ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD

(Department of Business Administration)

WARNING
1. PLAGIARISM OR HIRING OF GHOST WRITER(S) FOR SOLVING
THE ASSIGNMENT(S) WILL DEBAR THE STUDENT FROM AWARD
OF DEGREE/CERTIFICATE, IF FOUND AT ANY STAGE.
2. SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENT(S) BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM
OTHER(S) AS ONE’S OWN WILL BE PENALIZED AS DEFINED IN
“AIOU PLAGIARISM POLICY”.
Course: Financial Management (5040) Semester: Autumn, 2023
Level: BS (A&F)

ASSIGNMENT No. 1
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 50

Note: Attempt all question. Examples with special reference to the financial
sector of Pakistan will carry more credit.
Q. 1 Define the goal of the firm, explain three key financial decisions with example. (20)

Q. 2 What are some of disadvantages of (a) a sole proprietorship? (b) a partnership?

(c) a limited lability company (LLC)? (20)

Q. 3 Can a firm generate a 25 percent return on assets and still be technically insolvent
(unable to pay its bills)? Explain. (20)

Q. 4 What does work capital management encompass? What functional decisions are
involved and what underlying principles or trade-off influences the decision
process? (20)
Q. 5 If you are scheduled to receive a certain sum of money five years from ow but wish
to sell your contract its present value, which type of compounding would you
prefer to be used in the calculation? Why? (20)

GUIDELINES FOR ASSIGNMENT No. 1:

You should look upon the assignments as a test of knowledge, management skills, and
communication skills. When you write an assignment answer, you are indicating your
knowledge to the teacher in the following way:
 Your level of understanding of the subject;
 How clearly you think;
 How well you can reflect on your knowledge & experience;
 How well you can use your knowledge in solving problems, explaining situations,
and describing organizations and management;
 How professional you are, and how much care and attention you give to what you do.

To answer a question effectively, address the question directly, bring important related
issues into the discussion, refer to sources, and indicate how principles from the course
materials apply. You must also be able to identify important problems and implications
arising from the answer. The references should be given at the end of the assignment. For
citing references, writing bibliographies, and formatting the assignment, APA format
should be followed.

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 ASSIGNMENT No. 2
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 50

This assignment is a research-oriented activity. You are required to visit any business/
commercial organization and prepare a research report of about 15 to 20 pages on one of
the topics given below. To avoid the duplication, a student is required to select the topic
according to the last digit of his/her role number. For example if your roll number is
I-342718 then you will select topic # 8 from the given below list (last digit).

As there are given topics, you will select the topic according to the last digit of your roll
number mentioned as under:
Topics:
0. Corporate Governance
1. Corporate Social Responsibility
2. Capital Budgeting Techniques
3. Portfolio Risk & Return
4. Merger & Acquisition
5. Bond Valuation
6. Stock Valuation
7. Dividend & Types of Dividend
8. Tools for Short Term & Long Term Financing
9. Financial Markets & Types

GUIDELINES FOR THE PREPARATION OF ASSIGNMENT # 2

The report should follow the following format:

1. Title page
2. Acknowledgements
3. An abstract (one page summary of the paper)
4. Table of contents
5. Introduction to the issue (brief history & significance of issue assigned)
6. Data collection methods
7. Conclusion (one page brief covering important aspects of your report)
8. Recommendations (specific recommendations relevant to issue assigned)
9. References (as per APA format)
10. Annexes (if any)

Other Guidelines:
 1.5 line spacing
 Use headers and subheads throughout all sections
 Organization of ideas
 Writing skills (spelling, grammar, punctuation)
 Professionalism (readability and general appearance)
 Do more than repeat the text
 Express a point of view and defend it.

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You should use transparencies and any other material for effective presentation. The
transparencies are not the presentation, but only a tool; the presentation is the
combination of the transparencies and your speech. Workshop presentation
transparencies should only be in typed format.

You are required to prepare two copies of 2nd assignment. Submit one copy to your tutor/
teacher for evaluation and the second copy for presentations in the workshop in the
presence of the resource person and classmates, which will be held at the end of the
semester prior to the final examination.

GUIDELINES FOR WORKSHOP PRESENTATION:

 Make eye contact and react to the audience. Don't read from the transparencies or
from report, and don't look too much at the transparencies (occasional glances are
acceptable to help in recalling the topic to cover).

 A 15-minute presentation can be practiced several times in advance, so do that until

you are confident enough. Some people also use a mirror when rehearsing as a
substitute for an audience.

WEIGHTAGE OF THEORY & PRACTICAL ASPECTS IN ASSIGNMENT # 2 &

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS:
Assignment # 2 & workshop presentations are evaluated on the basis of theory & its
applicability. The weightage of each aspect would be:
Theory 60%
Applicability (practical study of the organization) 40%
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (5040)
Unit 1: Introduction to Financial Management
1.1 The Role of Financial Management
1.1.1 Defining financial management
1.1.2 Goals of firm
1.1.3 Functions of financial management
1.1.4 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
1.2 The Business, Tax and Financial Environments
1.2.1 Business environment
1.2.2 Tax environment
1.2.3 Financial environment

Unit 2: Tools of Financial Analysis and Planning

2.1 Financial Statement Analysis
2.1.1 Financial statements
2.1.2 Balance sheet ratios
2.1.3 Income statement and income statement/balance sheet ratios
2.1.4 Trend analysis
2.1.5 Common-size and index analysis
2.2 Cash-flow Analysis and Financial Planning
2.1.1 Accounting statement of cash flows
2.1.2 Cash-Flow forecasting

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 2.1.3 Range of cash-flow estimates
2.1.4 Forecasting financial statements

Unit 3: Valuation
3.1 Time Value of Money
3.1.1 Simple and compound interest
3.1.2 Annuities
3.1.3 Compounding more than once a year
3.1.4 Amortizing a loan
3.2 Valuation of Long-Term Securities
3.2.1 Distinctions among valuation concepts
3.2.2 Bond valuation
3.2.3 Preferred stock valuation
3.2.4 Common stock valuation
3.2.5 Rates of return (or Yields)

Unit 4: Risk and Return

4.1 Defining Risk and Return
4.2 Using Probability Distribution to Measure Risk
4.3 Attitudes Toward Risk
4.4 Risk and Return in a Portfolio Context
4.5 Diversification
4.6 Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
4.7 Arbitrage P: ricing Theory (APT)
Unit 5: Working Capital Management-I
5.1 Overview of Working Capital Management
5.1.1 Working capital
5.1.2 Financing current assets: Short-term and long-term mix
5.1.3 Combining liability structure
5.2 Cash and Marketable Securities Management
5.2.1 Motives for holding cash
5.2.2 Speeding up can receipts
5.2.3 Slowing down cash payment
5.2.4 Electronic commerce
5.2.5 Investment in marketable securities

Unit 6: Working Capital Management-II

6.1 Accounts Receivable and Inventory Management
6.1.1 Credit and collection policies
6.1.2 Analyzing the credit applicant
6.1.3 Inventory management and control
6.2 Short-term Financing
6.2.1 Spontaneous financing
6.2.2 Negotiated financing
6.2.3 Composition of short-term financing

Unit 7: Investment in Capital Assets

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 7.1 Overview of Capital Budgeting Process
7.2 Estimating Project “After-Tax Incremental Operating Cash Flows”
7.3 Capital Budgeting Techniques
7.4 Risk and Managerial Options in Capital Budgeting

Unit 8: Cost of Capital

8.1 Required Returns and the Cost of Capital
8.1.1 Overall cost of capital of the firm
8.1.2 CAPM: project-specific and group-specific required rates of
return
8.1.3 Evaluation of projects on basis of their total risk
8.2 Operating and Financial Leverage
8.2.1 Operating leverage
8.2.2 Financial leverage
8.2.3 Total leverage
8.2.3 Cash-flow ability to service debt
8.3 Dividend Policy
8.3.1 Active versus passive dividend policies
8.3.2 Factors influencing dividend policies
8.3.3 Stock dividend and stock splits

Unit 9: Long-term Financing

9.1 Long-term Debt, Preferred Stock and Common Stock
9.1.1 Types of long-term debt instruments
9.1.2 Bonds and their features
9.1.3 Preferred stock and its features
9.1.4 Common stock and its features
9.1.5 Dual-class common stock
9.2 The Loans and Leases
9.2.1 Term loans
9.2.2 Equipment and lease financing
9.2.3 Lease financing vs. debt financing

Recommended Books:
Horne, J. C. V. & Wachowicz, J. R. (2005). Fundamentals of Financial Management
(12th ed.) U.S.A.: Pearson Education Ltd.

Khan, M. Y. & Jains, P. K. (2007). Financial Management (2nd ed.) New Delhi, India:
Tata McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Brigham, E. F. & Ehrhardt, M. C. (2001). Financial Management (10th ed.) Ohio, U.S.A.:
South Western Pub.

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