Financing and Risk Management (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Content topics:
- Alternative sources of financing for a company
- Budgeting and cash management
- Financial planning and alternatives
- Capital budgeting
- Risk management

Objective

The student is able to
- introduce alternative sources of financing for a company
- make up a short-term cash budget and utilize it in cash management
- chart the risk factors of a company and the methods of risk management related to them.

Content

- Financial planning and alternatives
- Cash management
- Capital budgeting
- Risk management and insurances
- Investment alternatives of a private person
- Financing International Business

Teaching methods

Course attendance and activity, quality of returned course assignments, points earned in examination.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Innopeda, student-centered learning, problem solving, flipped classroom.

Student workload

Course assignments will be described in Itslearning platform and introduced during the first teaching day.

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

All assignments will be evaluated by the teacher by using the grading scale 1-5. The grading is based on the contents of the course assignments. The final grade of the whole course is the mean of the grades of all course assignments done during the course.

Hylätty (0)

Student is not attending adequately or has not returned course assignments or has a poor performance in examination.

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1-2)

Student is attending adequately and has returned course assignments and has sub-par performance in examination.

Arviointikriteerit, hyvä (3-4)

Student is attending adequately and has returned course assignments and has good or very good level of performance in examination.

Arviointikriteerit, kiitettävä (5)

Student is attending adequately and has returned course assignments and has excellent level of performance in examination.

Further information

Course requires independent work and applying financial management theory to practice, for example by literature study plus applying the knowledge in course tasks.