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Course, academic year 2022/2023
  
Advanced Topics in Financial Management - AM501017
Title: Advanced Topics in Financial Management
Guaranteed by: Department of Economics and Management (837)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2020 to 2024
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:3
E-Credits: summer s.:3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Vlachý Jan doc. Ing. Ph.D.
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Course completion requirements -

Active participation in lectures (min. 3/4), homework, final project.

Last update: Vlachý Jan (19.06.2025)
Literature

R: Ogden, J.P., Jen, F.C., O’Connor, P.F. Advanced Corporate Finance: Policies and Strategies. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2003.

R: Vlachý, J. Corporate Finance. Praha: Leges, 2019.

R: Study materials provided for individual lectures.

A: Madura, J., Fox, R. International Financial Management. London: Thomson Learning, 2007.

A: Damodaran, A. Applied Corporate Finance. 4th ed. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2015.

A: Ehrhardt, M.C., Brigham, E.F. Financial Management: Theory and Practice. 13th ed. Mason: S-W Cengage, 2011.

Last update: Švecová Lenka (13.05.2022)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Aktivní účast na přednáškách, domácí úkoly, závěrečný projekt.

Last update: Vlachý Jan (19.06.2025)
Syllabus

The course completes and expands various topics that have previously been taught in courses of the Financial Management concentration.

1. Capital Structure Decisions, Theory and Practice

2. Dividends, Distributions and Stock Repurchases

3. Advanced Financing Strategies and their Application

4. Structured and Asset-Based Finance, Hybrid Financing

5. Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestitures, Financial Restructuring

6. M&A Decisions and Valuation

7. Limited Liability, Agency and Information Asymmetry

8. Agency in the Context of Corporate Value and Corporate Governance

9. International Financial Management - Concepts

10. International Financial Management - Execution

11. Industry-Specific Issues in Financial Management

12. Practitioners' Cases in Financial Management

13. A Review of Corporate Financial Issues and their Application

14. Consultations on Selected Topics

Last update: Vlachý Jan (19.06.2025)
 
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