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Philadelphia University
Faculty of Administrative & Financial Sciences
Department of Banking & Finance
semester, academic year 2014/2015
Course syllabus
Course title: Principles of finance
Course code: 0320110
Course level: Faculty Requirement Course prerequisite (s) and/or corequisite (s): none
Lecture time:
13:10-14:00 (sun, tue, thu)
Credit hours:3
8:15-9:30 (mon, wed)
Academic
Staff
Specifics
Office
Name
Rank
number
and
Office hours
E-mail address
location
Lubna Khalaf
Lecturer
31204
10-11 (sun, tue, thu)
11:30-12:30 (mon, wed)
lkhalaf@philadelfia.edu.jo
Course module description:
This course includes the following topics: financial goals; financing the firm via short,
intermediate, and long-term debt, preferred and common stock.
Course module objectives:
1. To provide streamlined overview of principles of finance.
2. Identifying the main objectives of corporation.
3. Explain the alternative forms of business organizations.
4. Understand short-term finance management, net working capital, and related tradeoff
between profitability and risk
5. Describe the cash conversion cycle, and the key strategies for managing it
6. Discuss inventory management, credit selection process, and managing receipts and
disbursements.
Course/ module components
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Books (title , author (s), publisher, year of publication)
Lawrence Gitman, The Principles of Managerial Finance, eleventh edition
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Support material (s) (vcs, acs, etc).
Study guide (s) (if applicable)
Homework and laboratory guide (s) if (applicable).
Teaching methods:
Lectures, discussion groups, tutorials, problem solving, debates, etc.
Learning outcomes:
 Knowledge and understanding
 Cognitive skills (thinking and analysis).
 Communication skills (personal and academic).
 Practical and subject specific skills (Transferable Skills).
Assessment instruments
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Short reports and/ or presentations, and/ or Short research projects
Quizzes.
Homework
Final examination: 50 marks
Allocation of Marks
Assessment Instruments
Mark
First examination
20
Second examination
20
Final examination
40
Reports, research projects, quizzes, homework,
20
Projects
Total
100
Documentation and academic honesty
 Documentation style (with illustrative examples)
 Protection by copyright
 Avoiding plagiarism.
Course/module academic calendar
week
(1)
Basic and support material to
be covered
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Introduction to
principles of finance
Finance and business
The managerial finance
function
The role and environment
Homework/re
ports and
their due
dates
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of managerial finance
Goals of the firm
Financial institutions and
markets
Corporate Bonds
Legal aspects of corporate
bonds
General features of a bond
issue
Bond ratings popular
types of bonds
International bond issues
Review questions
Stocks
Differences between debt
and equity capital
Voice in management
Claims on income and
assets maturity
Common and preferred
stocks
Common stock
Preferred stock
Issuing common stock
Review
Working Capital
Management
Net working capital
fundamentals
The tradeoff between
profitability and risk
Review
Cash management
The cash conversion cycle
Funding requirements of
the cash conversion cycle
Strategies of managing the
cash cycle
Review
Inventory Management
Differing viewpoints
about inventory level
Common techniques for
managing inventory
Review
Accounts Receivable
Management
Credit selection and
standards
Credit terms
Credit monitoring
Review
Management of Receipts
and Disbursements
First
examination
Second
examination
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Float
Speeding up collections
Slowing down payments
Cash concentrations
Zero-balance accounts
Investing in marketable
securities
Review
Review
Specimen
examination
(Optional)
(16)
Final Exam
Final Examination
Expected workload:
On average students need to spend 2 hours of study and preparation for each 50-minute
lecture/tutorial.
Attendance policy:
Absence from lectures and/or tutorials shall not exceed 15%. Students who exceed the 15%
limit without a medical or emergency excuse acceptable to and approved by the Dean of the
relevant college/faculty shall not be allowed to take the final examination and shall receive
a mark of zero for the course. If the excuse is approved by the Dean, the student shall be
considered to have withdrawn from the course.
Module references
Books
1. Khan and Ghraibeh, Financial management Jordan book center, 2001
2. Essential of managerial finance “thirteenth edition, by: Scott Besley, Eugence
F.Brigham 2005
Journals
1. Journal of finance
2. Journal of business & economics
Websites
http://finance.yahoo.com
http://www.stockresearch.com