Course detail

Financial Management for Informatics

FP-RfmiKAcad. year: 2023/2024

Methods of evaluating the performance of the company and inter-company comparison.
Strategic financial management:
- Place in business management, business content, information requirements
- Strategic investment decisions
- Strategic financial decisions
- Information security strategic financial decisions
Operational financial management:
- Management of solvency
- Credit management - creation and maintenance of databases
- Inventory management - management models
- Short-term investments - cash management models, automated systems liquidity management, cash pooling
- Short-term financial planning - information support, modeling financial plan

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Mária Režňáková, CSc.

Department

Institute of Finances (ÚF)

Entry knowledge

Successful completion of the course is conditional on the knowledge of accounting, financial mathematics and business economics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS:
Student have to achieve at least 50% of the possible number of points.
Exam is classified according to ECTS scale.


Attendance at lectures is not compulsory, but is recommended.

Aims

The aim of module is:
• highlight the importance of defining financial targets, and to familiarize students with different ways to define them;
• provide information about measurement methods of defined target;
• develop students' awareness of the possibility of external financing (financial market) and factors (criteria) influencing decisions about the using of financial resources;
• present the approaches used in the Capital Planning and assessing the economic efficiency of investment projects;
• highlight the potential risks in the financial and investment decisions and its minimization.
For successful completion of the module, the graduate should:
1) know:
• orientate oneself on the sources of corporate financing and know methods of assessing benefit funding sources;
• know the appropriate criteria for evaluation of results (performance) of corporation and implement them in the IS business;

2) be able to do
• Identify and use relevant information from the accounting and financial markets to monitoring the financial situation of the company and creating financial plan;
• Implement methods to evaluate efficiency of investment projects in IS business;

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BRIGHAM, E.R., EHRHARDT, M.C. Financial Management. Tudory and Pracitice, 12. ed. Ohio: South-Western.
FOTR, J. Strategické finanční plánování. Praha: Grada, 1999. 149 s. ISBN 80-7169-694-3.
VALACH, J. Investiční rozhodování a dlouhodobé financování. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: Ekopress, 2005. 465 s. ISBN 80-86929-01-9.

Recommended reading

KISLINGEROVÁ, E. a kol. Manažerské finance. 2. vyd. Praha: C.H.Beck, 2010,811 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-194-9.
KISLINGEROVÁ, E., HNILICA, J. Finanční analýza krok za krokem. Praha: C.H.Beck. 2008. 135 s. ISBN 978-80-7179-713-5
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. a kol. Řízení platební schopnosti podniku. Praha: Grada, 2010. 200 s. ISBN ISBN 978-80-247-3441-5
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. Efektivní financování rozvoje podnikání. Praha: Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-1835-9
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. Finanční management,1. a 2. díl. 3. vyd. Brno: CERM, 2005.
SYNEK, M., KOPKANĚ, H., KUBÁKOVÁ, M. Manažerské výpočty a ekonomická analýza. Prha: C.H.Beck, 2009, 301. ISBN 978-80-7400-154-3

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR-KS Master's

    branch MGR-ŘEP-KS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

16 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Mária Režňáková, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Company financial management. Aspects of strategic financial management. Content of financial management during different business life cycle phases. Company financial goals.
2. Financial analysis.
3. Financial planning.
4. Investment decision making. Risks of investment projects.
5. Financial strategy - capital structure optimization.
6. Company solvency management. Net working capital management
a. Credit management. Discount.
c. Cash management. Foreign exchange risk management.