TRIBHUWAN UNIVERSITY 4 YEAR BBA SYLLABUS
FIN 201:
Business Finance (Credit Hours: 3)
BBA, Second Year, Third Semester
Course
Objective:
The basic objective of this
course is to impart basic knowledge and required skills of business finance to
students to understand the nature
and functions of finance and to professionally use the knowledge to
analyze financial issues and take
appropriate financial decisions and actions thereto.
Course
Description:
The course deals with nature of
finance functions, financial statement and cash flow analysis, time value
of money, risk and return, bond
and stock valuation, capital budgeting analysis, and working capital
management.
Course Details:
Unit 1:
Introduction: CH 3
Nature of business finance and
role of a financial manager; Goals of the firm; Finance functions;
The agency problem; Financial
markets and the firm.
Unit 2:
Financial Statements, Taxes, Cash Flow and Analysis: CH5
Nature of financial statements;
The balance sheet; The income statement; Cash flow; Common
size statements; Ratio analysis;
The Du Pont identity; Using financial statement information
Unit 3: The Time
Value of Money: CH 6
Concept of the time value of
money; Future value and compounding – single and multiple
periods; Present value and
discounting – single and multiple periods; Present value vs. future
value – multiple cash flows;
Finding number of periods; Loan amortization
.
Unit 4: Risk and
Return: CH
7
Nature of risk and return;
Expected returns and variances; portfolio analysis; Risk – systematic
and unsystematic; Diversification
and portfolio risk; Systematic risk and beta; The security
market line; The SML and the cost
of capital.
Unit 5: Bond
Valuation and Interest Rates: CH 5
Bonds and bonds valuation; Bond
ratings; Types of bonds; Bond markets; Inflation and interest
rates; Determinants of bond
yields.
Unit 6: Stock
Valuation: CH 7
Features of common and preferred
stocks; Common stock valuation – zero growth, constant
growth, nonconstant growth and
two stage growth; The stock markets – dealers and brokers,
organization of stock exchange
Unit 7: Capital
Budgeting Analysis: CH 8
Nature of capital expenditures;
Significance of capital budgeting; Techniques of capital budgeting
and decision rule – payback rule,
average accounting return, internal rate of return and
profitability analysis; Estimates
of project cash flows; Role of depreciation; Evaluating NPV
estimates; Replacement problems.
Unit 8:Working
Capital Management: CH 7
Nature and objectives of working
capital management; Cash management – objectives of cash
management and cash budget;
Receivables management – credit policy, credit period, cash
discount and analyzing credit
policy; Inventory management – nature of inventory, objectives of
inventory management, economic
order quantity and quantity discounts.
Basic Textbook:
Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W.
Westerfield and Bradford D. Jordan. Fundamentals of Corporate
Finance. New
Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd.
Reference Books:
James C. Van Horne and John M.
Wachowicz, Jr. Fundamentals of Financial Management. New
Delhi:
Prentice-Hall Limited.
Eugene F. Brigham and Joel F.
Houston. Fundamentals of Financial Management. Singapore:
Thomson, South-Western.
