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Executive Management Education Programme -09 (eMEP-09)
Financial Management - IInstructor: Abhilash S. Nair Hours:
27
Telephone: (0495) 2809248 email: [email protected]
Course Background
Financial Management, as one of the functional areas of business
management, concerns
basically with managing the cash flows of the entire business.
Hence by implications, atthe operational level, it manifests as a
supportive function; but at the corporate level, it
assumes strategic importance as it is charged with the
responsibility of maximizing thevalue of the firm. This course is
structured in order to study both these aspects.
The course will mainly focus on the three key corporate
financial decisions viz., theInvestment decision, the Financing
decision and the Dividend decision. Besides the three
key corporate finance decisions, the course will also cover some
advanced issues in
valuation, issues related to mergers and acquisitions,
international finance and risk
management.
Learning Outcomes
The course aims at developing a clear understanding of the
concepts and techniques
involved in managing the finance function of a corporation.
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
Analyse relevant factors that have bearing on the investment,
financing and
dividend decisions.
Discuss the issues involved in value based management.
Identify the issues involved in mergers, acquisitions and
corporate valuations.
Determine the managerial actions relating to risk management and
international
financial management.
Assessment
Quizzes 30%End Term 50%
Assignments 20%
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Readings
Text Book
Prasanna Chandra, Financial Management: Theory and Practice, 6e,
TMH, New Delhi
Reference Books
Pandey, I M, Financial Management, 9e, Vikas Publishing House,
New Delhi (IMP)Brealey and Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance,
7e, T MH, New Delhi (BM)Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe, Corporate
Finance, 7e, TMH, New Delhi (RWJ)
Aswath Damodaran, Corporate Finance, John Wiley and Sons,
Singapore (AD)
IM Pandey and Ramesh Bhatt, Cases in Financial Management, 2e,
TMH, New Delhi(PB)
Session Plan
No. Of
Sessions
Topic Text/Reading/Case/Exercise
2 Time Value of Money Text : Chapter 6
Exercise Problems : 22, 26, 27, 29 to 31Minicase at the end of
the chapter.
2 Financial System Text : Chapter 2
Risk and Return Text : Chapter 8
Exercise Problems : 3 to 5, 82 Cost of Capital Text : Chapter
14
Exercise Problems : 2,8,11
Minicase at the end of the chapter.
2 Techniques of Capital
Budgeting
Text : Chapter 11
Exercise Problems : 1, 2
2 Estimation of Project Cash
Flows
Text : Chapter 12
Minicase at the end of the chapter
2 Replacement Decision Case : Mechanical Drying Equipment
Ltd.
(PB)
2 Some Issues in Capital
Budgeting
Text : Chapter 13
2 Capital Structure and Firm
Value
Text : Chapter 19
Exercise Problems : 5,7,8
Capital Structure Decision Text : Chapter 20 (Sections 20.1 to
20.4)
Exercise Problems : 1,3,4
2 Leasing as a source of
Financing
Class Notes
Leasing Case : Vishal Engineering Ltd.
