Course detail

Basic Elements of Financing

FP-ZFAcad. year: 2018/2019

The aim of the subject is to provide students with the basic of corporate financial management. Moreover, the aim is to introduce the students with possibilities of financing the business, assessing the current state of corporate economy and assissing the financial worthiness of the planned investment project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Mária Režňáková, CSc.

Department

Institute of Finances (ÚF)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

The knowledge of financial statements, business and economic terminology, the knowledge of mathematical functions

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course contains lectures that explain principles, decisions problems and methodology of the discipline, and exercises that promote the practical knowledge of the subject presented in the lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The credit requirements:
a) An active participation in the classes.
b) The seminar test: The student is expected to pass a test in the end of semester, the test will be focused on examples. In case of test assesment over 17.5 point the students will pass succesfully the test (while the maximum assesment is 35 points).
In case of failure, there is a chance to take a resit.
The overall subject assesment: The assesment of the seminar is a part of the overall subject assesment. The final exam is focused on verification both the theoretical and practical knowledge of the student. The final exam is written and twith an time limit of 1 hour. There are multiple choise question - differently difficulty, examples and open-ended questions in the final test.
The maximum assesment of the final test is 65 points.
For succesfully passing the subject a minumum of 50 per cent of the final test is required.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the subject is to provide students with the basics of financial management. To do so, it is necessary to cope with the modern approaches in defining the business needs, defining the possible sources of finance, moreover to manage the current methods of evaluating the asset and financial structure of the businesss, methods of capital budgeting and investmens evaluation and above that the topic dealing with the cash flow and working capital management.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The maximum number of absences in the seminar is two. The way of apology for an absence is in the line with BUT regulations.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BROOKS, R. M. Financial management: Core concepts. 3rd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2016. 619 p. ISBN 978-0-133-86669-8 (EN)
KORÁB, V. a REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. a PETERKA, J. Podnikatelský plán. Brno: Computer Press, 2007. 216 s. ISBN 978-80-251-1605-0. (CS)
MAREK, P. a kol. Studijní průvodce financemi podniku. Praha: Ekopress, 2006. 624 s. ISBN 80-86119-37-8. (CS)
SRPOVÁ, J., ŘEHOŘ, V. a kol. Základy podnikání. Teoretické poznatky, příklady a zkušenosti českých podnikatelů. Praha: Grada Publishing. 2010. (CS)

Recommended reading

FOTR, J. Podnikatelský záměr a investiční rozhodování. 2. přepr. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005. 356 s. (CS)
KISLINGEROVÁ, E. a kol. Manažerské finance. 2. přeprac. a rozš. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2007. 745 s. ISBN 978-80-7179-903-0. (CS)
NÝVLTOVÁ, R., MARINIČ, P. Finanční řízení podniku. Moderní metody a trendy. Praha: Grada, 2010. 204 s. ISBN 978-80-247-3158-2. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-MIn Bachelor's

    branch BAK-MIn , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Michal Karas, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the subject. Company as a part of the financial system.
2. Founding budget. Production factors and its consumption.
3. Working capital management - inventories and receivables. The asset life cycle in the company.
4. Capital budgeting - budgeting capital income and expenditures. Methods of assesing the investment projects. .
5. Financing business - internal souces of finance.
6. Financing business - short-term souces of finance.
7. Financing business - long-term souces of finance.
8. Cash flow of the company – income, expenditure, methods of assesing the cash flow statement
9. Financial goals of the company and its evaluation. The procedure of analysing financial statements.
10. Differential indicator analysis. Financial ratio analysis - part 1
11. Financial ratio analysis - part 2
12. Company profitability and capital structure analysis
13. Indicators of overall financial health of the corporate

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Michala Strnadová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Content of the Subject. Requirements. Basics of Financial Mathematics (interest).
2. Basics of Financial Mathematics (saving, annuity).
3. Loans. Building society accounts.
4. Methods of stock's intrinsic value determination. Bonds valuation - duration, convexity, risk, return, yields.
5. Seminar work presentation.
6. Test.