After successful completion of the course, students are expected to have the following:

• Knowledge to be able to describe and analyze the concepts of the cost of capital, leverage, capital structure,

dividend policy, as well as to interpret the concepts of the financial system and sources of financing.

• Skills to be able to distinguish, explain or calculate risk and return, the value of a business and the need for

financing a business.

• Skills to be able to define, evaluate and select investment plans and contribute to making investment decisions.

Students are introduced to the concept of risk, its calculation and its integration into investment evaluation and the cost of capital of the company. The sources of financing and the calculation of the cost of capital of each source of financing are analyzed.

The course aims to enable the graduate to acquire the following general skills:

Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using

the necessary technologies

Adaptation to new situations

Decision-making

Independent work

Teamwork

Generation of new research ideas

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Promotion of free creative and inductive thinking.

Working Capital and its financing and management methods.

• Forecasting financial needs.

• Credit Policy.

• Risk and return.

• Business and Financial Leverage and their impact on the return on equity.

• Determining the optimal capital structure.

• Dividend policy.

• Working capital financing.

• Methods of financing businesses, Bank Loans, Leasing,

Factoring, Forfaiting, Venture Capital. Finance of Acquisitions and Mergers.

Stephen A. Ross, Randolf W. Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Corporate Finance,  McGraw-Hill