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Financial Management

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Financial Management is centred on the practical application of finance techniques to manage, fund, and value a business. This paper equips students with the skills to make critical financial decisions, including investment appraisal (capital budgeting), business valuations, and working capital management. It is about maximizing shareholder wealth through sound financial policy, understanding sources of finance, and managing financial risk.

What You'll Learn (Curriculum)

  • The role and purpose of the financial management function and the financial environment.
  • Techniques for working capital management, including inventory, receivables, and payables.
  • Investment appraisal techniques (NPV, IRR, etc.) to evaluate capital expenditure projects.
  • Different sources of finance and the computation of the cost of capital.
  • Principles and methods for business valuation and managing financial risks (e.g., foreign exchange).

Course Index

23 chapters • 40h 12m
  • 01. Faculty Intro
    00:15:49
  • 0. Introduction to FM
    00:17:10
  • 1.1 Functions of FM
    00:17:27
  • 1.2 Functions of Financial Management
    00:38:34
  • 1.3 Functions of FM
    00:34:55
  • 2.1 Basic Inv Appraisal and ROCE
    00:50:54
  • 2.2 Payback Period
    00:43:14
  • 3.1 Time value of Money
    00:51:57
  • 3.2 Various periods of Cash flows
    00:42:02
  • 3.3 NPV and IRR
    00:49:30
  • 3.4 Master Question
    00:10:43
  • 4.1 Money Real and Inflation Rates
    00:47:56
  • 4.2 Tax in NPV
    00:39:32
  • 4.3 WC in NPV
    00:34:05
  • 5.1 Lease vs Buy
    00:26:11
  • 5.2 EAC and Replacement
    00:21:41
  • 5.3 Capital Rationing
    00:23:16
  • 6. Risk and Uncertainity
    00:58:50
  • 7.1 Intro to Working Cap
    00:16:50
  • 7.2 Working Cap Ratios
    00:28:35
  • 8.1 Inv Mgt - EOQ
    00:47:36
  • 8.1.2 Recap of 8.1
    00:10:30
  • 8.2 Inv Mgt - Vol Disc
    00:15:20
  • 8.3 Reorder Level and JIT
    00:20:31
  • 9.1 Credit Policy and Discount Policy
    00:40:59
  • 9.2 Factoring and Bills Discounting
    00:31:11
  • 9.3 Payables Management
    00:16:23
  • 10.1 Cash Management - Models
    00:49:54
  • 10.2 Cash Budgets - R and P Model
    00:57:47
  • 10.3 Forecasts from SOFP
    00:12:43
  • 10.4 Forecasts from working capital
    00:24:46
  • 10.5 Short term Borrowings and Investments
    00:34:41
  • 10.6 Short term vs Long Term funds
    00:26:16
  • 11.1 Economic Environment - Intro
    00:41:06
  • 11.2.1 Monetary Policy - Part 1
    00:26:49
  • 11.2.2 Monetary Policy - Part 2
    00:04:17
  • 11.3 Fiscal Policy
    00:18:10
  • 12.1 Financial System and Markets
    00:29:00
  • 12.2. Money Market
    00:33:30
  • 12.3 Derivatives
    00:45:21
  • 12.3.2 Futures Trading
    00:06:33
  • 12.4 Secondary Market Characteristics
    00:20:20
  • 12.5 Capital Markets
    00:24:05
  • 12.6 Fianancial Institutions
    00:24:08
  • 12.7 Treasury Function
    00:16:48
  • 13.1 Forex - Intro_Quotes_Risks
    00:58:59
  • 13.2 PPPT and IRPT
    00:27:15
  • 13.3 Fisher Effect
    00:20:04
  • 13.4 Forex Hedging Forwards Futures
    00:50:42
  • 13.5 Forex Options
    00:27:12
  • 13.6 Money Market Hedging
    00:49:33
  • 14.1 Interest Risk and Yield Curve
    00:34:33
  • 14.2 Interest Risk and Hedging
    00:46:28
  • 15.1 Intro and Short term Funds
    00:25:46
  • 15.2 Long term Sources Equity
    01:00:51
  • 15.3 Long term debt leasing and venture capital
    00:38:21
  • 15.4 SME Financing
    00:20:41
  • 15.5 Islamic Finance
    00:15:42
  • 16.1 Dividend Theories
    00:34:09
  • 16.2 Dividend Policy Questions
    00:04:59
  • 17.1 Cost of Capital and DVM
    00:37:47
  • 17.2 Gordons Growth
    00:22:19
  • 17.3 CAPM
    00:33:49
  • 17.4 Cost of Debt
    00:33:59
  • 17.5 WACC
    00:24:11
  • 18.1 Capital Structure and Leverage
    00:27:54
  • 18.2 Theories of Capital Structure
    00:22:28
  • 18.3 WACC and CAPM
    00:29:53
  • 18.4 Degearing and Regearing Problem
    00:08:28
  • 1. Ratio Analysis - Operating Ratios
    00:35:07
  • 2. Ratio Analysis - Liquidity Ratios
    00:25:33
  • 3. Levarage Rations
    00:12:29
  • 4. Issues with Ratios and Exam Tips
    00:13:57
  • 5. Non Financial Perf Measures and Not for Profit
    00:24:10
  • 20.1 Business valuations
    00:34:56
  • 20.2 Earnings based and Cash flow based
    00:33:48
  • 20.3 Value of Debt and Preference Shares
    00:42:42
  • 20.4 Market Efficiencies
    00:26:04
  • 13. HGR�CO
    00:26:47
  • 16. PNP�PLC
    00:32:34
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