FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1.Meaning of Financial Management : Types of Finance, Scope of Finance Management, Importance of Financial Management, Inter-relation Among Financial Decisons, Functional areas of Modern Financial Management, Functional Areas of Modern Financial Management, Concept of time value of Money, Techniques of Valuation.
2. Redemption of Preference Shares and Debentures : Redemption of Preference Shares and Debentures, power to issue redeemable preference shares, methods of redemption of fullypaid-up shares, redemption of preference shares by fresh issue of shares, redemption of preference shares by capitalization of undistributed profits, capital redemption reserve (CRR) account, journal for accounting entries, redeemable preference shares are equity
3. Obstacles for Capital Budgeting : Principles of Capital Budgeting, principles of capital budgeting, steps of capital budgeting, meaning of ranking of capital budgeting, classification of investment proposals, capital budgeting appraisal methods, types of investment risk
4. Risk and Return : Concept of Risk and Return, Diversification of Risk, Unsystematic Risk, in a Contemporary Mode.
5. Cost of Capital : Cost of Capital, concept of cost of capital, Classify the cost, the computation of specific cost of capital, marginal cost of capital, the various weighting approaches and the weighted average cost of capital, cost of debentures/debt/public deposits, cost of debentures
6. International Finance Management : International Finance Management, meaning and importance of international finance management, nature and scope of IFM, international financial management and domestic financial management, cost and availability of international financial flows, balance of payments (BOP), preparation of balance of payment, relationship between BOP and national economy.
7.Foreign Exchange Market : Foreign Exchange Market, the transactions of foreign exchange market, arbitrage and speculation in foreign exchange market, foreign exchange trading spreads, exchange arithmetic, spread, premium and discount, international bond financing, financial structure of foreign subsidiaries of MNCs
8.Short Term Financial Markets : Eurodollars, Euro Currencies, Euro Notes and Multinational Banking Market Efficiency, Efficiency of Money Markets
9. Long Term Financial Markets : Equity and Bond Investments, Equity and Bond Financing, Eurobonds and Foreign Bonds, Multi-currency Bonds, Bank Financing
10 Dividend Policy : Dividend Policy, dividend policy, profit of management, factors influencing dividend policy, forms of dividends, advantages of issue of bonus share, factors influencing dividend policy, stock splits, Differentiate between bonus issue and stock split, Walter’s model, Understand Modigliani- miller model, practical aspects of dividend policy,
11.Financial Ratio Analysis : Financial Ratio Analysis, need of financial ratio analysis, meaning of ratio, advantage of ratio analysis, advantages of ratio analysis for shareholders, limitations of ratio analysis, liquidity ratio, capital structure and leverage ratio, asset management ratio or turnover ratio, performance ratio, activity ratio and profitability ratios
12.ABC Analysis : ABC Analysis, e economic order quantity (EOQ), order point problem two-bin technique, ABC classification, HML classification, VED classification, FSN classification, SDE classification, order cycling system, Just in Time (JIT)
13. Inventory Management : Inventory Management, scope of inventory management, type of control required, cost of holding inventories, inventory control models and responsibility, control devices, inventory management and evaluation
14. Cash Management : Cash Management, the concept of cash management, motives for holding cash, factors determining the cash balance, cash system
15. Managing Cash Flows : Managing Cash Flows, managing cash flow, accelerating cash collections, Miller and Orr model, Baumol model, investment of surplus funds, Select investing (avenues) securities, marketable securities, working capital finance, approaches for financing current assets, approaches for financing current assets, aggressive approach, tradeoff between profitability and risk