Financial Management

Financial Management

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AIU HS

Description

The focus of this course is in the area of financial management. We will show managers how to interface with accounting and finance departments, help them to understand how firms meet their financial objectives utilizing financial decision-making. This course will also explain financial tools and techniques, which can be used to help firms maximize value by improving decisions relating to capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management. This course will deal with a number of related topics, including multinational financial management, risk management, mergers and acquisitions

Objectives

The main goal of this course is to develop a foundation of financial management concepts. This will enable to the student to understand how corporations make important investment and financing decisions, and how they establish working capital policies. The course also lays a foundation for more complex financial topics that arise in additional elective courses in finance. This course in financial management describes the corporation and its operating environment; it will help any future manager to understand how the finances of a company work, and how they will be interfacing with finance.

Course content

LessonLesson 1: The Goals and Functions of Financial Management

LessonLesson 2: Review of Accounting

LessonLesson 3: Financial Analysis

LessonLesson 4: Financial Forecasting

LessonLesson 5: Operating and Financial Leverage

LessonLesson 6: Working Capital and the Financial Decision

LessonLesson 7: Current Asset Management

LessonLesson 8: Sources of Short Term Financing

LessonLesson 9: The time Value of Money

LessonLesson 10: Valuation and Rates of Return