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Financial Management

bbasemester 4

Financial Management

Subject Code: FIN 207

Course Title: Financial Management

Course No: FIN 207

Nature of Course: Theory & Practical

Full Marks: 100

Pass Marks: 40

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

This course is a core course in finance and includes the basic area of financial managementfunctions. It consists of introduction to financial management, analysis of financial statements,risk, return and portfolio theory, financial planning and forecasting,

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with concepts and principles of financialmanagement. This course has been structured as a compulsory course in finance.

Course Contents

Unit 1: Introduction 4 LHs
Concept and scope of financial management; Financial management decisions; Financialmanager’s responsibility; Forms of organizations; The agency problem; Business ethicsand social responsibility; Financial innovations

Unit 2: Financial Planning and Forecasting 6 LHs
Concept of financial planning and forecasting; Strategic plan; Operating plan; Financialplan, Sales forecast; The additional fund needed formula; Excess capital adjustments;  Forecasted financial statement: forecasted income statement and balance sheet; Usingregression to improve forecast

Unit 3: Capital Budgeting 8 LHs
Concept of capital budgeting decision; Capital budgeting decision process; Types ofcapital budgeting projects; Estimation of cash flows, Capital budgeting decisiontechniques:payback period, discounted payback period, net present value, profitabilityindex, internal rate of return, modified internal rate of return; merits and limitations ofeach capital budgeting decision technique, Replacement decision; Evaluation of projectswith unequal lives

 Unit 4: Risk, Return and the Portfolio Theory 6 LHs
Concept and measurement of return and risk, Measurement of rate of return: expectedand average rate of return; Measurement of risk: variance, standard deviation andcoefficient of variations: Measurement of risk and return in portfolio context; Riskdiversification; Minimum variance portfolio; Efficient portfolio; Optimal portfolio;Capital assets pricing model (CAPM)

Unit 5: Capital Structure and leverage 6 LHs
Concept of capital structure; Capital structure issues; Estimating the optimal capitalstructure; Factors affecting capital structure; Business risk and financial risk; Leverage:operating and financial leverage; Degree of operating and financial leverage;Combining operating and financial leverage, Impact of financial leverage; Indifferencecharts; Breakeven analysis: operating, cash and financial BEP

Unit 6: Current Assets Management  7 LHs
Concept of current assets management. Cash management: significance of cashmanagement, motives of holding cash, importance of maintaining adequate cash; Inventory management: significance of inventory management, objectives of holdinginventories, inventory management techniques, inventory control system; Receivablemanagement: significance of receivable management, cost of maintain receivables,elements of credit policy, evaluating proposed changes in credit policy

Unit 7: Dividend policy 5 LHs
Nature and types of dividend policy, Dividend versus capital gain; Dividendirrelevance theory; Bird in the hand theory; Tax preference theory; Factors affectingdividend policy; Stock dividends and stock splits: stock split, stock dividend, effect onstock price, Stock repurchase.

Unit 8: Multinational Financial Management 6 LHs
Nature of multinational corporations; Reasons for companies going global;Multinational versus domestic financial management; Exchange rates quotations;Cross rates; Interbank foreign currency quotations; Trading in foreign exchange rates:spot rates and forward rates; Interest rate parity; Purchasing power parity

Text Books

Brigham, E. F. & Houston, J. F. Fundamentals of financial management. Delhi: Cengage
Learning.
Ross, S. A., Westerfield, R. W. & Jordan, B. D. Fundamentals of corporate finance. New York:
McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Van Horne, J. C., Wachowicz, J. R. & Bhaduri, S. N. Fundamentals of financial management.
New Delhi: Prentice-Hall India Ltd.