Advanced Financial Management

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Advanced Financial Management focuses on the complex decisions facing a senior financial professional responsible for advising on strategic financial issues. The paper covers advanced investment appraisal, mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and sophisticated risk management techniques using derivatives. It builds the skills necessary to manage a company’s financial health and make high-stakes decisions to enhance shareholder value and execute corporate strategy effectively.

What You'll Learn (Curriculum)

Advanced investment appraisal techniques for complex capital projects.
Strategic decision-making on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reconstruction.
Detailed analysis of corporate financial strategy and dividend policy.
Evaluation of international parities and interest rate risk management.
The use of advanced derivatives (options, futures, swaps) for managing financial risk.

Course Index

18 chapters • 52h 24m

01. Faculty Intro
00:15:49
02. Intro to AFM
00:15:48
03. Index and Syllabus
00:15:12
04. Mastering Professional Skills
00:15:38

1. Financial objectives
00:16:46
2. Financial strategy formulation
00:17:35
3. Risk management decisions
00:22:40
4. Dividend decisions
00:37:56
5. Ethics
00:42:37
6.0 Integrated Reporting
00:04:47
6.1 Integrated Reporting
00:38:05

1. Financing decision
00:51:49
2. BETA and CAPM
00:55:53
2.1 Further aspects of CAPM and Beta
00:28:26
3. Cost of Debt
00:38:19
3.1 Bonds and WACC
00:26:25
4.0 Ratio Analysis
00:06:39
4.1. Ratio Analysis - Operating Ratios
00:35:07
4.2. Ratio Analysis - Liquidity Ratios
00:25:33
4.3. Levarage Rations
00:12:29
4.4. Issues with Ratios and Exam Tips
00:13:57
5. Risk Management
00:22:23
6. Behaviorial Fianance
00:23:47

01. Introduction to the Chapter
00:14:55
02. Time value of Money
00:51:57
05. Master Question
00:10:43
06. Money Real and Inflation Rates
00:47:56
07. Tax in NPV
00:39:32
08. WC in NPV
00:34:05
09.1 Capital Rationing
00:23:16
09.2 Multi Year Capital Rationing
00:14:36
11. Tax exhaustion and Comprehensive Question
00:53:24
12. Modified IRR
00:19:40
13. Project Duration
00:13:56
14. Value at Risk
00:44:27

03. Various periods of Cash flows
00:42:02
04. NPV and IRR
00:49:30
10. Risk and Uncertainity
00:58:50

01. Real Oprtions
00:21:48
02. Black Scholes Model
00:49:58
03. Value of Put Options - BSM
00:33:35
04. Limitations of BSM
00:06:17

01. Forex - Intro_Quotes_Risks
00:59:00
02. PPPT and IRPT
00:27:15
03. Fisher Effect
00:20:04
04. Evaluating international investments
00:25:24
05. Evaluating projects complications
00:40:39
06. International Financing decisions
00:27:26
07. Alternatives to international investment
00:10:37

01. Recap of Theories from FM
00:23:29
02. Other Theories
00:26:57
03. Investments that change financial risk
00:50:04
04. Investments that change business risk
00:25:24
05. Problem on Ungearing and Regearing
00:17:09

01. Yield Curve and Credit Risk
00:57:59
01.2 Extra Info about Credit Risk and Ratings
00:11:12
02. Duration of a bond
00:16:14
03. Sources of Finance - Recap
00:31:52
04. Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
00:15:38
05. Islamic Finance
00:15:42

01. The overvaluation problem
00:18:43
02. Approaches to business valuation
00:08:23
03. Asset�based models - Net asset value (NAV)
00:07:49
04. Asset�based models - Book value plus
00:12:34
05. Asset-based models � extra notes
00:06:12
06. Market-based models - PE Method
00:40:26
07. Market�based approaches � extra notes
00:03:50
08. Cash-based models - Dividend Based
00:32:10
09. Free cash flows and free cash flows to equity
00:26:31
10. Post-acquisition cash flow valuation
00:34:03
11. Adjusted present value
00:05:12
12. Valuing start-ups Black�Scholes (BSOP) model
00:19:00

01. Growth strategies
00:23:16
02. Acquisition targets
00:14:38
03. Reasons for failure of acquisitions
00:08:33
04. Reverse takeovers
00:11:02
05. Regulation of takeovers
00:24:26
06. Defense against a takeover
00:15:07
07. Consequence of different % stakes
00:05:16

01. Various types of Offers
00:15:13
02. Evaluating an offer
00:42:03
03. Impact of a given offer on the financial perfo
00:14:40

01. Treasury management
00:20:15
02. Treasury organization
00:18:01
03. Managing risk � using options
00:57:41
04. Other Greeks
00:06:17

01. Recap of Currency quotations
00:09:40
02. Hedging Strategies
00:50:42
03. Forex Futures - Advanced
00:37:50
04. Forecasting the futures rate and Basis Risk
00:26:44
05. Margins and marking to market
00:10:29
06. Money Market Hedging
00:49:33
07. Forex Options
00:27:12
08. Forex Options - Advanced
00:42:05
09. Comprehensive Question
00:37:53

01. Interest rate risk � introduction
00:25:08
02. Forward rate agreements (FRAs) � fixing the ra
00:21:17
03. Interest Rate Futures � Fixing the Interest Ra
00:53:14
04. Interest rate options � cap the interest rate
00:43:39
05. Interest rate collars
00:20:26
06. Interest Rate Swaps
00:32:18
07. Valuing interest rate swaps
00:48:24
08. Currency swaps
00:32:32
09. Swaptions
00:10:28

01. Financial reconstruction schemes
00:30:31
02. Financial reconstruction schemes for value cre
00:11:47
03. Debt covenants and forecasting
00:08:41

01. Unbundling
00:09:16
02. Divestment (sell-off)
00:11:55
03. Management buy-out (MBO)
00:26:16
04. Valuations
00:07:15

01. International trade
00:39:28
02. International institutions
00:26:03
03. Planning issues � dividend policy
00:22:04
04. Planning issues � transfer pricing
00:39:04
05. Planning issues � structure
00:17:14
06. Developments in international markets
00:12:16
07.1 Securitization and tranching
00:15:50
07.2 2008 Crisis
00:33:34
08. Tensions in the Eurozone, Dark Pool Trading
00:12:07
09. Money laundering
00:34:11

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