Business Administration: Financial Planning and Analysis

<p>The overall aim of this course is that students are to attain basic knowledge about the acquisition and the use of economic resources in organizations.</p><p>The course focuses on resource allocation from an organizational perspective - particularly the relationship between shareholders demand on return on equity and top management decisions. The course topics are important to decision-making, for instance, in marketing, operations management, and corporate strategy. Furthermore, the course provides a framework, methods/models and concepts for financial planning and analysis based on fundamental principles of financial theory. The course<br/>covers financial planning, need of capital, inventory planning, investment decisions (capital budgeting), and financial analysis (financial performance measures). The section about capital budgeting covers net present value, equivalent annuity method, internal rate of return and pay-back.</p>