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Course: 2024/2025

Financial Management

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Bachelor in Statistics and Business (Plan: 400 - Estudio: 203)

Coordinating teacher: MAYORAL BLAYA, SILVIA

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 3º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Finance I

Objectives

Objective: To introduce the different financial assets and its applications. Skills: 1.- To understand the idea of a firm as an investment portfolio 2.- The concept of Cost of capital 3.- Stockholders' compensation Learning results: 1.- Critical understanding of the financial decision problem. 2.- To determine the optimal capital structure of a firm.

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1. The financial decision problem. 2. The capital structure of a firm. 3. Firms' valuation: a first approach. 4. The cost of capital 5. The cost of investment projects. 6. Shareholders' compensation.

Learning activities and methodology

The learning activities comprise 1.- Master classes. 2.- Exercises. 3.- Cases.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment

The final grade is the weighted average of the following items:

Final exam (*): multiple-choice exam, mainly focused on practical issues. 60%.
2 Partials exams: 20%.
3 Cases in group. The students will have to present 1 case studies in groups of 4 students each. 20%.

A MINIMUM GRADE OF 4.0 OVER 10.0 IS REQUIRED

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

BREALEY, R. A. y MYERS, S.. Fundamentos de Financiación empresarial. McGraw Hill. 1998

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.