10MBAFM321 Advanced Financial management syllabus for MBA


Unit-1 Working capital management 6 hours

Determination of level of current assets. Sources for financing workingcapital. Bank finance for working capital. (No problems on estimation of working capital)Working capital financing: Short term financing of working capital, long term financing of working capital.Working capital leverages

Unit-2 Cash Management 6 hours

Forecasting cash flows – Cash budgets, long-term cash forecasting, monitoringcollections and receivables, optimal cash balances – Baumol model, Miller-orr model, stone model. Strategiesfor managing surplus fund.

Unit-3 Receivables Management 6 hours

Credit management through credit policy variables, marginal analysis, Creditevaluation : Numerical credit scoring and Discriminate analysis. Control of accounts receivables, Factoring.

Unit-4 Inventory Management 6 hours

Determinations of inventory control levels : ordering, reordering, danger level. EOQmodel. Pricing of raw material. Monitoring and control of inventories, ABC Analysis.

Unit-5 Capital structure decisions 10 hours

capital structure & market value of a firm. Theories of capital structure – NIapproach, NOI approach, Modigliani Miller approach, traditional approach. Arbitrage process in capitalstructure. Planning the capital structure: EBIT and EPS analysis. ROI & ROE analysis. Capital structure policy

Unit-6 Dividend policy 6 hours

Theories of dividend policy : relevance and irrelevance dividend decision. Walter’s &Gordon’s model, Modigliani & Miller approach. Dividend policies – stable dividend, stable payout and growth.Bonus shares and stock split corporate dividend behavior. Legal and procedural aspects of dividends CorporateDividend Tax.

Unit-7 Hybrid Financing 6 hours

Preferred stock, Warrants and convertibles, Private equity. Venture funds, Angel financingFinancial management in intangible – intensive companies. Characteristics of intangiblies, implications forfinancial managements, Types and approaches to valuations of intangible assets.

Unit-8 Corporate financial modeling 10 hours

Corporate financial modeling – Agency problem and consideration. Effect of inflation on ; Asset value, firm value, returns,Financial planning – Basis of financial planning, sales forecast method, pro-forma P & L account method, pro-forma balance sheet method, determination of External Financing Requirement (EFR).Financial Management of sick units: Definition of sickness, causes, symptoms, predictions, revival strategies, institutions for revival of sick units.Economic Value Added (EVA) – concept, components of EVA. Market Value Added (MVA)

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