Course No:           Act 512

Course Name:      Basic Finance

Course Description:      

a) Corporate Finance; legal, organisation, firm governance, agency costs - minimization, cost of capital.

b) Capital management: major sectors of the capital market. Their characteristics, impact investors, issuers and others Regulatory capital requirements.

c) Financial Risk management: risk alternating, transferring risk to a third party, Costs & benefits types of risks, means of reducing risks, Use of derivatives, synthetic securities and financial contracting.

d) Financial Strategy: appropriate decision making process; Optimal capital structure, financial risks and opportunities influence on the selection of firm strategy.

Course Review:

The course is structured in a way to have a better perspective about the financial concepts and its tools. It wraps up financial analysis, financial decision making, time value of money, agency cost minimization, cost of capital, risk alternating, transferring risk to a third party, means of reducing risk, utilization of derivatives, synthetic securities and financial contracting, optimal capital structure, opportunities influencing on the assortment of the firm strategy.