2025
Corporate Financial Management
Name: Corporate Financial Management
Code: GES12640M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Management
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
OBJECTIVES:
- To consolidate the methodologies and techniques of the financial decisions of investment evaluation, financing and distribution of dividends.
- To know the main problems and objectives of the Financial Theory.
- To know the theories and conceptual framework of research in Corporate Finance.
SKILLS:
Intellectual Skills:
-Capacity to analyse a scientific paper of empirical research in corporate finance.
- Capacity for teamwork.
Pratical Skills:
- Ability to financial decision making.
- Ability to search in bibliographic databases.
Interpersonal Skills:
-Ability of oral and writing communication.
Instrumental Skills:
-Ability to use information technology in research work in the major financial sites.
- To consolidate the methodologies and techniques of the financial decisions of investment evaluation, financing and distribution of dividends.
- To know the main problems and objectives of the Financial Theory.
- To know the theories and conceptual framework of research in Corporate Finance.
SKILLS:
Intellectual Skills:
-Capacity to analyse a scientific paper of empirical research in corporate finance.
- Capacity for teamwork.
Pratical Skills:
- Ability to financial decision making.
- Ability to search in bibliographic databases.
Interpersonal Skills:
-Ability of oral and writing communication.
Instrumental Skills:
-Ability to use information technology in research work in the major financial sites.
Contents
1 - The foundations of the Financial Theory
2 Capital budgeting topics
3 Topics about financing decision and capital structure theory
4 - Topics on the decision and dividend policy theory
2 Capital budgeting topics
3 Topics about financing decision and capital structure theory
4 - Topics on the decision and dividend policy theory
Teaching Methods
The presentation and discussion of each point of the program will be accompanied by the practical accomplishment of exercises or cases, individually or in group. It also intends to promote the obligatory systematic behaviour of obtaining information extra readings and consulting bibliographical and to stimulate the reflection and the critic through the analysis and resolution of practical cases and the study of financial theories.
In the materialization of this teach/learning project it assumes private relevance the availability of all the contents in a moodle page of the discipline and the access readiness to the main financial sites and data bases of companies.
In the materialization of this teach/learning project it assumes private relevance the availability of all the contents in a moodle page of the discipline and the access readiness to the main financial sites and data bases of companies.
Assessment
The evaluation includes a work group (AEF), the individual Analysis of Article (AIA), and the Individual Exam (TI). The final grade (FG) correspond to the classification resulting from the application of the following weighting:
FG = 0.35 AEF + 0.30 AIA + 0.35 TI
The students may choose to do an individual written test at the end of the semester (100% of final mark).
FG = 0.35 AEF + 0.30 AIA + 0.35 TI
The students may choose to do an individual written test at the end of the semester (100% of final mark).
Teaching Staff (2024/2025 )
- Jacinto António Setúbal Vidigal da Silva [responsible]
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