Strategic Finance Management (GRAL006)

Course code:
GRAL006
ECTS:
6
Teaching language:
English
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Course description

This is an introductory course created to introduce the students with no financial or accounting background to the main concepts of managerial finance required for occupying a leadership position. The course intends to provide students with an overview of business finance concepts, terminology, and principles. It covers both theoretical and empirical aspects of financial analysis, capital investment, valuation, and financing decisions. The course develops understanding of the business organization as a value-maximizing entity, and introduces students to the necessary theoretical models as well as practical tools for financial decision-making. The course is designed to develop the insights and skills that are necessary to analyse and structure financial information of a business firm, to value investment projects, and to support value-adding business decisions.

Course results

  • Demonstrate and apply critical understanding of the main financial measures of the value and its elements;
  • Compare different long- and short-term financing decisions;
  • Gain skills to perform financial analysis of a business company using its financial statement data and applying financial ratios;
  • Apply the concept of time value of money in solving various financing problems, and evaluate investment projects using different methods (NPV and its alternatives);
  • Adhere to the principles of professional ethics in financial decision making.

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