Instructor Information

Instructor	Email	Office Location & Hours
[Dr. Hadi KHALIL]	[hadi.khalil@hotmail.fr]	[Location, Hours, Days]

General Information

Description:

The "essentials of Financial Management" course consists of many topics concerning planning, acquiring, allocating funds by businesses. It covers essentially the following:

1- Introduction to Financial Mangement (Concepts)

2- Financial statements

3- Introduction to valuation: time value of money

4- Risk and return

5- Debt and stock Valaution

Expectations and Goals

By the end of this course, students should have familiarity with the basic types of financial decisions related to funding and investment choices. This course presents a quick review of how to standardize a financial statement and how to compute and interpret some key ratios. In addition, the third and fourth parts help students in understanding what is the concept of present value of the cash flow and so how to calculate the real return on an investment. The fifth part aims to make students more in touch with different technics of debt instruments and stock valuation.

Language(s) of Instruction: Textbook(s) Language(s)

English English

Course Materials:

This course depends basically on this textbook

• Keown, Martin, Petty and Scott (Jr). Financial Management: Principles and Applications; Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2002.

Related references:

· Ross, S.A, Westerfield, R.W, Jordan, B.D. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (6th ED). McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003.

· Brigham, E. F., & Houston, J. F. Fundamentals of financial management: Business school edition (11th ED). Mason, OH: South-Western College, 2006.

Course Schedule

	Week	Topic		Reading Text book : Financial Management: Principles and Applications Keown, Martin, Petty and Scott (10 edition)	Exercises
1	9/2-14/2	Introduction to financial environement		Chapter 1 : pages (4-25)
2	16/2-21/2	Introduction to financial environement		Chapter 1 : pages (4-25)
3	23/2-28/2	Financial statements	Chapter 2 : Pages ( 31-50)
4	2/3-7/3	Financial statements	Chapter 2 : Pages ( 31-50)
5	9/3-14/3	Financial statements Analysis	Chapter 2 : Pages ( 31-50)
6	16/3-21/3	Financial statements Analysis	Chapter 2 : Pages ( 31-50)
7	23/3-28/3	The Value of Money	Chapter 5: pages (138-165)
8	30/3-4/4	The Value of Money	Chapter 5 : pages (135-165)
9	6/4-11/4	Risk and Rates of Return	Chapter 6 : pages (182-207)
10	13/4-18/4	Risk and Rates of Return	Chapter 6 : pages (182-207)
11	20/4-25/4	Valuation and Characteristics of Bonds	Chapter 7 : pages (224-245)
12	27/4-2/5	Valuation and Characteristics of Bonds	Chapter 7 : pages (224-245)
13	4/5-9/5	Stock Valuation	Chapter 8: pages (255-275)
14	11/5-16/5	Stock Valuation	Chapter 8 : pages (255-275)
15	18/5-23/5	Review

Testing Schedule

test	Date	Subject	Reading	Type	language	% of final grade
Quizz 1	09/03	Diabetes	Chapter/pp	MCQ/written	English	10
Quizz 2	27/04			MCQ/written	English	10
Activity				Attendance Reactions		10
Exam	25/05-09/06			MCQ/written	English	70