Financial Accounting: Analysis and reporting Incentives (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

Explain the basic institutional, economic and accounting knowledge and tools; Evaluate Performance Measurement, Performance Management and Review, Performance Appraisal and Compensation System; Analyze capital budgeting; Analyze working capital management and financing decisions; Explain practical finance issues associated with forecasting cash flows and capital requirements for a new business, preparing a business plan and business valuation; Explain Corporate risk management

Topics:

1. The Financial Manager and the Firm
2. The Financial Environment and the Level of Interest Rates
3. Financial Statements, Cash Flows, and Taxes
4. Analyzing Financial Statements
5. The Results-Management System, Performance Measurement
6. Performance Management and Review
7. Performance Appraisal, Compensation System, Implementing the Results Management System
8. The Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting
9. Cash Flows and Capital Budgeting
10. The Cost of Capital
11. Working Capital Management
12. Capital Structure Policy
13. Dividends, Share Repurchases and Payout Policy
14. Business Formation, Growth and Valuation
15. Financial Planning and Forecasting
16. Corporate Risk Management
17. Managerial Finance: Mergers and Business Failure
18. Special Topics in Managerial Finance: Derivatives Securities