Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Economy and Business Management :: Management

Versao Portuguesa

FINANÇAS - 2021/2022

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Isabel Araújo
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Isabel Araújo

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Interpret and use financial information for business decision-making.
Evaluate the financial balance, profitability and risk.
Elaborate a treasury budget.
To teach financial derivatives.


Specific Aims/Objectives

To provide the tools and the analytical techniques to understand and interpret:
Investment Decisions;
Financing Decisions;
Dividend Decisions.

Skills to be acquired

The student will be able to increase their corporate finance and investing knowledge;
The student will be able to estimate the valuation risk using real-time data on real companies;
The student will be able to compute the value of a financial derivative and at the same time using it to take hedging decisions.

Teaching Procedures

The teaching methods are diverse:
1) Expository method for the presentation of the syllabus.
2) Resolution of practical exercises.
3) Resolution of case study in Excel sheet.

Programme

1 Introduction to Corporate Finance
2 Capital Structure
3 Short-Term Finance/ Long-Term Financing
4 Capital Structure
5 Profitability analysis
6 Risk Analysis
7 Economic and Financial Analysis
8 Financing Decisions
9 Dividends and Other Payouts

Evaluation Type

The assessment follows the regulations provided for the University
One academic Work and a final exam.

Teaching Resources

Suggested bibliography and notebooks provided by the teacher.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Financial ratios
Investment
Profitability
Risk
Financing.

Main Bibliography

Author Ross, S.; Westerfield, Jaffe, R.; Bradford, J.
Title Corporate Finance
Edition 12ª
Editor McGraw-Hill
Year 2019
Author Maness, T. S.; Zietlow, J. T.
Title Short-Term Financial Management
Edition
Place Upper Saddle River
Editor Prentice-Hall.
Year 2012
Author Elton, Edwin J. et al
Title Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analyis
Edition
Place Chichester
Editor John Wiley and Sons
Year 2014

Complementary Bibliography

Author Hillier, David et al
Title Corporate Finance: European Edition
Edition 2ª. ed.
Place Londres
Editor Mcgraw-Hill Education
Year 2013
Author Aswath Damodaran
Title Applied Corporate Finance
Edition 4th Edition
Place
Editor Wiley
Year 2015