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Facilitator:
Dr. Elgilani Elshareif, Ph.D., ACCA., CA
Professor of Finance and Accounting
Canadian University Dubai
Introduction to Managerial Finance
Finance
“is the study of how people and businesses evaluate
investments and raise capital to fund them.”.
Knowledge of financial tools is critical to making good decisions
in both professional world and personal lives.
Finance is an integral part of corporate world
Financial knowledge for personal decisions (for example: buying
a house, planning for retirement, etc)
Financial knowledge for corporate decisions (for example: build
a gas cracking plant ….etc
Introduction to Managerial Finance
Figure 1-2 shows how the finance function fits into a firm’s
organizational chart.
Introduction to Managerial Finance
Ethics in Finance
examples of recent financial scandals and discuss what
went wrong from an ethical perspective
Volkswagen's US emissions scandal of 2015: the defeat
device in VW diesel engines' software.
Ethics violations will reduce the firm value, All else equal.
Introduction to Managerial Finance