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SYLLABUS
Basic Financial Management

Objectives: To acquaint students with various concepts of Financial Management. It would enable them to understand various
types of decisions taken by a business organisation in the area of Finance.

S. No. Description
1 Meaning, Objectives and Scope of Financial Management
2 Finance Functions -Investment, Financing, Liquidity & Dividend Decisions. Risk & Return Trade off.
3 Source of Finance – Long term, Medium term & short term Time Value of Money – Basic Concepts
4 Cost of Capital: Concept and its significance, measurement of cost of capital of various sources of funds. Weighted Average
cost of capital.
5 Capital Structure Decision: Understanding debt and equity
6 Theories of Capital Structure, Optimum Capital Structure
7 Capital Budgeting : Analytical study of various methods of Capital Budgeting
8 Working Capital – Concept and Significance, Determining working capital requirements; Basics of receivables, Inventory
and cash management.
9 Dividend Policy; Determinants of Dividend Policy, Theories of dividend and Forms of dividend
10 Break Even Analysis