Course Details

Financial Management

Academic Year 2025/26

DVB070 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-E Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-E Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-E Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-E Summer Semester 1st year

The course will focus on the presentation of current theoretical trends in corporate finance and its feasibility in practice. The main themes included in the subject teaching will be based on the theory of value management in business finance, i.e. in particular the presentation of approaches to determining the value of an enterprise, the study of mergers and acquisitions, optimisation of capital structure of a company, determination of capital costs, business performance factors and the enterprise's payment risk.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Knowledge of business finance at Masters level.

Basic Literature

BRIGHAM, E. F. & M. C. EHRHARDT. Financial Management. Theory and practice. 13. ed. USA: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4390-7810-5. (en)
DAMODARAN, A. Investment valuation: tools and techniques for determining the value of any asset. 3rd Edition. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley, 2012. 974 s. ISBN 9781118011522. (en)

Recommended Reading

MAŘÍK, M. a kol. Metody oceňování podniku: Proces ocenění, základní metody a postupy. 4. vyd. Praha: Ekopress, 2018. 551 s. ISBN 978-80-87865-38-5. (cs)
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. Efektivní financování rozvoje podnikání. Praha: Grada, 2012, 142 s. ISBN 978-80-247-1835-4. (cs)
REŽŇÁKOVÁ, M. a kol. Řízení platební schopnosti podniku. Praha: Grada, 2010. 190 s. ISBN 978-80-247-3441-5. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Corporate financial goals from a variety of perspectives, including behavioral.
  • 2.-3. Measuring and evaluating business performance
  • 4.-6. Businesses valuation and value drivers identification
  • 7.-9. Capital structure, costs of capital
  • 10.-11. Mergers and acquisitions efficiency
  • 12.-13. Debt financing, solvency management and bankruptcy prediction.