Section C

The General English course addresses the language needs of the students at the undergraduate level. The focus will be on five categories: Poetry, Prose, Pronunciation,  Vocabulary, and Grammar.  In addition to these, the last two segments of each unit are centered on the reading, speaking, and writing skills of the students. Overall the course will focus on skills acquisition with an added emphasis on the critical thinking faculties of the students concerning academic, political, literary, and ethical concepts. The syllabus has been designed to improve the communication skills of undergraduate students as a part of a comprehensive and holistic development that includes ethical, societal, and cultural concerns.

      COURSE HANDOUT

Faculty of Management

Program-Year-Semester-2023-2026: III SEMESTER

Academic Year: 2024-2025

Course code	303
Course type	DSE 303
Course Title	FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Teaching hours per week (Theory)	5
Lab hours per week	-
Credits	5

 1. Instructor Details:

Name                                             :       ANURADHA EMANI                                     

Email ID                                        :               anuradhaemani@stmaryscollege.in

About the Instructor  : While I’ve always felt driven to be a facilitator, the joy I felt from facilitating the growth and development of the students at St Mary’s College only reaffirmed my passion. Although I’ll continue to hone my teaching skills as I work in the classroom, I believe that my enthusiasm, positive attitude, and hands-on experience working with the students at  will make me an excellent educator. I look forward to a career where I can help shape young minds and make a difference in the lives of the kids in my own community.”

2. Course Details:

Course Summary: This course introduces students to the concepts and theories of corporate finance that underlie the techniques which are offered as aids for the understanding, evaluation and resolution of financial managers’ problems.

Course Objectives:

1. To learn about the scope and goal of financial management.

2. To familiarize the student with the concepts of long term and short-term investment

decisions.

3. To understand the sources of capital.

4. To learn about receivables and inventory management

Course Outcomes

1. To apply project appraisal methods to cash flows.

2. To understand the determinants of capital structure

3. To learn about dividend practices of companies

4. To calculate working capital requirements of firms

3. Syllabus:

UNIT – I : NATURE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT :

Finance and relation with other disciplines; Scope of Financial Management; Profit

Maximization Vs. Wealth Maximization Vs. Value Maximin Traditional and Modern

Approach of FM; Functions of finance – Objectives of Financial Management;

Investment Decision, Financing Decision, Current Assets Management Decision and

Dividend Decision - Organisation of finance function;

UNIT – II : CONCEPT OF TIME VALUE OF MONEY :

Concept of Time Value of Money, compounding, discounting, present value, future value,

and annuity; capital budgeting –meaning, features; applications of Discounted Cash

Flow (DCF) in capital budgeting, calculation of NPV and IRR

UNIT - III : SOURCES OF LONG TERM FINANCE :

Sources of Long term finance- features of equity shares, preference shares, debentures,

long term loans; Capital Structure – meaning, determinants of capital structure; cost of

capital – component costs of capital, weighted average cost of capital; Dividend Policy

Decision – types of dividend, determinants of dividend policy.

UNIT - IV: WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT :

Gross Vs net working capital, determinants of working capital; Management of Cash -

Preparation of Cash Budgets (Receipts and Payment Method only); Cash management

technique (Lock box, concentration banking)

UNIT - V: RECEIVABLES MANAGEMENT – OBJECTIVES :

Credit Policy, Cash Discount, Debtors Outstanding and Ageing Analysis; Inventory

Management - - ABC Analysis; Minimum Level; Maximum Level; EOQ (Basic Model);

Reorder Level; Safety Stock

4. Text Books/ Reference Books:

1. I M Pandey-Financial Management-Pearson 2022

2. M.Y Khan and Jain-Financial Management- Tata McGraw Hill,

3. Prasanna Chandra,“Financial Management Theory and Practice”, 7th Ed. Tata McGraw

Hill,

4. S.N Maheshwari- Financial Management-Vikas

5. Shah, Financial Management, Wiley

6. Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo, Ashok Thampy, “Financial Management”, Pearson.

7. Rajiv Srivastava and Anil Misra, “Financial Management” Oxford University Press

8. Brigham, E. F. and Ehrhardt. M. C., “Financial Management Theory and

Practice”,Thomson South-Western

6. Evaluation Scheme: .    

 There will be 2 internal exams of 15 marks each and one Assignment of 5 marks.

2.      Internal Exam Pattern: 10 MCQ type questions, 10 Fill in the blanks and 5 short answer type.

3.      There will be a Pre-final exam of 80 marks at the end of the course.

7. Instructions to Students(if any):

1.      Students are requested to be in class before Lecturer comes into the class room.

2.      Late entries (After 5 Minutes) into the class are strictly prohibited.

7. INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS

1.      The students will be asked to write a complete answer for two questions in each unit in A4 size papers.

2.      The students will be asked to solve the case study in either softcopy or in A4 size paper.

3.      There will be a Pre-final exam of 80 marks at the end of the course.

4.      Pre- final Pattern : For Short Answers Questions : need to answer 5 out of 8 Questions  5*4 =20,

4.      Pre- final Pattern : For Short Answers Questions : need to answer 5 out of 8 Questions  5*4 =20,

8.TEACHING METHODOLOGY:

1.      Lecture – chalk and talk method

2.      Activity based teaching

3.      PowerPoint presentations

4.      Discussion – group discussion/brain storming

5.      Case study

 

 

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