Financial Management

This subject aims to offer the students the necessary bases to racionalize the companies’ financial problems,
seeking to present rigorously and deeply a conceptual and methodological framework for their analysis.

1.Introduction
1.1The financial management aims
1.2Financial management main tasks and decisions
1.3The external surrounding
2.The treasury management
2.1Treasury management basic principles
2.2Circulating capital fund needs’ management
2.3Characterisation of the main short-term financial applications
2.4Characterisation of the main short-term financing sources
3.Medium and Long-Term Financing and Capital Cost
3.1Characterisation of the main medium and long term financing sources
3.2The capital structure policies and its main determinants
3.3Risk, profitability and capital opportunity cost: the financial assets balance model
3.4Determination of the capital weighted average cost
4.Results Distribution Policies
5.Financial Planning

NAO

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