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Syllabus
Financial Management

Financial Management
Subject
Type Semester ECTS Code
OBLIGATIVE (O) 3 6 10-MFN-322
Course Lecturer - Cand.Phd Sema Kazazi
Course Assistant
Course Tutor

 This is an advanced and applied financial management course. Students shall discover creative ways of
thinking about different types of managerial problems, apply financial theory and analytical tools in
corporate-like settings, and formulate and support realistic recommendations. To provide students with
Aims and Objectives required finance background to analyze the assigned cases, the course covers the relevant financial
theory and quantitative techniques in each class period. Students must be able to augment the case
facts with relevant market information as well as applied knowledge obtained in other business-finance
courses.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

- Learn important financial management or corporate finance theories and techniques.
- Apply analytical financial techniques to practical financial situations.
- Integrate finance theories and concepts with financial applications on a global basis.
- Understand the security valuation techniques and the associated risk-return tradeoffs.
- Use technology, especially spreadsheets and the Internet, to analyze financial problems.
Learning Outcomes - Understand the global aspects of the financial markets and their implications. Recognize their
ethical and social responsibilities and apply a balanced and rational approach to resolving
ethical business dilemmas.
Develop team-based working skills and ability to communicate the results of a financial analysis of real
world business problems.

Course Content Course Plan – Lectures Week

Financial Management: Introduction, Meanings and Definitions, Goals of 1

Financial Management, Finance Functions, Interface between Finance and
Financial Analysis 2
Corporate Financial Planning, Time Value of Money, Discounted Cash Flow 3

Capital budgeting NPV, IRR and MIRR 4

Capital budgeting NPV, IRR and MIRR 2 5
Payback 6
Midterm Exam 7 or 8
Cost of Capital and Maximizing Value CAPM and WACC 7
Short and medium term funding sources 8
Long-term funding sources 9
Credits 10
Risk Management 11
Effective interest rate 12
Final Exam 13
 Teaching/Learning Activity Weight (%)
1. Lectures 40%
Teaching/Learning 2. Seminars 20%
Methods
3. Case Studies 20%
4. Problem-based learning 20%

Assessment Activity Number Week Weight (%)

1. Class participation 12 1-12 10%
2. Assignment - Seminars 1 1-12 10%
Assessment Methods
3. Midterm Exam 1 7 or 8 40%
4. Final Exam 1 13 40%

Resources Number
1
Course resources 1. Basic book, slides, financial reports 1

2. Magazine: The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Business Week,

Reports
Activity Weekly hrs Total workload
1. Lectures 2 24
2. Excercise 2 24
3. Exam 4
ECTS Workload 4. Problem Solving 1 12
5. Assignment 2 24
6. Self learning 62

1. Financial Management, Eugene F. Brigham, Michael C. Erhardt– Theory and

Practice, 13th edition, 2011
2. Drejtimi Financiar 1 Teori dhe Praktike – Halit Xhafa dhe Beshir Ciceri
Literature/References (2011)
3. Fundamentals of Financial Management,Concise-Brigham Houston
4. Reports

Sema Kazazi –sema.kazazi@ubt-uni.net

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