Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Business School
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
6008LBSBSC-JAN-MTP
Aims
The aim of this module is to enable students to evaluate corporate financial decisions that form an essential part of strategic decision making and a project business case – funding, financial investment appraisal, financial control, risk management and performance evaluation.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically analyse the impact of macro-economics on strategic decision making and the design/implementation of new projects.
2.
Examine potential investment decisions and assess their financial and strategic consequences, both domestically and internationally.
3.
Critically evaluate potential investment decisions and assess their financial and strategic consequences, both domestically and internationally.
4.
Determine and apply a range of financial models to the critical appraisal and selection of projects and growth strategies, including asset replacement, mergers & acquisitions.
5.
Identify business problems/financial risks and suggest strategies to reduce/eliminate such risks.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:• Project Funding – Special Purpose Vehicles, Equity & Debt Financing, Recourse & Non-recourse Finance
• The Cost of Capital – WACC, CAPM, Arbitrage Pricing
• Forecasting Project Cashflows from Network Analysis/Critical Path
• Investment Appraisal Techniques – RoI, Payback, ARR, NPV, IRR etc.
• Economic Analysis – Cost/Benefit & Sustainability
• Financial Risk Management – Identification, Evaluation and Management
• Asset Replacement Decisions
• Financing & Evaluating Merger & Acquisitions
• Project Evaluation - Earned Value Analysis; Return on Equity ROE; Debt Service Coverage Ratios (DSCRs);
Governments and Value for Money (VfM)
• Financial Restructuring Decisions
Module Overview:
The aim of this module is to enable you to evaluate corporate financial decisions that form an essential part of strategic decision making and a project business case funding, financial investment appraisal, financial control, risk management and performance evaluation.
The aim of this module is to enable you to evaluate corporate financial decisions that form an essential part of strategic decision making and a project business case funding, financial investment appraisal, financial control, risk management and performance evaluation.
Additional Information:The critically evaluation of the financial implications of strategic options enabling sound and evidence based strategic financial and project management decisions.