Applied Corporate Finance

Teaching results

Upon successful completion of this course, students should well comprehend the concepts, tools and techniques used in corporate practice. Students will refresh their quantitative skills from their previous studies, complement them with more sophisticated concepts and integrate them with practical applications and challenges that corporation managers face in their daily operation. The course prepares students not just in terms of knowledge and applications, but mainly in terms of understanding corporate finance in its complexity of financial decisions that must be considered.
I. Knowledge base and understanding
After completing this course, students should be capable of:
• thoroughly understanding concepts and tools of short-term and long-term financing, their character, specific features and their application in corporate practice
• smoothly reading through corporate financial statements in order to undertake financial planning and budgeting.
• financial decision-making thorough understanding of financial situation, cost of capital in short and long run and consequent financing options, as well as able to propose financial strategies and design proper policies of a company.
II. Skills and competence
After completing this course, students should be able to:
• analyse and implement investment strategies of a company
• propose corporate policy in terms of strategy, risk management, financing and investment based of good understanding of all available tools of corporate finance.