Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Mobilise expertise in at least one area of management.
• Master the principal decision-making processes of a company.
• Mobilise acquired skills in a specific professional environment.
• Professionally communicate and present original work both orally and in writing.
• Conduct scientific reasoning on complex or innovative management issues.
• Communicate and interact in a clear and structured manner, orally and in writing, on issues, analyses and projects.
• Act in an international and multicultural context.
• Demonstrate an open mind and adaption.
• Collaborate within a team and exercise leadership.
• Listen to team members and encourage expressing a shared opinion. Accept and discuss a different point of view than theirs.
• Prioritise responsible management practices.
• Act in compliance with specific legislative frameworks.
• In an active and integrated manner, master knowledge in the various fields of management and use them effectively in a professional context.
• Integrate highly specialised knowledge in different fields of management.
• Appropriately mobilise expertise taking into account the constraints and resources in the situation encountered.
• Be independent and regularly adapt to new contexts.
• Demonstrate independence and persevere, despite the difficulties or initial errors, to find an optimal solution.
• Understand interactions between companies and their socio-economic environments.
• Master and appropriately mobilise knowledge and methodological approaches to understand and explain interactions between companies and their environment.

Learning Outcomes of UE

The course will examine the nature and purpose of the firm and the determinants of its value, including particularly the impact of the policies and decisions of its Board and management. The practical application of selected modern theories concerning the operation of the core components of corporate financial policy, (those being the financial planning, investment policy, dividend policy, and capital structure of the firm) will be reviewed. The practices employed in the execution of selected corporate transactions will be examined from the perspective of shareholder value creation. Current notable market situations will be reviewed and discussed as they unfold. The course will only be based on business cases about companies. 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Capital Structure; Dividend Policy; Interaction between Financing and Investing Policies; Cost of Capital; Sustainable Growth

Prior Experience

 course of corporate finance

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face
• Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted in class
• Oral examination - Face-to-face
• Oral presentation - Face-to-face
• Seminar participation - Face-to-face

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

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Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE resit assessment (BAB1)

• Written examination - Face-to-face
• Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted in class
• Oral examination - Face-to-face
• Oral presentation - Face-to-face
• Seminar participation - Face-to-face

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

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Type(s) and mode(s) of Q3 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face
• Production (written work, report, essay, collection, product, etc.) - To be submitted in class
• Oral examination - Face-to-face
• Oral presentation - Face-to-face
• Seminar participation - Face-to-face

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

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