OPF:FIUBACOF Corporate Finance - Course Information
FIUBACOF Corporate Finance
School of Business Administration in KarvinaWinter 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 - Timetable
- Thu 15:35–16:20 A412
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites
- FAKULTA(OPF) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P) && (ROCNIK(2) || ROCNIK(3))
none - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 6/24, only registered: 0/24 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Economics and Management (programme OPF, B_EME)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic principles of corporate finance, while also focusing on basic calculations in the time value of money, savings and inflation, and investment risk.
- 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, and 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 the right opportunity to save money against to inflation, the present as well as future values, 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 such as stocks, bonds, bank loans or a specific type such 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.
- 1. Corporate Finance Development
- Literature
- required literature
- LAOPODIS, N. T. 2013. Understanding Investments: Theories and Strategies. Abingdon: Routledge, Tylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-89162-2.
- recommended literature
- PURCELL, K. and B. VIVARI, 2023. Sustainable Investing: An ESG Starter Kit for Everyday Investors. Business Expert Press. 978-1637425107.
- Teaching methods
- lectures, seminars
- Assessment methods
- written exam, ongoing test
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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