Course detail
Corporate Finance
FP-fpPAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course focuses on the following topics: fundamentals of corporate finance (basic concepts of corporate finance, objects of corporate finance, corporate finance management roles, ..), financing of entrepreneurship (the classification of financial resources, financing and risks, internal and external financial resources, specific forms of corporate finance), business needs (forms of business needs, determinants of business needs, the time structure of business needs, planning of business needs ..).
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Requirements for awarding of credit:
Two Example tests: The student takes two example tests from which he/she can earn a maximum of 60 points. Test 1: Week 7 (max. 30 points). Test 2: Week 12 (max. 30 points). Registration in information system is required. In total, the student can get a maximum of 60 points from the seminar. The student will be awarded the credit if he/she has at least 30 points from the seminar. A student who does not achieve the required number of points can write the final test in the extra term. The assessment from the seminars contributes to the overall assessment of the course.
A student who studies a subject according to the individal study plan (ISP) to obtain the credit takes a final test, which is agreed with the teacher in advance.
Examination requirements:
Knowledge is tested by a written examination. Only students who have applied for the examination in IS and have the credit entered will be allowed to take the examination. The examination is made up of open questions and closed questions with a choice of more correct answers. The examination lasts 50 minutes. There is a maximum of 40 points in the examination and a minimum of 20 points is needed to pass. The resulting assessment for the course is the sum of points from the seminars and the examination. The result is classified according to the ECTS scale. Incorrect or illegible answers are assessed as unsatisfactory.
Control of results of independent work on assigned tasks. Due to the epidemiological situation, the control of participation in the exercises will not be performed. The evaluation will be based only on partial inspection tasks.
Aims
Students will be able to identify individual needs according to the area of company activity, they will be aware of the financial backing of these needs, they will be able to define and apply internal and external resources for corporate financing, as well as methods of capital planning and methods of evaluation of the investment efficiency, methods of cash flow quantification, basic methods of management of the working capital.
Study aids
The teaching materials are published in the e-learning (collection of examples).
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
KISLINGEROVÁ, E. a kol. Manažerské finance, Praha: C.H.Beck, 2010. 864 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-194-9.
KORÁB, V.; REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M.; PETERKA, J. Podnikatelský plán v praxi. Brno:Computer Press, 2007. 216 s. ISBN 978-80-251-1605-0.
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M.; HEDIJA, V.; KARAS, M.; SÁGHY ESTÉLYI, K.; ŽIŽLAVSKÝ, O.: Finance podniku. Průvodce studiem pro kombinovanou formu studia. Brno, 2016 (elektronicky)
SCHOLLEOVÁ, H. Ekonomické a finanční řízení pro neekonomy. 3. aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-80-247-2424-9.
SRPOVÁ, J.; ŘEHOŘ, V. a kol. Základy podnikání. Teoretické poznatky, příklady a zkušenosti českých podnikatelů. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2010. 432 s. ISBN 978-80-247-3339-5.
Recommended reading
BROOKS, R. M. Financial management: Core concepts. 3rd edition. PEARSON, 2016. ISBN 978-0133866698.
MAREK, P. a kol. Studijní průvodce financemi podniku. 2. vyd. Praha: Ekopress. 2009. 634 s. ISBN 978-80-86929-49-1
VALACH, J. Investiční rozhodování a dlouhodobé financování. Praha: Ekopress, 2011. ISBN: 978-80-86929-71-2
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. The company and its mission
2. Contents of the company's finances, the company's founding budget
3. Fixed assets: Its use and acquisition
4. Fixed Assets: Methods for assessing the economic efficiency of investment projects
5. Inventory management
6. Receivables management
7. Internal sources of finance
8. External sources of finance
9. Lease financing
10. Enterprise cash flow
11. Financial resources of the enterprise: Choice of financing structure
12. Financial management according to the business life cycle
13. Reserve, recap.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Organisation of teaching, conditions for granting credit, founding budgets
2. Founders' budgets
3. Investment activity of the enterprise and methods of evaluation of investment projects.
4. Investment activity of the enterprise and methods of evaluation of investment projects
5. Inventory management.
6. Inventory management.
7. Intermediate test
8. Debt financing - loans with tax effect
9. Debt financing - loan vs. leasing
10. Cash flow (indirect method).
11. Cash flow (direct method)
12. Final test
13. Corrective test.
Elearning