Financial Management
Instructor: Жељана Јовичић, PhD, Associate Professor
Familiarizing the students with the basic rules and principles of financial management, management of companies' finance and functioning of financial markets. The result of improved knowledge in this field is the ability to objectively identify, analyze and solve typical problems that financial managers of companies encounter in the business. Students acquire knowledge about the role of financial managers in the field of finance, investment and management of companies' finance, and they master the basics of financial logic, financial methods and techniques selected in accordance with the demand of labor market for staff of this profile.
| Code : | О14ФМЕ |
|---|---|
| Status: | C |
| Semestar: | 4th |
| Number of classes per week: | 4+2 |
| ЕECTS: | 8 |
| Teachers: |
Жељана Јовичић,
PhD Associate Professor |
| Prerequisites: | |
| Learning Outcomes (gained knowledge): | Systematic mastering of specific knowledge of financial management and capacity for its implementation. Adopting the conceptual and abstract thinking as the basis of creative approach to the companies' finance. Mastering the basic skills of autonomous and team work in the field of financial management as a precondition for participation in solving specific tasks in the field of finance. Upon completion of studying this course, students should gain the essential knowledge, understanding and ability to demonstrate the importance and role of finance in the enterprise, as well as the skill of using the basic methods and techniques of financial management. |
| Subject Contents: | Enterprise business functions and tasks of business functions; Tax environment; Financial policy and financing rules. Money market and capital market. Stock market and currency market. Corporate finance, joint ventures, loans and specific forms of financing. Making decisions about financing. Analysis of income, property and financial status of companies. Solvency rating of enterprises. Financial planning, business and financial risk. The time dimension of money. The notion and quantification of investment, financial evaluation and evaluation of project liquidity. Analysis of uncertainty. Financial management of permanent and long-term capital and fixed assets. Managing short-term liabilities and working capital. Managing dividend. |
| Teaching Methods and Learning Activities: | Forms of teaching are lectures, exercises, and independent seminar papers under the supervision of a teacher and teaching assistant, regular consultations and e-consultations, discussions of case studies. Clearly structured lessons, with significant joint work and communication, give advantage to teaching methods. By applying the portfolio method as an intellectual unification of teaching and learning, continuous improvement of teaching process is achieved and it provides optimal quality of teaching and learning process. |
| Literature: | Mikerević, D. (2011). Financial Management. Banja Luka: Faculty of Economics and Finrar; Van Horne J. C.; Wachowicz J. M. Jr. (2002). Fundamentals of Financial Management. Zagreb: Маtе. |
| Types of Assessment for the subject: | Colloquium I (0-20 points); Colloquium II (0-20 points); Final exam (0-50 points); Attendance (2point); Class activities (seminar papers, discussions, case studies) (0-8 points) |
| Special Remarks for the subject: | Knowledge of basic accounting categories is an informal condition for the successful completion of the subject. |