VSFS:BA_FO Financing Organizations - Course Information
BA_FO Financing Organizations
University of Finance and AdministrationWinter 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1/0. 7 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Jana Kotěšovcová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. David Mareš, Ph.D., MBA (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Ing. David Mareš, Ph.D., MBA
Department of Finance – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Lenka Pokorná - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- BA_FO/cBMPH: each odd Tuesday 14:00–14:44 E227, each odd Tuesday 14:45–15:30 E227, J. Kotěšovcová
BA_FO/cCUPH: each odd Thursday 15:45–16:29 E024, each odd Thursday 16:30–17:15 E024, D. Mareš
BA_FO/pBMCUPH: Thu 17:30–18:14 E024, Thu 18:15–19:00 E024, except Thu 14. 11. ; and Thu 14. 11. 17:30–19:00 E122, D. Mareš - Prerequisites
- Subject of Financing Organizations explains the nature, advantages and disadvantages, costs and risks of classic and alternative external sources of company financing. The concept of the course builds on the following courses: Introduction to Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance and Corporate Planning.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- After completing the course, students will understand the financial relationship between the company and the various types of financial intermediaries. After completing this course, students will be able to use the knowledge and skills to offer a comparison of financial options and the relevant decisions in the company, and will be able to argue the strengths and weaknesses of each product and ensure adequate funding for the company's needs.
At the end of the course the student will be able to compare various sources of financing techniques, their advantages, disadvantages, cost and risk, as the financial system offers them to the corporate world of today. - Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, students will understand structure of capital in a corporation and the following sources of financing: - hidden internal sources - suppliers credit - bank loans - financial investors - strategic investors - securities - grants and government incentives
- Syllabus
- The course topics:
- 1. Introduction to the corporate financing: quick review of what we laready know
- 2. Why to borrow? Financial leverage
- 3. Bank loans
- 4. Other banking products: bank guarantee, letter of credit, IOU endorsement, hedging
- 5. Financial investments
- 6. Risk management: investor’s point of view
- 7. Business plan: essential tool to obtain financing
- 8. Strategic investments: mergers and acquisitions
- 9. Corporate shares and bonds
- 10. Trading on financial markets
- 11. Subsidies: EU and CZ grands, co-financing, incentives, non-profit organizations, sponsorship
- 12. Course review
- Literature
- required literature
- EHRHARDT, Michael C. and Eugene F. BRIGHAM. Financial Management: Theory and Practice. 13th Edition. Mason (Ohio, USA): South-Western, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-4390-7810-5.
- recommended literature
- WELCH, I. Corporate Finance. 2nd ed. ISBN 09840049-5-5 (available on-line at http://book.ivo-welch.info/ed2/toc.html)
- Teaching methods
- Type of teaching:
- Assessment methods
- Methods of assessment:credit test and exam test
- Language of instruction
- English
- 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: 10 hodin KS/semestr.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2019, recent)
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