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Financial Management (2)

Course Code :
FIN 468
Level :
Undergraduate
Course Hours :
3.00 Hours
Department :
Department of Finance'

Instructor information :

Title:Associate Professor
Name: Heba Mohamed Mohamed Srour
Office hours:2-Hours

Title:Teaching Assistant
Name: Farah Mostafa Ismail Elsayed
Office hours:-Hours

Area of Study :

This course is one of the obligatory courses in Finance and Management majors. This module will deal with advanced topics in Financial Management. The decision-making in corporations and different institutions include the investments and financing decisions in both the long-term and the short-term. For the long term investment decisions different techniques for capital budgeting will be discussed, while the financial decisions in the long-term will concern with the cost of capital, leverage, capital structure and dividends policy topics. On the other hand the short-term financial decisions will relate to working capital and current assets management topics.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Financial Management (2)

This course emphasizes the importance of certain topics taught in the Fundamentals of Financial Management course and also deals with a few Intermediate topics in Corporate Finance: capital structure, dividend and working capital management practices of companies, the valuation of bonds and stocks, capital budgeting problems, and the process for determining capital structure.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Financial Management (2)

Course outcomes:

a. Knowledge and Understanding:

1-	Define the main concepts of finance, understand key investment concepts and theories, and know how managers make long-term investment decisions?
2-	Discuss leverage, the optimal capital structure, breakeven analysis and the effect of changing costs on it
3-	Understand cash payment dividend payment procedures, the tax treatment of dividends, and the role of dividends reinvestment plans

b. Intellectual Skills:

1-	Apply their knowledge to understand the size, structure, and composition of the depository institutions, insurance companies, securities firms and investment banks, mutual funds, and finance companies
2-	Apply logical thinking to understand short-term financial management, net working capital and the related tradeoff between profitability and risk.

c. Professional and Practical Skills:

1-	Use the Internet to acquire relevant financial information
2-	Acquire skills to use Excel to perform financial decisions analyses.

d. General and Transferable Skills:

1-	Assess problems.
2-	Interact efficiently with others.

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Financial Management (2)

Course topics and contents:

Topic	No. of hours	Lecture	Tutorial/Practical
Introduction	4	3	1
Cost of Capital	4	3	1
Capital Budgeting Techniques	4	3	1
First Mid-term Exam	4	3	1
Working capital and Current Assets Management	4	3	1
Current liabilities Management Payout Policy	4	3	1
Capital structure	4	3	1
Capital structure and firm value	4	3	1
Second mid-term exam	4	3	1
Dividend Payout Policy	4	3	1
Dividend Payout	4	3	1
Hot topics in finance	4	3	1
Revision week	4	3	1

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Financial Management (2)

Teaching And Learning Methodologies:

Teaching and learning methods
Data show and computer in lectures.
Group discussion
Self-learning

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Financial Management (2)

Course Assessment :

Methods of assessment	Relative weight %	Week No.	Assess What
1st Midterm	20.00	6	assess understanding, intellectual and general skills.
2nd Midterm	20.00	11	assess understanding, intellectual and general skills.
Assignments	5.00	0	assess theoretical background of the analytical and intellectual skills
Final Exam	40.00	16	assess Knowledge and Intellectual skills
Group Projects and attendance	10.00	0
Quiz	5.00	0	assess theoretical background of the analytical and intellectual skills

For further information :

Telephone: 16383 (16FUE)
E-mail: [email protected]

Financial Management (2)

Books:

Book	Author	Publisher

Course notes :

Handouts.

Periodicals :

The Economists, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Financial Management Journal, Business Horizon and the Wall Street Journal on a regular basis