Course detail
Financial Management for Informatics
FP-IfmiPAcad. year: 2022/2023
Financial management:
- Place in business management, business content, information requirements
Evaluating the financial stability and performance of the company.
Financial planning
- Strategic investment decisions
- Strategic financial decisions (optimization of capital structure)
Operational financial management:
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
1) know:
• orientate oneself on the sources of corporate financing and know methods of assessing benefit funding sources;
• know the appropriate criteria for evaluation of results (performance) of corporation and implement them in the IS business;
2) be able to do
• Identify and use relevant information from the accounting and financial markets to monitoring the financial situation of the company and creating financial plan;
• Implement methods to evaluate efficiency of investment projects in IS business;
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Student have to achieve at least 50% of the possible number of points.
Exam is classified according to ECTS scale.
Course curriculum
Strategic financial management:
- Place in business management, business content, information requirements
- Strategic investment decisions
- Strategic financial decisions
- Information security strategic financial decisions
Operational financial management
- Management of solvency
- Credit management - creation and maintenance of databases
- Short-term investments - cash management models, automated systems liquidity management, cash pooling
- Short-term financial planning - information support, modeling financial plan
Work placements
Aims
• highlight the importance of defining financial targets, and to familiarize students with different ways to define them;
• provide information about measurement methods of defined target;
• develop students' awareness of the possibility of external financing (financial market) and factors (criteria) influencing decisions about the using of financial resources;
• present the approaches used in the Capital Planning and assessing the economic efficiency of investment projects;
• highlight the potential risks in the financial and investment decisions and its minimization.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
FOTR, J. Strategické finanční plánování. Praha: Grada, 1999. 149 s. ISBN 80-7169-694-3. (CS)
KISLINGEROVÁ, E., HNILICA, J. Finanční analýza krok za krokem. Praha: C.H.Beck. 2008. 135 s. ISBN 978-80-7179-713-5 (CS)
SYNEK, M., KOPKANĚ, H., KUBÁKOVÁ, M. Manažerské výpočty a ekonomická analýza. Prha: C.H.Beck, 2009, 301. ISBN 978-80-7400-154-3 (CS)
VALACH, J. Investiční rozhodování a dlouhodobé financování. 2. přeprac. vyd. Praha: Ekopress, 2005. 465 s. ISBN 80-86929-01-9. (CS)
Recommended reading
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. a kol. Řízení platební schopnosti podniku. Praha: Grada, 2010. 200 s. ISBN ISBN 978-80-247-3441-5 (CS)
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. Efektivní financování rozvoje podnikání. Praha: Grada, 2012. ISBN 978-80-247-1835-9 (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-SI Master's
branch MGR-IM , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's
branch BIT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Financial analysis. Analysis of ROE.
3. Financial planning.
4. Investment decision making. Risks of investment projects.
5. Financial strategy - capital structure optimization.
6. Company solvency management. Net working capital management
a. Credit management. Discount.
b. Cash management. Foreign exchange risk management.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Financial Analysis.
3. Financial planning.
4. Methods of Leasing and Loan Comparation.
5. Methods for investment projects assessment – their utilization and risks.
6. NWC management.
7. Conclusion test