Financial Management


COURSE OUTLINE

  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL ACTICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
LEVEL OF STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE
COURSE CODE ECO0013 SEMESTER 6th
COURSE TITLE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
INTEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
in case that the ECTS credits are awarded in distinctive parts of the class, etc: lectures, laboratorial exercises. When the credit units are awarded for the total class, write the weekly teaching hours and the total ECTS credits
WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS ECTS CREDITS
Lectures and Laboratory Exercises / Practice Exercises 4 5
 
 
COURSE TYPE

Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

SCIENTIFIC AREA / DIRECTION
PREREQUISITES:

 

TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: GREEK
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: NO
COURSE URL: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/OPE01246/

 

  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
 

The aim of the course is to equip students with the basic concepts of financial management and in particular financial institutions, financial statement analysis, as well as costs, risk and capital management.

 

By the end of this course the students will be able to:

 

Know and understand the basic concepts of financial management
Apply the basic principles of financial management to agricultural enterprises
Have understood and appreciated the importance of risk analysis in decision making
Combine their knowledge and examine branches of the agri-food sector
Analyze and interpret financial statements
Compile / analyze ratios and balance sheets of companies mainly in the agri-food sector

 

General Skills
 

Individual work
Team project
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
Decision making
Working in an international environment
Production of new research ideas
Exercise criticism and self – criticism

 

 

  1. COURSE CONTENT
Week            Thematic Lecture Unit

 

1. Basic concepts and definitions
2. Principles and methods of financial management
3. Analysis of net cash flows
4. Dead spot analysis
5. Sensitivity analysis
6. Basic financial statements
7. Analysis and evaluation of indicators
8. Analysis of financial status
9. Valuation of bonds. Stocks. Stock valuation models.
10. Leverage – Profitability
11. Financial institutions, organizations and tools.
12. Management of invested funds for maximum return and sufficient liquidity
13. Cost, risk and return on capital

 

Week            Thematic Lab Unit

 

1. Time value of money
2. Risk measurement – Scenarios
3. Analysis of net cash flows
4. Dead spot analysis
5. Sensitivity analysis
6. Basic financial statements
7. Analysis and evaluation of indicators
8. Analysis of financial statements
9. Bonds. Stocks.  Stock valuation models.
10. Leverage – Profitability
11. Financial institutions, organizations and related tools
12. Risk analysis with decision trees
13. Case studies

 

 

 

  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD In classroom face to face
USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) E-class,  e-Media, power point
TEACHING ORGANIZATION
Activity Semester workload
Lectures 65
Literature analysis and in class presentation 10
Laboratory courses 15
Team projects in case studies 15
Independent study 20
Course total 125

 

 

STUDENT ASSESSMENT Written exams at the end of the semester (in Greek)

Students having ascertained dyslexia problems are examined with oral methods

Students have access to their essay at any time

  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Suggested bibliography :

1. Noulas A. 2019. Financial management. Tziolas editions. Thessaloniki.

2. Vasileiou D., Ereiotis N. 2018. Financial management: Theory and Practice. Rosili editions. Athens.

 

– Related scientific journals :

Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

 

 ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

Department: Agricultural Development
Course: Financial Management
Course code: ECO0010
Teacher: Garyfallos Arabatzis
Contact details: garamp@fmenr.duth.gr
Supervisors: (1)
Semester: 6th
Study level: (2) Undergraduate
Exams: (3) Written assignment and oral examination with distance learning methods (Microsoft Teams)
Exam implementation instructions: (4) The examinations will be carried out according to the examination program that will be announced by the secretariat of the Department

The total core of examinations include a) a 70% written assignment and b) 30% oral examination Microsoft Teams.

The examination in the course will be oral carried out using Microsoft Teams. The oral examination in the course will be carried out in groups of 5 people (30 minutes per group) according to the order in which the Number of Student Record of the participants appear in the attached list (examination program).

The link of the Microsoft Teams meeting will be sent to students via e-class, exclusively to the institutional accounts of those who have registered for the course and have learned the terms of distance teaching

Students will have to log in to the examination room through their institutional account, otherwise they will not be able to participate. They will also participate in the examination with a camera which they will have opened during the examination. Before the start of the exam, students will show their identity card to the camera, so that they can be identified

Each student should answer in 4 questions. Each of the questions is scored with 0.75 credits