MGT201 : Financial Management

Course Overview

Course Synopsis

The purpose of this course is to enable you to understand the financial decision making process and to interpret the impact that financial decision will have on value creation. This course, therefore, introduces you to three major decision making areas in financial management - the investment, financing and asset management decisions.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course you should be able to:

  • Recognize the contents and uses of financial statements.
  • Explore how key financial ratios are used to assess the financial health of a firm.
  • Recognize how forecasting is used to make financial decisions
  • Understand the language of finance by learning definitions of commonly used financial terms.
  • Evaluate different investment proposal keeping in view the concept of time value of money, risk and returns.
  • Valuate different types of securities such as common stocks, preferred stocks and bonds.
  • Assess the financial viability of capital investment projects.
  • Identify the sources and types of funding available to businesses along with the benefits and costs of each source.


Course Calendar

1 Module-1: Scope of Financial Management (Topic # 001-012)

2 Module 2: Financial Environment (Topic # 013- 022)

3 Module 3: Time Value of Money (Topic # 023- 052)
Assignment 01

4 Module 4: Valuation of Long Term Securities (Topic # 053- 072)
Quiz 01

5 Module 5: Financial Analysis Tools (Topic # 073-112)
Quiz 02

6 Module 6: Cash Flow Analysis (Topic # 113- 126)
GDB

7 Module 7: Risk and Return (Topic # 127 - 144)

8 Module 8: Working capital Management (Topic # 145 - 162)

9 Module 9: Capital Budgeting Techniques (Topic # 163-185)

10 Module 10: Cost of Capital (Topic # 186-199)

11 Module 11: Capital Structure (Topic # 200-216)

12 Module 12: Financial and Operating Leverage (Topic # 217-228)

13 Module 13:Dividend Policy (Topic # 229-256)