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Financial Management (661)
Credits: 3
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Virtually all the activities of business firms and
other organizations are reflected in, and affected by, the availability of
funds. Finance provides one of the major tools for managerial planning and
control. Course 661 provides a wide exposure to the financial issues useful to
general management. It offers you an in-depth study of business, finance,
investment, money and capital markets. Specific skills designed to aid in these
decisions are developed and utilized in analysis of actual business problems.
Students will master the principles of money and credit, acquire knowledge of
financial institutions, instruments and policies, attain skills in recognizing
and solving financial problems, and develop their skills in analyzing the risk
and financial returns in specific situations. Financial Management is the
applications of economic principles to the operation of an organization.
Subjects covered include:
| Introduction: The Goals and Functions of Financial Management and a
Review of Accounting |
The Capital Budgeting Decision |
| Financial Analysis |
Risk and Capital Budgeting |
| Financial Forecasting |
Capital Markets |
| Operating and Financial Leverage |
Investment Banking: Public and Private Placement |
| Working Capital and the Financing Decision |
Long-Term Debt and Lease Financing |
| Current Asset Management |
Common and Preferred Stock Financing |
| Sources of Short-Term Financing |
Dividend Policy and Retained Earnings |
| The Time Value of Money |
Convertibles, Warrants, and Derivatives |
| Valuation and Rates of Return |
External Growth Through Mergers |
| Cost of Capital |
International Financial Management |
| Increase Your Understanding of |
. Finance
. Investment
. Money & capital markets
. Risk and rates of return
. Multinational finance
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| Improve Your Ability to |
. Apply the principles of money and credit
. Use instruments and policies
. Analyze risk and financial returns
. Target capital sources
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Professor: Gene Murabito, B.S., M.B.A.
Text: "Fundamentals of
of Corporate Finance", Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus,
McGraw-Hill
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