA, ICWA, CS, Working professionals in the area of finance.PREREQUISITES : NilINDUSTRY SUPPORT : All companies working in any area would value this course

Syllabus

Week 1 : Financial management-an overview, Financial decisions in the firms, the fundamental principles of finance, goals of financial management, building blocks of modern finance.Week 2 : Risk-return trade off, Organization of finance functions, Emerging role of financial managers’ in India, Over view of financial statements – Income statement, Balance Sheet, Cash flow statement, Analysis of financial statementsWeek 3 : Financial Planning & forecasting, Tools & techniques of Financial Planning & Forecasting, Sources of finance.Week 4 : Time Value of Money, Future value of a single amount, Present value of a single amount, Future value of Annuity, Present value of Annuity & PerpetuityWeek 5 : Capital Budgeting –Concept and overview, Capital budgeting process, Project classification, Techniques of capital budgeting, Investment criteriaWeek 6 : Net present value, internal rate of return, Modified Internal rate of return, Benefit cost ratio, Pay-back period methodWeek 7 : Accounting rate of return, Investment appraisal in practice, Estimation of project cash flows – overview, Estimation of project cash flows-tools & techniques, Estimation of project cash flows-tools & techniquesWeek 8 : Accounting rate of return, Investment appraisal in practice, Estimation of project cash flows – overview, Estimation of project cash flows-tools & techniques, Estimation of project cash flows-tools & techniquesWeek 9 : Break-even analysis, some other models and tools of risk analysis, Project selection under risk, cost of Capital-Overview, Cost of debt & preference capital.Week 10 : Cost of equity, Determining the proportions, WACC, WA Marginal cost of capital, Determining the optimum capital budgetWeek 11 : Capital structure of firms-An overview, Net income approach, Net operating income approach, Traditional proposition, MM PropositionWeek 12 : Dividend decisions-An overview, Relevance of dividend, Dividend policy formulation, Dimensions of divined policy, Legal & procedural aspects of dividend decisions