Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
1. Explain the roles of financial management.
2. Describe the major theoretical concepts and tools of finance.
3. Evaluate investment projects.
4. Describe operations of securities markets.
5. Evaluate and compute a firm’s cost of capital.
6. Analyse working capital and its elements.
7. Make an analysis of financial statements.
8. Describe the ethical issues and ways of mitigating them that financial managers face.
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Course Curriculum
Unit 1 - The Finance Function
Unit 2 - Risk and Return
Unit 3 - Time-value of Money
Unit 4 - Shares and Bonds
Unit 5 - Valuation of Securities
Unit 6 - Capital Budgeting
Unit 7 - Cost of Capital
Unit 8 - Finance Markets
Unit 9 - Working Capital Management
Unit 10 - Managing Inventories
Unit 11 - Managing Receivables
Unit 12 - Managing Payables
Unit 13 - Cash Management
Unit 14 - Financial Analysis and Control
Unit 1 - The Finance Function and Environment
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Financial Management
Unit 2 - Risk and Return
Lecture 1 - Concept of Return
Lecture 2 - Measurement of Return
Lecture 3 - Risk
Lecture 4 - Measurement of Risk
Lecture 5 - Coefficient of Variation
Unit 3 - Time- Value- of- Money Concept
Lecture 1 - Why Time-Value-of-Money?
Lecture 2 - The Concept of Compounding
Lecture 3 - Simple and Compound Interest
Lecture 4 - Variable Interest Rates
Lecture 5 - Multiple Compounding
Lecture 6 - The Concept of Discounting
Lecture 7 - PV of Different Cashflows
Lecture 8 - Loan Amortization
Unit 4 - Shares and Bonds
Lecture 1 - Equity Financing (Shares)
Lecture 2 - Debt Financing (Bonds)
Lecture 3 - Other Forms of Finance
Unit 5 - Valuation of Securities
Lecture 1 - Valuation of Securities
Lecture 2 - Net Asset Valuation Model
Lecture 3 - Dividend Valuation Model
Lecture 4 - Constant Growth Model
Lecture 5 - Non-constant Growth Model
Lecture 6 - Valuation of Debt
Unit 6 - Capital Budgeting
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Capital Budgeting
Lecture 2 - Pay Back Period Method
Lecture 3 - Accounting Rate of Return
Lecture 4 - Net Present Value Method
Lecture 5 - Internal Rate of Return
Lecture 6 - Profitability Index
Lecture 7 - Discounted Pay Back Period
Unit 7 - Cost of Capital and Capital Structure
Lecture 1 - The Cost of Capital
Lecture 2 - Cost of Equity
Lecture 3 - Cost of Debt
Lecture 4 - Cost of Convertible Debt
Lecture 5 - Cost of Preference Shares
Lecture 6 - Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Lecture 7 - Marginal Cost of Capital (MCC)
Unit 8 - Securities and Finance Markets
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Finance Markets
Lecture 2 - Capital Markets
Lecture 3 - Uganda Securities Exchange (USE)
Lecture 4 - Cross Listing
Unit 9 - Financial Analysis and Control
Lecture 1 - Financial Analysis Explained
Lecture 2(1) - Ratio Analysis Explained
Lecture 2(2) - Profitability Ratios
Lecture 3 - Projected Financial Statements
Lecture 4 - Percentage of Sales Method
Lecture 5 - Projected Financial Performance
Lecture 6 - Projected Financial Position
Unit 10 - Working Capital Management
Lecture 1 - Working Capital Explained
Lecture 2 - Over Capitalization
Lecture 3 - Over Capitalization
Lecture 4 - Working Capital Financing
Unit 11 - Managing Inventories
Lecture 1 - Stock Levels
Lecture 2 - Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
Lecture 3- Calculating EOQ
Lecture 4 - Total Inventory Costs
Lecture 5 - EOQ with Discounts
Unit 12 - Managing Accounts Receivables
Lecture 1 - Credit Control Policy
Lecture 2 - Assessing Credit Worthiness
Lecture 3 - Extension of Credit Period
Lecture 3(2) - Solution to Activity Question
Lecture 3(3) - Net Profit Margin Approach
Lecture 4 - Debt Collection
Lecture 5 - Receivables Financing
Unit 13 - Managing Payables
Lecture 1 - Payables Management Explained
Unit 14 - Cash Management
Lecture 1 - Cash Management Explained
Lecture 2 - Cash Management Models
Lecture 3 - Optimal Cash using Baumol Model
Lecture 4 - Baumol Model (Exam type Question)
Lecture 5 - The Miller-Orr model
Lecture 6 - Cash Operating Cycle Explained
Lecture 7 - Determining the Cash operating Cycle
Lecture 8 - Cash Budget Explained
Lecture 9 - Preparation of the Cash Budget
Unit 15 - Corporate Restructuring
Lecture 1 - Corporate Failure
Lecture 2 - Mergers and Acquisitions
Lecture 3 - Business Valuation
Unit 16 - International Trade and Finance
Unit 17 - Social Responsibility and Ethics
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Target Group
The course has been designed for students undertaking Financial Management under CPA(U) professional course and has been built around the official CPA(U) syllabus. The course is also designed for students pursuing a foreign accountancy qualifications such as ACCA and students undertaking Corporate Finance related course units at institutions of higher learning.
CPA Innocent Mugisha is a Professor of Finance and Accounting with over 10 years' experience in teaching Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Auditing and Statistics related courses including hands-on courses on common accounting system such as tally, quickbooks and sunsystems both at University and Professional level. His qualifications are; PhD (candidate), MBA(Finance), CPA(U), FCCA, CIPS, CTA and BCOM (Accounting). Innocent has also published various books on most topics in Accounting and Finance for Business and Professional Studies.