FIUBACOF Corporate Finance

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Tomáš Heryán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Tomáš Heryán, Ph.D.
Department of Finance and Accounting – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Ing. Irena Szarowská, Ph.D., MPA
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • 1. Corporate Finance Development
    Types of business by the organization. The emergence and development of corporations. Corporate finance and financial management. The concept of corporate finance in a market economy. Company goal. Managerial theories of a firm, simple management model, full cost model, behaviorist theories of the firm, employee theory of the company.
    2. Time value of the money
    Understanding of time and its impact on money has a crucial role in the modern world. If we are talking about possibilities to compare two particular cash flows in future or how to select right opportunity to save money against to inflation, the present as well as future value, both have the same importance.
    3. Corporate financing
    Own and foreign sources, long-term and short-term, their basic characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. In other words for any company is necessary to finance its activities. Each type of financing, securities as stocks, bonds, bank loans or a specific type as accruals, would be beneficial for a company. Annuity cash flows.
    4. Evaluation investments
    Evaluation aspects. Yield, risk, liquidity. Net present value method. Method of internal rate of return. Profitability index method. Maturity method. Average return method to book value. Advantages and disadvantages of individual methods. Uncertainty. Probability Determination Methods. Risk of an individual asset. Portfolio risk consisting of two assets.
    5. Financial management
    Types of representative conflicts, representative costs, motivational mechanisms. Information asymmetry. Management models of a joint stock company, Anglo-American model, continental-European model. Types of dividends. Definition of dividend and its breakdown - by type of share to which they are paid, by dividend form, by payout interval.
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2023.
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