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MBA - Finance

Corporate Finance

Programme Objectives

The programme has the following aims:

  • To enable the advanced study of organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate
  • Equip individuals for and/or development of a career in business and management by developing skills at a professional or equivalent level to assume senior managerial and leadership positions in business
  • Development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of business and management to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management leadership and practice.
  • Enhancement of lifelong learning and personal development so as to be able to work with self-direction and originality and to contribute to business and society at large.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  • Demonstrate critical understanding of management theories, current issues of management, the development of conceptual frameworks to guide their application within organisations.
  • Acquire a strong foundation in key functional areas of business management to enable them to succeed as effective managers/leaders in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
  • Acquire and use a range of concepts, tools and techniques for problem solving and decision-making for analyzing complex and inter-related business scenarios.
  • Demonstrate and apply independent research and critical skills enabling the investigation and evaluation of valid and relevant management issues and practices.
  • Demonstrate initiative, insight, attitudes of responsibility and ethical leadership in the development of the strategic management agenda in the organization the participant works in or expected to work in the future.

Programme Content

Overview

This module is aimed at ensuring that the student can exercise judgement and technique to make value added decisions in corporate finance based on sound theoretical concepts.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able:

  • Identify and evaluate the appropriate sources of finance, their risks and cost to manage global risk;
  • Explain, demonstrate and recommend suitable risk management techniques to manage global risk;
  • Critically assess potential investment decisions and strategies in a global environment;
  • Evaluate the advantages in the globalisation of the investment process;

Syllabus

  • Risk analysis
  • Interest rate and Foreign Exchange rate risk
  • Business Valuations
  • Strategic implications of mergers
  • Post merger values
  • Exit strategies
  • Advanced Investment appraisal-Impact of global financing
  • Using exchange rates
  • Changing the capital structure
  • Use of CAPM and APT

Resources

  • Course Materials provided by IPE.
  • Brealey, R., and S. C. Myers. Principles of Corporate Finance. 8th Edition. Irvin McGraw-Hill.2009
  • Glen Arnold, Financial Times Handbook of Corporate Finance, 2nd Edition, 2010, Pearson Education
  • Online resources on OCTAL Portal
  • Online data bases from IPE’s E Library