Financial Management
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
- Convenor and tutor: Dr Christine Guo
- Prerequisites: Quantitative Methods, Microeconomics for Business and Introduction to Accounting
- Assessment: a one-hour test (30%) and three-hour examination (70%)
Module description
In this module we introduce you to the international world of capital markets and explore the theory of financial management and its role, purpose and function in business. You will also learn about the financial system and financial instruments, including:
- how finance can be raised from within the business and distributed
- how the cost of capital is determined
- how to apply principles underlying the valuation of business and financial assets.
You will also have the chance to broaden your skills and knowledge of project appraisal, working capital management and advanced capital investment appraisal techniques. The main techniques employed in managing financial risk are also covered.
Indicative syllabus
- Investment appraisal
- Portfolio theory
- CAPM and cost of capital
- Working capital management
- Business valuations
- Efficient market hypothesis
- Capital structure theory
- Dividend policy
- Finance for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs)
- Risk management
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- understand financial managers' investment, financing and dividend policy decisions
- apply principles of business and asset valuations
- make sensible capital investment appraisals
- apply working capital management techniques
- appreciate the application of the Markowitz Portfolio Theory
- deploy a working knowledge of the capital structure theory and dividend policy of a firm
- understand the theory of mergers and acquisitions
- explain and apply risk management techniques.