S_FIP_1 Corporate finance I

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
summer 2019
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Pavel Rousek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Pavel Rousek, Ph.D.
School of Expertness and Valuation – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Supplier department: School of Expertness and Valuation – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Timetable of Seminar Groups
S_FIP_1/S01: Fri 9:40–11:10 D616, P. Rousek
Prerequisites
FORMA ( P )
Basic knowledge of accounting, financial management, and business economics.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives supported by learning outcomes
Students learn to work with input data form controlling and other supporting activities. They understand meaning of data and manages to change them into inputs for decision making. Graduates of the course understand financial expression of internal relations of a company and relations of company to the its environment. They understand companies' property, capital and personnel structure.
Learning outcomes
Graduate of the course: 1. Understands the role of financial manager in an enterprise. 2. Determines the value of money over time. 3. Understands the role of the enterprise's working capital (tactical financial decision-making) 4. Optimizes business cash flow. 5. Optimizes the flow of inventory in the enterprise. 6. Manages enterprise receivables. 7. Understands an investment project. 8. Evaluates investment alternatives in terms of their financial impact. 9. Understands the impact of human resources management on company finances. 10. Predicts future business development costs. 11. Understands strategic financial decision-making. 12. Optimizes the company's capital structure. 13. Optimizes the ownership structure of the enterprise. 14. Understands the role of financial and capital markets.
Syllabus
  • 1. Role of financial manager in a company. Relation between controlling and corporate finances. Work with data
  • 2. Time value of money, relation of risk and revenues
  • 3. Inventory management
  • 4. Cash management, cash flow management
  • 5. Receivables management
  • 6. Long-term assets and investment decision making – static methods
  • 7. Long-term assets and investment decision making – dynamic methods
  • 8. Financial impact of getting new employees. Financial impact of education and development current employees
  • 9. Cost models
  • 10. Financing using equity
  • 11. Financing using debt
  • 12. Strategic financial decision making and optimization of capital structure of a company
  • 13. Financial and capital markets
Literature
    required literature
  • ALLEN, Richard A., Stewart C. BREALEY a Franklin MYERS. Principles of corporate finance. 11. ed., global ed. New York: NY: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. 889 s. ISBN 978-0-07-715156-0.
Forms of Teaching
Lecture
Tutorial
Teaching Methods
Frontal Teaching
Brainstorming
Critical Thinking
Student Workload
ActivitiesNumber of Hours of Study Workload
Daily StudyCombined Study
Preparation for the Mid-term Test26 
Preparation for Lectures26 
Preparation for the Final Test52 
Attendance on Lectures26 
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion26 
Total:1560
Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
Test – mid-term 30 %
Test – final 70 %
Exam conditions
Valuation consists of the first test (30 - 0 points) and the second test (70 - 0 points). The final grade is a sum of points got from the first and second tests. Grades: A 100 – 90, B 89,99 – 84, C 83,99 – 77, D 76,99 – 73, E 72,99 – 70, FX 69,99 – 30, F 29,99 - 0.
Language of instruction
Czech
Teacher's information
Attendance in lessons is defined in a separate internal standard of ITB (Evidence of attendance of students at ITB). It is compulsory, except of the lectures, for full-time students to attend 70 % lesson of the subjet in a semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2018, winter 2019, summer 2020, summer 2021, winter 2021, summer 2022, winter 2022, SUMMER 2023, winter 2023, summer 2024, winter 2024.
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