UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BMBFM05

Strategic Financial Management

L-T-P3-0-0 Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

MBA General · Sem 4 (Specialization: Financial Management (FM))

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Syllabus

5 units
Unit1

Unit 1: 8 Hours

Strategic Financial Management: Objectives and Functions. Valuation of Securities- Approaches to corporate valuation, valuation of equities including cash flow, dividend earning approach, valuation of debts and preference shares.

Unit2

Unit 2: 8 Hours

Capital Structure: factors affecting capital structure, Capital structure theories. Operating Leverage, Financial Leverage and Combined Leverage, EBIT and EPS analysis, ROI and ROE analysis.

Unit3

Unit 3: 8 Hours

Dividend policy: Factors affecting dividend decisions. Theories of Dividend polices, corporate dividend behaviour of companies, Legal and procedural aspects.

Unit4

Unit 4: 8 Hours

Institutional setup for term finance and working capital finance: term lending institutions and commercial banks, NBFCs..Commercial Banking, Working Capital, Venture Capital Venture capital funds: Stages in Venture capital financing, Business plan, elements of a business plan, the process of venture capital financing, methods of venture capital financing, future. Prospects of venture capital financing.

Unit5

Unit 5: 8 Hours

  • Project planning and analysis: project - Meaning and concept - Project life cycle - generation and screening of ideas - Analysis of market and demand - Technical and Financial Analysis
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Course Objectives5 points
  • To understand the basic knowledge of financial management and its functions, frameworks, and tools of strategic financial management
  • To apply financial strategies for investment, financing, and dividend decisions in alignment with organizational goals.
  • To analyze capital structure, cost of capital, risk-return trade-offs, and their impact on shareholder value to evaluate alternative investment proposals.
  • To evaluate the knowledge of factors influencing dividend, capital structure, working capital of a firm.
  • To develop innovative financial strategies for value creation, long-term sustainability, and competitive advantage.
Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Understand the basic knowledge of financial management and its functions. (Understanding)K2
  2. CO2Apply financial strategies for investment, financing, and dividend decisions in alignment with organizational goals. (Applying)K3
  3. CO3Analyze capital structure, cost of capital, risk-return trade-offs, and their impact on shareholder value to evaluate alternative investment proposals.. K4 (Analyzing),K5
  4. CO4Evaluate the knowledge of factors influencing dividend, capital structure, working capital of a firm (Evaluating)K5
  5. CO5Develop innovative financial strategies for value creation, long-term sustainability, and competitive advantage . (Creating)K6

Reference Books

  1. Rajiv Srivastava and Anil Misra- Financial Management-OXFORDUniversity Press.
  2. Prasannachandra -Financial Management- Tata Mc GrawHill
  3. I M Pandey -Financial Management-Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Lt. New Delhi
  4. Lawrence D. Schall &Charles W. Haley -Introduction to Financial Management-McGraw Hill. OPERATION MANAGEMENT (OM) GROUP

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 69, 70, 72 of the original AKTU PDF.

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