Master
2023/2024
Strategic Financial Management
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Financial Strategies and Analytics)
Area of studies:
Finance and Credit
Delivered by:
School of Economics and Finance
Where:
Faculty of Economics
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Anna Bykova
Master’s programme:
Financial Strategies and Analitics
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
34
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is based on the students’ knowledge and skills that were obtained from such disciplines as Corporate Finance, Investment Analysis/Financial Analysis/Financial Modeling. The course consists of lectures (20 hours) and tutorials (32 hours). The tutorials involve task’s calculation, problems solving, case analysis and the individual assignment (project).
Learning Objectives
- The aim of the course is to develop the competencies in taking strategic financial decisions: forecasting cash flows, capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, developing financial and analytic models, creating a new approach to financial management based on the integrated value-based management both for financial and nonfinancial companies.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Identify and apply the mechanisms of strategic decisions in a competitive environment
- Plan and design competitive financial strategies
- Recognize and implement the principles of matching financial and business strategies
- Calculates key value-based indicators with real world data
- Identify the factors that contribute to and how to predict company failure
- Develop critical thinking/reasoning skills via a practical application of the above within an Applied Research Paper assignment (see course project)
