Financial management

This module enables you to use corporate financial theory and apply it to problems faced by financial managers and corporate decision makers.

At the end of the course you will have an appreciation of the financial management and control process in firms. The focus is on areas of long‐term investment, working capital management and financial decisions.

It will help you to understand the investment and financial decision making process in a corporation.

Finally, it will present the nature and complexity of the financial management process, especially approaches taken by firms to cope with the problem of risk.

Likely topics:

• fundamentals of financial management
• project appraisal under risk and uncertainty
• financing the capital budgeting decision
• management and control of capital investments
• principles of working capital management
• management of accounts receivable, cash and investments
• short and medium term financial decisions
• corporate valuation
• corporate restructuring (including takeovers and divestments)
• managing acquisitions and post acquisition performance
• introduction to risk management instruments.