OPF:FIUNAIFM International Financial Manage - Course Information

FIUNAIFM International Financial Management

Extent and Intensity

2/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Jana Šimáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Jana Šimáková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ing. Daniel Stavárek, Ph.D.
Department of Finance and Accounting – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Ing. Irena Szarowská, Ph.D., MPA

Timetable

Thu 13:05–14:40 B308

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

FIUNAIFM/01: Thu 14:45–15:30 B308, J. Šimáková
FIUNAIFM/02: Thu 15:35–16:20 B308, J. Šimáková

Prerequisites (in Czech)

FAKULTA(OPF) && TYP_STUDIA(N) && FORMA(P) && ((! FIUNANMF International Fin. Management ) || (! FIUNANMFK International Financial Manage ) || (! FIUNKNMF International Financial Manage ) || (! FIUNPNMF International Financial Manage )) && (!NOWANY( FIUNANMF International Fin. Management ) || !NOWANY( FIUNANMFK International Financial Manage ) || !NOWANY( FIUNKNMF International Financial Manage ) || !NOWANY( FIUNPNMF International Financial Manage ))

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 42 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 31/42, only registered: 2/42

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Economics and Management (programme OPF, N_EME)

Syllabus

• 1. Principles of international financial management
  Principles of international financial management. Reasons to engage in international business. Forms of international business – international trade, licencing, franchising, joint ventures, acquisitions of existing operations, establishing new foreign subsidiaries. Managing a multinational corporation. Agency problems. Valuation model for a multinational corporation.
  2. International financial markets
  Reasons and principles of using international financial markets in companies. International financial markets serving a multinational corporation. Foreign exchange market. International money market. International credit market. International bond market. International stock market.
  3. Foreign exchange risk management
  Characteristics of exchange rate risk. Measuring exchange rate movements. Forecasting exchange rates. Measuring exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. Transaction exposure. Economic exposure. Translation exposure. Managing transaction and economic exposure. Managing translation exposure. Internal and external methods of hedging against exchange rate risk – currency forwards, currency futures, currency options, swaps, cross hedging, money market hedging, leading, lagging, netting, currency diversification, natural hedging. Limitations of hedging.
  4. Long-term international asset and liability management
  Characteristics of long-term international assets and liabilities. Foreign direct investments (FDI). Revenue-related motives of FDI. Cost-related motives of FDI. Managing FDI. Host government views of FDI. Multinational capital budgeting. International corporate governance and control. Long-term financing on international financial markets. Sources of equity and debt capital.
  5. Short-term international asset and liability management
  Characteristics of short-term international assets and liabilities. Financing international trade. Payment methods of international trade. Short-term financing on international financial markets. International cash management. Techniques to optimize cash flows.
  6. Country risk analysis
  Country risk in terms of financial management. Country risk factors. Political risk. Economic and financial risk. Techniques to assess country risk. Measuring country risk. Techniques to decrease country risk. Incorporating country risk in capital budgeting. Preventing host government takeovers. Credit rating of the countries.
  

Language of instruction

English

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