Aims & Learning Objectives:
The aims of this unit are to provide students with the knowledge and understanding of the uses and management of accounting and finance.The learning objectives are for students to:
a. Be critically aware of where the Finance and Accounting activities fit into a business;
b. Be able to practically contribute to the attainment of a company's financial and business strategies and objectives.
Content:
Financial Management: financing decisions- sources and costs of capital, capital structure and optimal financial policy, investment decisions- capital budgeting, risk and uncertainty, capital rationing , market valuation and working capital management.Financial Control: the nature of control, cost control, the behavioural aspects of financial control systems. Financial control in the context of broader aspects of organisational control for different elements of the business and different types of business. Understanding the accounts, profit and loss and balance sheets.
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