YANBU UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
B.Sc. INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
COURSE SYLLABUS
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IMT 409
Financial Management
3 hours per week
3 hours
Dr. Haitham Ahmed Abdelmoneim
YUC, G2, Room no. 23.
ahmedh@rcyci.edu.sa
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to the role of Financial Management in modern
business organizations and the financial environment in which they operate. It deals
with Time Value of Money, Concept and Applications of Risk-Return trade-off and the
Management of Working Capital, Capital Asset Investments, Capital structure and
Dividend Policy. The course also provides insight into the working of Capital Markets,
raising Long Term and Short term Funds and International Financial Management
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
James. C. Van Horne, and John. M. Wachowicz, Jr., “Fundamentals of Financial
Management”, Prentice Hall, 13th Edition, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-273-71363-0.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will demonstrate competency by
being able to:
1. Explain the role of Financial Management in business organizations and the financial
environment in which they operate.
2. Discuss the concepts of Time Value of Money and the Risk-Return trade off and their
applications in Financial Management
3. Explain the meaning, importance and the mechanism of managing working capital.
4. Explain the Capital Budgeting process and techniques.
5. Discuss the meaning of capital structure, operating and financial leverage and capital
structure determination.
6. Explain the types of dividend policies, stock dividends and stock splits.
7. Describe sources of long term and short term funds and the concept of International
Finance.
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IMT 409 – FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
COURSE OUTLINE:
Module
Topic
Pages to
read from
required
textbook
1
Introduction to Financial Management
1) The role of Financial Management
2) Organization of finance function
3) Business and financial environment
Chapter 1:
pp. (1-13)
2
Time Value, Risk and Return
1) The concept of time value of money
2) Future value and present value of money
3) Concept of risk and return
4) Diversification and Capital Asset Pricing
Model (CAPM)
Chapter 3:
pp. (41-70)
Chapter 5:
pp. (97125)
Homework
Assignments
from required
textbook
Assignment# 1:
Page 14,
Questions no:
(2, 5, 8, 11, 12).
Assignment# 2:
1) Pp. 63-64,
Problems no:
(1, 2, 4, 8, 9).
2) Pp. 120-121:
Problems no: (1,
2, 4, 5)
Week
1-2
3-4
Quiz# 1 (5 marks): last class of week 5 on modules 1 & 2
Chapter 8:
Assignment# 3:
Working Capital Management
pp. (2051) Page 217:
1) Meaning, objectives and issues of working 219)
Problem no. 1
capital management
Chapter 9:
2) Page 246:
2) Management of cash and marketable pp. (2213
Problem no. 1
securities
247)
3) pp. 276-277:
3) Accounts
receivable
and
inventory chapter 10:
Problems no. 4 &
pp. (249management
7.
278)
Mid-Term Exam (25 marks): Last Class of Week 8
Modules (1, 2, 3)
Chapter 12: Assignment# 4:
Capital Budgeting
pp. (3071) Page 319:
1) Capital budgeting process
321)
Problem no. 1
4
2) Generating investment project proposals
Chapter 13: 2) Page 347:
3) Project evaluation and selection techniques
pp. (323Problems no. 1 &
349)
4.
Chapter 15:
Assignment# 5:
pp. (3811) Page 412:
415)
Capital Structure and Dividend Policy
Problem no. 1.
Chapter 16:
1) Cost of capital of the firm
2) Page 444:
5
pp. (4192) Operating and financial leverage
Problems no. 1 &
446)
3) Determination of capital structure
2.
Chapter 17:
3) Page 469:
pp. (451Problem no. 1.
471)
Chapter 19:
Assignment# 6:
pp. (5051) Page 524:
Sources of Finance
525)
Problem no. 1
1) Need for long term finance
Chapter 20:
2) Page 548:
2) Public issues, private placements, bonds, pp. (5276
Problem no. 1
preferred stocks and common stocks
550)
3) Page 572:
3) Term loans and lease financing
Chapter 21:
Problems no. 1 &
pp. (5533.
573)
5-7
8
9
11-12
13-14
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Quiz# 2 (5 marks): last class of week 14 on modules 5 & 6
Deadline for submission of the
6 homework assignments
Revision
Final Exam
15
16
STUDENT ASSESSMENT
The major components of this course grade include:
Quizzes (2 quizzes @ 5 marks each)
10 marks
Homework Assignments (6 assignments)
15 marks
Mid-Term Exam
25 marks
Final Exam
50 marks
The Quizzes and Mid-semester Exam will be administered in class as shown on the
attached weekly schedule. Makeup exam will be scheduled only in the event of
extreme, independently verifiable, and documentable reasons clearly beyond the
student’s control. To conduct a makeup exam or not, will be at the sole discretion of
the Students’ Affairs Department at YIC. A quiz will not be repeated and the student
absent will receive a grade ‘zero’.
The required Homework Assignments must be submitted in accordance with the
time-line provided within this syllabus. Late homework submissions will attract
deductions from the maximum marks.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Final course grades will be assigned according to the following scale:
Letter Grade
A+
A
B+
B
C+
C
D+
D
F
Average
95 – 100
90 – 94
85 – 89
80 – 84
75 – 79
70 – 74
65 – 69
60 – 64
Below 60
Dr. Haitham Ahmed Abdelmoneim
Coordinator, B.Sc. Program
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IMT 409 – FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Dr. Abdullah Faisal Basiouni
HoD, IMT department
September 2014
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