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Financial Management syllabus

FIN 5517 units · 32 topicsAcademic year 2083/84
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Financial Management

7 units

1. Financial Management and Environment (4 LHs)

  1. Financial Management
    1. Financial Management: Concept and functions, Objectives of corporation: Value maximization, value maximization and social welfare, Managerial action to maximize shareholder wealth
  2. Role of financial manager
    1. Role of financial manager
  3. Finance within an organization
    1. Finance within an organization
  4. Financial environment in Nepal
    1. Financial environment in Nepal: Financial securities, financial institutions, financial market
  5. Tax environment, Emerging trends in financial management and IT
    1. tax environment, Emerging trends in financial management and IT.

2. Financial Statement Analysis (5 LHs)

  1. SFinancial statements and reports
    1. sFinancial statements and reports
  2. Financial ratio analysis
    1. Financial ratio analysis: Liquidity ratios, asset management ratios, debt management ratios, profitability ratios, market value ratios
    2. Trend analysis
  3. Common size analysis
    1. Common size analysis
  4. Percentage change analysis
    1. Percentage change analysis
  5. The Du-Pont equation
    1. The Du-Pont equation
  6. Uses and limitations of ratio analysis
    1. Uses and limitations of ratio analysis.

3. Risk-Return and Portfolio Theory (5 LH)

  1. SReturns and risk
    1. sReturns and risk
  2. Risk in a portfolio context
    1. Risk in a portfolio context
  3. Efficient portfolio and efficient frontier
    1. Efficient portfolio and efficient frontier
  4. The Optimal portfolio
    1. The Optimal portfolio
  5. Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM)
    1. Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM)
  6. The Capital Market Line (CML) and Security Market Line (SML)
    1. The Capital Market Line (CML) and Security Market Line (SML).

4. Capital Structure and Cost of Capital (5 LHs)

  1. Raising long-term fund
    1. Raising long-term fund: long-term debt, Preferred stock and common stock
  2. Capital Structure and financial structure
    1. Capital Structure and financial structure
  3. The optimal capital structure
    1. The optimal capital structure
  4. Business bisk and financial risk
    1. Business bisk and financial risk
  5. Component cost of capital
    1. Component cost of capital
  6. Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
    1. Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC).

5. Investment Decision (5 LHs)

  1. Capital budgeting decision
    1. Capital budgeting decision: Concept and process. Estimating cash flows
  2. Evaluating the project
    1. Evaluating the project: Payback period, discounted payback period, net present value, internal rate of return, profitability index, modified internal rate of return using MS excel.

6. Dividend Decision (4 LHs)

  1. SDividends
    1. sDividends: Concept, types and payment procedures
  2. Residual dividend policy and dividend stability
    1. Residual dividend policy and dividend stability
  3. Stock dividends and Stock splits
    1. Stock dividends and Stock splits
    2. Stock repurchase.

7. Working Capital Management (4 LHs)

  1. Working Capital and working capital management
    1. Working Capital and working capital management: Concept, importance
  2. Factors affecting the size of working capital
    1. factors affecting the size of working capital
  3. The cash conversion cycle
    1. The cash conversion cycle
  4. Concept and significance of cash management, inventory management and receivable management
    1. Concept and significance of cash management, inventory management and receivable management.