Weighting: 100 %
Type: Assignment (L. O. 1, 2, 3, 4)
Brief Description: Critical essay oriented on tactical and operative financial and risk management issue.
Length: max. 3000 words.

• Accounting and financial statements as a tool providing information about the financial position and performance and changes in them
• Theory of risk management
• Financial and risk analysis, methods of implementation and evaluation
• Investment in tangible and intangible assets, evaluation of their effectiveness
• Importance of the IFRS for the market environment
• Investing in financial markets, methods of decision-making and risk management of financial instruments
• Implementation of a financial strategy, as one of the functional strategies

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of financial statements and results regarding proper assessment of the financial position and financial performance of the company.
Knowledge and understanding

2. Evaluate complex issues in accounting and data recognition used for processing a financial analysis and managerial control.
Problem Solving

3. Exhibit a critical awareness and evaluation of an importance and functioning of financial markets, including use of financial instruments in practice.
Analysis

4. Apply and critically appraise methods of business risk management and corporate investment appraisal under uncertainty.
Application

Students will engage in direct teaching sessions / lectures and following structured learning.

Following the lectures and prior to completing assessment students will engage with guided learning which will consolidate all new knowledge and understanding.

Independent learning strategies will include electronic consultations, electronic discussion groups and if asked for - personal consultations / advice with lecture team members.

• Access to online SU library,E-brary,Beck online
• Students have course handbook and learning package at their disposal

FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS ONLY

• Quiry, Pascal Dallochio, Maurizio Le Fur, Corporate Finance : Theory and Practice (3rd Edition), John Wiley & Sons 2011, eISBN: 9781119951841, pISBN: 9781119975588
• Denzil Watson And Antony Head: Coporate Finance Principles and Practice e-book (5th ed.), Pearson Education 2009; ISBN: 0273725270; 9780273725275
• Glen Arnold: Corporate Financial Management (5th ed.), Pearson Education 2012; ISBN: 0273758950; 9780273758952.

(or the most current versions of the texts)