This course develops strategic insight into corporate financial management, emphasizing how firms structure capital, evaluate investments, and align financial choices with long-term value creation and economic stability.

By the end of this course, you should able to:

ELO1: Evaluate the role of corporate finance and capital structure in financial decision-making and firm strategy.

ELO2: Analyse capital budgeting techniques, cost of capital calculations, and risk management strategies under certainty and uncertainty.

ELO3: Assess the impact of mergers, acquisitions, dividend policies, and corporate restructuring on firm growth and shareholder value.

Introduction to Corporate Finance: Concept of corporate finance and goals of the firm, financial management decisions, functions of a finance manager, agency theory; 

Capital Structure Decisions: Capital structure concept and importance, sources of capital, capital structure theories, financing proposals evaluation;

 Capital Budgeting Decisions and Cost of Capital: Capital budgeting concept and process, capital budgeting techniques, cost of capital and its components, risk analysis and real options in capital budgeting; 

Working Capital Management: Working capital concepts and determinants, liquidity measurement and cash conversion cycle, working capital components management including receivables inventory and payables, profitability–liquidity trade-off and working capital strategies; 

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Growth: Motives and forms of corporate restructuring including mergers acquisitions leveraged buyouts and divestitures, valuation techniques in mergers and acquisitions, post-merger evaluation and integration, corporate growth measurement and performance; 

Dividend Policy Decisions: Dividend policy concepts and types, dividend theories, factors affecting dividend policy, forms of dividend and payout decisions; 

Islamic Finance: Introduction to Islamic finance principles, ethical investing in Islamic finance, Islamic financial products including sukuk musharaka and others, risk sharing and Shariah compliance; 

Green and Environmental Finance: Introduction to green finance, carbon trading and emissions markets, environmental financial instruments, trends and global regulations in sustainable finance; 

Corporate Risk Management: Concepts and types of corporate risk, risk measurement techniques including VaR and CVaR, risk management techniques and instruments, risk management and corporate governance; 

Financial Restructuring and Corporate Strategy: Corporate restructuring concepts and methods, financial distress and turnaround strategies, corporate strategy and value implications, impact of restructuring on share prices.