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    COURSE OUTLINE

    Class: MBA Executive Semester: Fall

    Course Name: Business Finance 1 Session: Tuesday and Thursday

    Class Timing: 6:30pm to 8:30pm Instructor Name: Shazia Farooq, CFA

    Contact Email: [email protected] Consultation Time: 5:30 to 6:30 pm

    Text Book

    Most of the relevant material will be covered in lecture notes. However, for further reference, students
    will be provided with the excerpts from the CFA curriculum. Moreover, students are also advised to
    look up the following titles for a detailed theoretical understanding of the concepts and their numeric
    applications:

    a) Fundamentals of Financial Management by Eugene F. Brigham & Joel F. Houston;


    b) Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Brealey, Myers & Marcus;
    c) Principles of Corporate Finance by Brealey, Myers & Allen;

    Course Objective

    Inculcating timely decision making skills


    Prime focus of the course would be on the following areas:

    a) Present value and opportunity cost of capital;


    b) Valuation of fixed income securities;
    c) Valuation of stocks;
    d) Project cash flow analysis;
    e) Capital budgeting techniques;
    f) Determination of the required rate of return via asset pricing models;
    g) Working Capital Management;
    h) Financial Planning and Forecasting Statements; and
    i) Introduction to financial risk management and derivatives.
    Summarized Week Wise Course Distribution (Tentative)

    Session Topic To Be Studied


    1-2 Overview of Financial Management
    Importance and Analysis of Financial Statements
    3-5 Basics of Valuation – Time Value of Money
    6-9 Risk and Return for Individual Stocks and Risk diversification for
    portfolios; Optimal portfolio and Efficient Frontier (Two-asset case);
    CAPM Model; Beta Coefficient
    10-11 Cost of Capital: Component Costs (Debt, Preferred Stock, Retained
    Earnings, New Common Equity)
    Short Case Study
    11 Features of Equity Securities and Overview of Valuation Techniques
    12-14 Valuation of Stocks
    Short Case Study
    15 Guest Speaker Session
    16-18 Term structure of Interest rate
    Valuation of Fixed-Income Securities
    Case Study on Fixed Income Securities: Engro Rupiya
    19-21 Project Cashflows and Basics of Capital Budgeting Techniques
    Payback, Discounted payback, NPV, and IRR
    Short Case Study
    21-23 Working Capital Management
    24-25 Financial Planning and Forecasting Financial Statements
    26 Financial Risk Management: Introduction to Derivatives
    27-28 Revision/Project Presentations

    Grading Plan
    Marks Distribution Weightage
    Mid Term1 15%
    Mid Term2 15%
    Final Examination 40%
    Quizzes 15%
    Assignments/Projects/Presentations 15%
    Total 100%

    Project Guidelines
    Analyse financial performance of a listed company for the period 2014-17 and comment on the
    following key financial indicators:
     Liquidity, Solvency, Efficiency and Profitability position using key financial ratios
     Working Capital Management Policy
     Weighted Average Cost of Capital at year ending 2017
     FCFF, FCFE and Dividend trends
     Beta (using 36 months data for monthly prices) and cost of equity (using CAPM)

    Required Submission Format: Excel Workbook with complete data and working, analysis (on a
    separate MS Word document) and names of group members.

    Due Date: 03 December 2018

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