Financial Fundamental

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to interpret and prepare financial statement and reporting using appropriate approaches; to choose appropriate financial analysis tools in a given business situation for decision-making processes; to identify and use effective applications of IT in calculating bonds, optimal portfolio selections, options and leasing; to apply principles of financial analysis to forecast future performance

Topics

1. Financial Fundamentals deals with the maintenance and creation of economic value or wealth
2. It focuses on decision making with a special attention on creating wealth
3. In general, there are three groups of financial decisions: investment, financing, and dividend decisions
4. Investment decisions involve allocation of scarce resources across competing uses. Financing decisions involve raising funds to finance the investment projects
5. Dividend decisions involve reinvesting cash back to the business or returning cash to shareholders