CIMA Lectures
Financial Strategy
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A: FINANCIAL POLICY DECISIONS
Chapter 1 Financial and Non-Financial Objectives
1.1 Introduction (7m)
1.3 Objectives of entities (10m)
1.4 Examples (6m)
2.1 Evaluation of financial objectives - Ratios and growth trends (12m)
2.2 Evaluation of financial objectives - Investor ratios (1) (20m)
2.2 Evaluation of financial objectives - Investor ratios (2) (7m)
2.3 Evaluation of financial objectives - Economic changes (20m)
2.4 Evaluation of financial objectives - Foreign exchange rates (5m)
Chapter 2 Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
1 Sustainability and Integrated Reporting - Introduction (12m)
2 Sustainability (GRI) (20m)
3 Integrated Reporting and Examples (31m)
Chapter 3 Financial Management Policy Decisions
1 Financial Management Policy Decisions - Introduction (15m)
2.1 Hedging - Introduction (14m)
2.2 Hedging - Cash flow hedge accounting (13m)
2.3 Hedging - Fair value hedge accounting (8m)
2.4 Hedging - Net investment hedge (17m)
2.5 Hedging - Criteria and effectiveness (21m)
3 Financial instruments - Disclosure (IFRS 7) (8m)
B: SOURCES OF LONG-TERM FINANCE
Chapter 4 Capital Structure of a Firm
1. Capital structure (theories) (32m)
2. Capital structure (formulae) (12m)
Chapter 5 Long-Term Debt Finance
1. Long term debt finance (20m)
2. Returns on debt finance and debt covenants (7m)
3. Swaps (1) (20m)
4. Swaps (2) (8m)
5. Convertibles and warrants (20m)
6. Lease or buy (21m)
Chapter 6 Equity finance
1. New share issues (public issue) (24m)
2. New share issues (rights issue and other issues) (21m)
3. TERP and impact on shareholder wealth (5m)
4. Yield adjusted theoretical ex-rights price (9m)
5. Unquoted companies and further share issues (11m)
Chapter 7 Dividend Policy
Dividend Policy (22m)
C: FINANCIAL RISKS
Chapter 8
Sources and Types of Financial Risks (coming soon)
Chapter 9
Currency Risk Management (coming soon)
Chapter 10
Interest Rate Risk Management (coming soon)
D: BUSINESS VALUATION
Chapter 11 Implications of acquisitions, mergers and divestments
Mergers and acquisitions (1) (26m)
Mergers and acquisitions (2) (15m)
Chapter 12 Divestments
Divestments (21m)
Chapter 13 Entity valuation – Theoretical Approach
1. Equity valuation - no growth (8m)
2. Equity valuation - constant growth (5m)
3. Free cash flow - introduction (12m)
4. Free cash flow - example (6m)
5. Free cash flow and valuation (15m)
6. Valuation of debt (15m)
Chapter 14 Entity Valuation – Practical Issues
1. Entity valuation - Practical issue (introduction) (8m)
2. Net assets and intangibles valuations (15m)
3. Earnings valuations (15m)
Chapter 15 Pricing Issues and Post-Transaction Issues
Pricing issues and post-transaction issues (11m)
Chapter 16 Systematic Risk and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
1. Introduction (12m)
2. CAPM (1) (14m)
4. CAPM (3) - Investment appraisal (6m)
5. Alpha values (5m)
6. Geared and ungeared betas (1) (20m)
7. Geared and ungeard betas (2) (20m)