MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HCMC Independence – Liberty – Happiness

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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME

SYLLABUS

MAJOR: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND MARKETING

1. Unit name: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

2. Unit code:
3. Unit Lecturer: QUANG VIET VU
4. Unit level: Undergraduate, year 2
5. Number of Credits: 3
6. Time allocation:
+ In class study: 30 hours
+ Group study: 15 hours
+ Self-study: 30 hours
7. Pre-requisites: Principles of Accounting
8. Unit description
Financial Management is a course in Corporate Finance. At undergraduate level, it aims to
equip students with the knowledge of making financial decisions within different forms of
organization and corporation that are doing business domestically or internationally. At most
of school of business around the world, this course is one of the core courses for those
majoring in Business Administration, Commerce, Logistics, Marketing, International
Business programs… This course introduces key financial concepts and tools to deal with the
nature of making various important corporate financial decisions: investment decision,
financing decision, and decision in regarding to short-term asset management and financing.
This course also aims to equipe students with knowledges and skills needed by financial
managers and investors such as: analysis of financial performance ratios, time value of
money, securities and valuation of firms, risks and return, capital budgeting analysis, and
working capital management. In addition, the course also introduces topics on lease financing,
and merger & acquisition. Upon a completion of this course, students will be able to
understand the basic and modern knowledge of financial management to minimize the firm
risk, maximize the firm value as well as maximize the shareholder’s wealth.
9. Course Learning outcomes
9.1 Knowledge

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 Upon a completion of this unit students should:
- CLO1.1 Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the nature and objectives of
corporate finance.
- CLO1.2 Understand the organizational structure of a corporation; the advantages and
disadvantages of different forms of business and the conflict between shareholders and
management; financial markets and the role of chief financial officers.
- CLO1.3 Analyze firm’s financial statements, and understand how to calculate the firm’s cash
flow from finance and accounting perspectives.
- CLO1.4 Be able to compute and, more importantly, interpret some common financial ratios
and understand some of the problems and pitfalls in financial statement analysis.
- CLO1.5 Understand how a firm’s pro-forma financial statements can be generated and used to
plan for future financing needs.
- CLO1.6 Understand the time value of money principles and be able to calculate future value
and present value of a single cash flow, multiple cashflow. Demonstrate understanding of
some important concepts of time value of money such as APR; EAR and their application.
- CLO1.7 Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the basic capital budgeting
methods and the decision-making process for accepting or rejecting projects.
- CLO1.8 Demonstrate a basic understanding of firm’s long-term financing.
- CLO1.9 Understand the effect of financial leverage and the MM theory of capital structure in
perfect and imperfect market: how debt financing can have an impact on firm value.
- CLO1.10 Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of dividends and alternative payout
policies, and the relationship between payout policies and firm value.
- CLO1.11 Be able to describe factors that affect the determinants of working capital
management and short-term financial planning.
- CLO1.12 Understand and analyze merger and acquisition activities for decision making.
9.2 Skills
- CLO2.1 Have practical skills and be able to apply textbook theories to reality.
- CLO2.2: Have data selection and data analysis skills.
- CLO2.3: Be equiped with presentation skills.
- CLO2.4: Be trained with group study, teamwork, brainstorming skills.
- CLO2.5: Have logical reasoning, critical, and solving problems skills
- CLO2.6: Be able to demonstrate subject and academic English skills, self-commiting for
continous learning after graduation.
9.3. Autonomy and Resposibility
- CLO3.1: Follow code of conduct, ethics, and integrity in making financial decisions.
- CLO3.2: Be able to develop a sound study plan and always stay committed to the goals.
10. Learning materials
+ Required readings
 Ross, Westerfield and Jordan (2015), Corporate Finance 11 Edition, McGraw-Hill
 Fundamentals of Financial Management, by Brigham and Houston, 13e, South-
Western Cengage Learning

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  Principles of Managerial Finance, by Gitman and Zutter (2019), 14th edition.
+ Additional readings
 Lecture notes, slides, and other teaching materials are provided by the lecturer

Additional study materials including homework solutions will be provided in class.

A financial calculator which is capable of calculating financial functions is required.
Calculators that meet such requirements are Casio fx-570ES, TI BAII Plus, among others.
Students are responsible for being skillful in the use of the calculator
. Excel may also be used as supplement to the financial calculator to make computations.

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 11. Course teaching and learning activities

Session Topic Teaching Learning materials Student’s preparation CLO

(teaching (textbook chapter, section) activity (textbook chapter, section)
hours)
Session 1 Introduction of Corporate In-class lecture Chapter 1, FFM text, (1.1 - Reading Chapter 1 and getting CLO 1.1
Finance 1.8) ready for possible questions
(5 in-class CLO1.2
teaching
hours)
Session 2 Financial Statements and Cash In-class lecture Chapter 2, RWJ text (2.1 - Reading Chapter 2 and getting CLO1.3
Flow 2.6) ready for possible questions
(5)
Online quizzes from chapter 2.
Session 3 Financial Statements Analysis In-class lecture Chapter 3, RWJ text (3.1 - Reading Chapter 3 and getting CLO1.4
and Financial Models 3.5) ready for possible questions
(5) CLO1.5
Online quizzes from chapter 3.

Session 4 Discounted Cash Flow Valuation In-class lecture Chapter 4, RWJ 11e (4.1 - Reading Chapter 4,5 and getting CLO1.6
4.4) ready for possible questions
(5) CLO1.7
Online quizzes from chapter 4,5.
Chapter 5, RWJ 11e
Net Present Value and Other
(5.1 ,5.2,5.4,5.5, 5.6)
Investment Rules

Session 5 Capital Structure: Basic In-class lecture Chapter 16, RWJ text Reading Chapter 16 and getting CLO1.9
Concepts ready for possible questions
(5)
Online quizzes from chapter 16

Session 6 Dividends and Other Payouts In-class lecture Chapter 19 (19.1 - 19.7), Reading Chapter 19 and getting CLO1.10
RWJ text ready for possible questions
(5)
Online quizzes from chapter 19

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 Session 7 Working capital management In-class lecture Chapter 26 (26.1 -26.5), Reading Chapter 26 and getting CLO1.11
and short-term financial ready for possible questions
(5) 27.1, 28.1,2,3,7,8 RWJ text
planning Online quizzes from chapter 26

CLO1.12
CLO1.13
Session 8 Merger and Acquisition In-class lecture Chapter 29 (29.1-29.5 & Reading Chapter 29 and getting
21.10), RWJ text ready for possible questions
(5) + Midterm (writing format)
Online quizzes from chapter 29

Self-stuying
Session 9 Long term financing (self-study) Chapter 15, RWJ text
Chapter 15 RWJ
(5) DOL, DFL, DTL (self-study) Chapter 13, Gitman and reading Chapter
textbook 13 Gitman text
Online quizzes
from chapter 15
RWJ, chpater 13
Gitman
Total teaching and learning time: 45 teaching hours

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12. Class policy and student’s responsibility
Students are expected to
- Attend all sessions required for the unit.
- Well prepare before class.
- Get all of the homework assignments done, including online quizzes.
- Do the term project and submit it before the due date. (details are provided in the next
section)
- Class participation is much encouraged and strongly recommended (bonus points
might ber awarded and counted for assessment#1).
- Sit for the final examination (details are provided below).

13. Assessments
Assessment #1 Class attendance and participation: 10%
Based on the university policies, class attendances are mandatory. Arriving class later than 15
minutes is not acceptable.
For assessment #1, class attendance check will be implemented in 03 random sessions. If you
have three presences (or zero misses) out of the three random rolls, you got a mark of eight
(8). For one additional miss from that level, your mark of eight will be deducted by one. Roll
will be taken before class or at the end of class. During the class lecture or discussion, bonus
points are awarded and calculated for your overall achievement of assessment #1.
It is NOT necessary to ask the lecturer for a permission to be absent in a particular session
under any situation.
No private conversation and no electronics devices, including cell phones, are allowed during
the class time. The use of tablets and laptops for the purpose of note taking must be approved
by the lecturer.
Assessment #2 Term project (in group collaboration): 10%
Group formation should be done so that there must be no more than 05 students in a group.
Each group select one publicly traded corporation in Vietnam for your analysis, calculating
firm’s financial ratios, discussing the results using industry & comparable firm data, and
doing firm’s long term financial planning.
Assessment #3 Online Quizzes on LMS: 10%
Every week, there are new online Quizzes uploaded on LMS which consist of 30 MCQs
including conceptual and short calculation questions. The due date is next week before class.
Assessment #4 Midterm examination 20%
Assessment #5 Final examination 50%
Closed-book exam in 60 minutes. The exam covers all chapters (including chapter 15),
consisting 25 multiple choice questions.
14. Student support
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At the student’s request, appointment or discussion can be done in-person, on LMS, or
via email.

Hochiminh city, June 07, 2021

The Dean of the School of Finance Coordinator

(Signed) (Signed)

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