Finance & Governance

mlsmm2112  2023-2024  Mons

Finance & Governance
5.00 credits
30.0 h
Q1
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Teacher(s)
D'Hondt Catherine;
Language
French
Main themes
  • The financial structure of the company
  • Distribution policy
  • Business valuation
  • Long-term and short-term business financing
  • Corporate governance
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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  • analyze the financial structure of a company and explain its challenges;
  • analyze a company's distribution policy;
  • to estimate the value of a project or a company by integrating the complexity of the real world;
  • analyze the long-term and short-term financial policy of a company;
  • define corporate governance and explain the issues.
 
Content
  • Corporate finance and CFO's roles in an evolving environment
  • Conceptual fundamentals of corporate finance
  • Capital budgeting and project valuation
  • Capital structure and long-term financial planning
  • Working capital management
  • Short-term financial planning
  • Corporate governance and its key challenges
Teaching methods
  • Lectures
  • Case studies
     
Evaluation methods
Within this course, students' skills assessment is twofold :
• Ongoing assessment with mandatory homeworks (case studies) to deliver during the semester (25% of the final grade)
• Written exam with open questions at mid-semester (75% of the final grade)
The grade of the homeworks is not longer taken into account in case of second session (resit exam=100% of the grade).
Bibliography
  • Vernimmen, Quiry & Le Fur, Finance d’entreprise, 20e édition (Dalloz, 2022)
  • Berk & DeMarzo, Finance d’entreprise (version française), Pearson, 5e édition, 2020
Faculty or entity
> CLSM


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] in Management
GESM2M
5
Master [60] in Management
GESM2M1
5