VSFS:BA_CF_1 Corporate Finance 1 - Course Information

BA_CF_1 Corporate Finance 1

Extent and Intensity

2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Guaranteed by

Ing. Eva Kostikov, Ph.D.
Department of Finance – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dita Egertová

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand the principles of operational management of an enterprise;
- understand the importance of company's ownership and capital structure for financial decision making
- understand the relations between planning, production volume, costs and profit
- explain a definition of the operational and strategic planning in a company
- acquire knowledge of the individual steps in financial planning
- understand the supply process in a company

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to understand/calculate each of the following terms:
• overview of financial management
• provide a general framework for studying the field of corporate finance
• develop a definition of financial management and explore each element of the definition in detail
• functions and primary goal of financial analysis and its methods how they evaluate the financial performance of the company
• position of financial managers which attempt to achieve wealth maximization through daily activities such as credit and inventory management and through longer-term decisions related to raising funds
• different methods of financial evaluation of the company and their usage in practice

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction to Corporate Finance
• 2. Financial Reports
• 3. Financial Analysis
• 4. Comprehensive evaluation of the financial situation and performance of the company
• 5. Working Capital
• 6. Investment Capital
• 7. Capital Structure
• 8. Operating Leverage
• 9. Receivable management
• 10. Cash Flow Management
• 11. Break even point
• 12. Corporate Finance A1 Review

Literature

required literature
• BLOCK, Stanley B., Geoffrey A. HIRT a Bartley R. DANIELSEN. Foundations of financial management. Seventeenth Edition. Dubuque: McGraw-Hill Education, [2018]. ISBN 978-1260013917.

recommended literature
• BERK, Jonathan B a Peter M DEMARZO. Corporate finance: the core. In: . 2017. ISBN 978-1-292-15833-4.
• HITCHNER, James R. Financial valuation workbook: step-by-step exercises and tests to help you master financial valuation. In: . [2017]. ISBN 978-1-119-31247-5. MDT
• MODIGLIANI, Stephen A. Ross Franco, WESTERFIELD, Randolph W. and JORDAN, Bradford D., 2016. Essentials of Corporate Finance. 9 edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-1-259-27721-4.
• WATSON, Denzil a Anthony HEAD. Corporate finance: principles and practice. In: . 2016. ISBN 978-1-292-14424-5.
• WELCH, Ivo. Corporate finance. 4th ed. United States: Ivo Welch, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9840049-2-8.
• BRIGHAM, Eugene F. Financial management: theory and practice. 16th edition. Boston, MA: Cengage, 2019. ISBN 978-1337902601.

Teaching methods

PS: (full time students)
Classes for present studies will be combination of theory and practical application: 2 hours per week of lectures and 2 hours per week of seminars (2/2). Students should attend 75% of online seminars as a minimum.

Assessment methods

Credit:
- sequence of online quizzes, online assignments and present them online on seminars, homeworks (30% of total evaluation) - active participation in classes otherwise extra assignment Exam:
- credit is needed before registering for the exam
- written test and oral examination (70% of the total evaluation)

Language of instruction

English

Follow-Up Courses

• BA_CF_A2 Corporate Finance A 2

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 16 hodin KS/semestr.

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