Financial Management II is an advanced level course. Topics covered in this course include corporate governance evaluation and valuation implications, financial statement analysis and financial planning, capital budgeting and projection evaluation, cost of capital, identifying and valuing options, working capital and short-term asset management, short-term and medium-term financing, long-term financing, operating and financial leverage, capital structure determination theories, dividend policy and mergers and acquisitions.

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Discuss corporate finance theories and models.
2. Apply financial tools and models to solve financial issues and problems facing corporate firms.
3. Demonstrate competence in financial analyses and analytical results.
4. Demonstrate analytical and critical thinking skills in the application and solution of financial models and problems.
5. Discuss the different terms of financing and their application.
6. Describe capital structure theory and application.
7. Describe how to consider shareholders in corporate financial planning and decisions.

1. An overview of financial management
2. Capital budgeting and project evaluation
3. Analyzing investment risk
4. Relationships between investments: portfolio theory
5. Setting the risk premium: the capital asset pricing model
6. Enterprise value and equity value
7. Identifying and valuing options
8. Working capital and short-term asset management.
9. Short-term and medium-term financing
10. Long-term financing
11. Returning value to shareholders: the dividend decisions
12. Capital structure and the required return
13. Capital structure theorems
14. Mergers and acquisitions and structuring

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• Moyer, R. C., McGuigan, J. R. and Rao, R. P. (2018). Contemporary financial management. 14^th Edition. Boston, Cengage Learning.
• Brigham, E. E. and Houston, F. J. (2019). Fundamentals of financial management. 15^th Edition. Canada, Cengage Learning.