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| Code: | 293650 |
| Module title: | Financial Management |
| Version: | 1.0 (04/2023) |
| Last update: | 5.05.2023 10:42:20 | Person responsible for content: | Prof.Dr.rer.pol. Straßberger, Mario m.strassberger@hszg.de |
| Offered in: | European Business (B.A.) valid from class 2025 |
| Semester according to timetable: | SoSe (summer semester) |
| Module level: | Bachelor/Diplom |
| Duration: | 1 semester |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Place where the module will be offered: | Zittau |
| ECTS Credits: | 5 |
| Student workload (in hours): | 150 |
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| Learning and teaching methods: | Lectures (1 teaching hour), seminars (3 teaching hours) and student self-study. |
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| Assessment | Major exam (presentation) | 100.0% | |
| Syllabus plan/Content: | The modul contains - Concepts of financial planning and decision making - Investment decisions under certainty/uncertainty - Financing decisions - Specifics of financial markets and crowdfunding platforms as sources of financing - Aspects of the modern theory of finance Financial leverage and capital structure of the firm Principles of portfolio theory Capital asset pricing |
| Learning Goals | |
| Subject-specific skills and competences: | Students are familiar with principal concepts of financial decision making. They are able to make rational investment and financing decisions under certainty as well as under uncertainty. Students are able to assess the specific characteristics of financial markets and crowdfunding platforms. Furthermore, they know and are able to apply the basics of financial leverage, capital structure, portfolio selection, and capital asset pricing. |
| Generic competences (Personal and key skills): | Students enhance analytical skills, improve self-study abilities, and expand team work and time management capabilities. |
| Prerequisites: | Knowledge of mathematical analysis, statistics, and probability theory is helpful. |
| Literature: | - Berk, J., P. DeMarzo, Corporate Finance, curr. ed., Pearson - Brealey, R. A., S. C. Myers, F. Allen, Principles of Corporate Finance, curr. ed., McGraw-Hill - Copeland, T. E., J. F. Weston, K. Shastri, Financial theory and corporate policy, curr. ed., Pearson - Ross, S. A., R. W. Westerfield, J. F. Jaffee, B. D. Jordan, Corporate Finance, curr. ed., McGraw-Hill Further literature will be recommended during the classes. |