2023
Financial Management
Name: Financial Management
Code: GES02333L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Management
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
OBJECTIVES:
- Develop an understanding of the tools that are used to value investments and firms.
- Understand the basic issues involved in how firms should raise funds for the real investments.
- Evaluate how investment and financing decisions are related and their effects on dividend policy.
- Know the practice of financial decision of firms in Portugal.
SKILLS:
Intellectual Skills:
- Capacity for teamwork in companies;
- Desire to study the evolution of financial facts;
- Ability to handle and apply the techniques and tools for evaluating financial decisions;
- Ability to financial decision.
Practical Skills:
- Ability to research in finance;
- Ability to apply knowledge in a future work in the financial sector.
Interpersonal Skills:
- Ability of oral and writing communication.
Instrumental Competencies:
- Ability to use information technology in research work in the major financial sites.
- Develop an understanding of the tools that are used to value investments and firms.
- Understand the basic issues involved in how firms should raise funds for the real investments.
- Evaluate how investment and financing decisions are related and their effects on dividend policy.
- Know the practice of financial decision of firms in Portugal.
SKILLS:
Intellectual Skills:
- Capacity for teamwork in companies;
- Desire to study the evolution of financial facts;
- Ability to handle and apply the techniques and tools for evaluating financial decisions;
- Ability to financial decision.
Practical Skills:
- Ability to research in finance;
- Ability to apply knowledge in a future work in the financial sector.
Interpersonal Skills:
- Ability of oral and writing communication.
Instrumental Competencies:
- Ability to use information technology in research work in the major financial sites.
Contents
Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - The financial planning and the investment decision
Module 3 - The financing decision
Module 4 - The decision of capital structure
Module 5 - The decision of dividends
Module 6 - Financial Markets and Firms Valuation
Module 2 - The financial planning and the investment decision
Module 3 - The financing decision
Module 4 - The decision of capital structure
Module 5 - The decision of dividends
Module 6 - Financial Markets and Firms Valuation
Teaching Methods
The teaching of the course follows a type of methodology of "learning by doing" where information and communication technologies play a crucial role. The presentation and discussion of each point of the program will be monitored for conducting exercises or cases, individually or in groups. It also aims to promote the systematic behavior of obtaining extra information required readings and bibliographic and stimulate reflection and critique through the analysis and resolution of practical cases and the study of national firms.
In implementing this project the teaching / learning is particularly relevant the availability of access to key financial sites and databases of firms.The evaluation rules adopted in this course follow the general rule of the REI and meet the specific requirements imposed by the Board of Management Department. Thus, students can opt for:
- Continuous Assessment:
A Working Group and two written tests.
- Examination:
Written test.
In implementing this project the teaching / learning is particularly relevant the availability of access to key financial sites and databases of firms.The evaluation rules adopted in this course follow the general rule of the REI and meet the specific requirements imposed by the Board of Management Department. Thus, students can opt for:
- Continuous Assessment:
A Working Group and two written tests.
- Examination:
Written test.
Teaching Staff
