MB-2-019 (0) - Finance in a Management context

• International business management - a nordic focus 2016 - Marketing management
• International business management 2017 - Business management
• International business management 2018 - Business management

• 1 (2018-08-01 to 2018-10-21)
• 2 (2018-10-22 to 2018-12-31)

English

Compulsory

Second

1

5 cr

The aim of the course is to enable the student to
manage the activities in a way so that the
company
can focus on and succeed in its core activity.
This means the student must understand the
mechanics of liquidity and profitability,know
where and how to seek funding, prepare various
financial analyses and supervise outsourced
activities such as financial accounting.

The student will have a good understanding of the
key elements of financial management in a small
or
mid-size company, with a focus on the Nordic
market. The student will be able to manage the
main financial management activities, including
seeking funding, budgeting, liquidity planning
and
profitability analysis.

The income statement - how does it work
Cash flow analysis
Seeking of funding, funding alternatives
Cost accounting/profitability analysis
Investment calculations

Tracy, John A., and Tage Tracy. The Comprehensive
Guide on How to Read a Financial Report :
Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers, John
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014. ProQuest Ebook
Central,
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/arcada External link-
ebooks/detail.action?docID=1599323.
Vernimmen, Pierre, et al. Corporate Finance :
Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons,
Incorporated, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central,
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/arcada External link-
ebooks/detail.action?docID=1800877.
Annual Reports
The course literature is not limited to
the literature listed. The student can freely use
alternative literature with similar contents.

• Lectures - 32 hours
• Individual studies - 103 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Participation in tuition

Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

Examination through 5 small individual
assignments
submitted to itslearning. Note that there are
pre-
assignments, to be handed in before the lectures!

Each assignment gives 0-2 points
A fairly good one = 2
A pretty bad one = 1
No submission, late submission, email-submission,
copy-paste = 0

Grading
10-9 points -> 5
8 points -> 4
7 points -> 3
6 points -> 2
5 points -> 1
Below 5 -> fail

Plagiarism or cheating severely punished ->
kicked
out from course

Grades cannot be improved on, given grade stays

Stenius Andreas

Stenius Andreas

https://arcada.itslearning.com/ External link

No limit (31 students enrolled)

12 months after course has ended

2018-08-13 to 2018-09-09

Date will be announced later - Reports and productions