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This summary covers the key concepts of financial management, including various forms of financing, the time value of money, net present value, profitability, leverage, and capital structure. It also provides detailed explanations of cash flows, balance sheet analysis, and profitability calculations. The summary is clearly structured with formulas, definitions, and illustrative examples, making it ideal for quick review or exam preparation.

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Practical info ............................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 1: Objectives and functions of financial management ..................................................................................................... 4
1.1 The role of the finance director (CFO) ................................................................................................................................ 4
1.2 The objective of the company from a financial point of view .............................................................................................. 4
Chapter 2: Basic valuation concepts ............................................................................................................................................ 7
2.1 Single amount, to be received or paid afet one year........................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Single amount, to be paid or received after n years ............................................................................................................ 7
2.3 Impact of the interest or discount factor ............................................................................................................................ 8
2.4 Interest periodicity less than one year ............................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 Future and present value of a series of different money flows ......................................................................................... 10
2.6 Present value of a series of equal money flows ................................................................................................................ 10
2.7 Nominal and real interest rates on loans with a periodicity less than one year ................................................................. 11
Chapter 3: Valuation of (bond) loans and shares........................................................................................................................ 13
3.1 Valuation of simple (bond) loans...................................................................................................................................... 13
3.2 Valuation shares based on dividends ............................................................................................................................... 20
Chapter 4: The relationship between the required rate of return and risk .................................................................................. 29
4.1 Lessons from history........................................................................................................................................................ 29
4.2 Determining the risk ........................................................................................................................................................ 29
4.3 Attitutde towards risk ...................................................................................................................................................... 30
4.4 The ‘efficient set theorem’ and risk + 4.6 The effect of diversification: investing in multiple shares .................................. 31
4.5 Calculating the expected rate of return and risk ............................................................................................................... 32
4.7 The capital market line .................................................................................................................................................... 34
4.8 The required rate of return for an individual share........................................................................................................... 34
4.9 Beta as a measure of risk ................................................................................................................................................. 35
4.10 Detecting overvalued and undervalued shares using CAPM............................................................................................ 36
4.11 Alternative models ........................................................................................................................................................ 38
Exercises ............................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Chapter 5: Valuing options ........................................................................................................................................................ 41
5.1 Definition ........................................................................................................................................................................ 41
5.2 Value of an option on exercise date ................................................................................................................................. 41
5.3 Valuation of options: qualitative approach....................................................................................................................... 42
5.4 Valuation of options: quantitative approach .................................................................................................................... 45
Exercises ............................................................................................................................................................................... 50




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,Chapter 6: Assessing Investment projects.................................................................................................................................. 51
6.1 Determining cash flows ................................................................................................................................................... 51
6.2 Example: an expansion investment .................................................................................................................................. 52
6.3 Evaluation methods ......................................................................................................................................................... 53
6.4 Comparison of net present value and internal rate of return ............................................................................................ 54
Exercises ............................................................................................................................................................................... 56
Chapter 7: Further refinements in assessing the investment ...................................................................................................... 57
7.1 Further refinements in assessing the investment ............................................................................................................ 57
7.2 Capital rationing .............................................................................................................................................................. 58
7.3 Projects with different lifetimes ....................................................................................................................................... 58
7.4 Real options in investment projects ................................................................................................................................. 60
Exercises ............................................................................................................................................................................... 62
Chapter 8: Cost of capital .......................................................................................................................................................... 64
8.1 Basic principles of the cost of capital................................................................................................................................ 64
8.2 Required rate of return on ordinary share capital ............................................................................................................ 64
8.3 The cost of preference shares .......................................................................................................................................... 66
8.4 The cost of debt financing................................................................................................................................................ 66
8.5 The weighted average cost of capital of a company ......................................................................................................... 66
8.6 The required rate of return on an investment project in a diversified company ................................................................ 67
Exercises ............................................................................................................................................................................... 68
Chapter 9: Capital Structure ...................................................................................................................................................... 69
9.1 Maximising corporate value and shareholder value.......................................................................................................... 70
9.2 Modigliani and miller: the capital structure is of no importance in a perfect capital market .............................................. 70
9.3 The impact of corporate taxes ......................................................................................................................................... 74
9.4 Bankruptcy costs ............................................................................................................................................................. 76
Exercises ............................................................................................................................................................................... 80
Chapter 12: Issuing shares......................................................................................................................................................... 82
12.1 Shares ........................................................................................................................................................................... 82
12.2 Organised stock merkets................................................................................................................................................ 91
12.3 Public issue of shares ..................................................................................................................................................... 93
12.4 Rights offering of shares ................................................................................................................................................ 96
12.5 Advantages and disadvantages of a stock exchange listing ............................................................................................. 99




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,Chapter 13: Financial dept....................................................................................................................................................... 100
13.1 The credit decision ...................................................................................................................................................... 100
13.2 Types of credit provided by financial institutions.......................................................................................................... 101
13.3 Bonds: introductory concepts ...................................................................................................................................... 101
13.4 Types of bonds ............................................................................................................................................................ 102
13.5 Bonds with a call (or early redemption) option............................................................................................................. 103
13.6 Bonds with warrants.................................................................................................................................................... 104
13.7 Convertible bonds ....................................................................................................................................................... 104
13.8 Commercial Paper ....................................................................................................................................................... 107
Chapter 15: Working capital management............................................................................................................................... 108
15.1 The hedging approach to the financing maturity .......................................................................................................... 108
15.2 The impact of the working capital requirement ............................................................................................................ 109
Chapter 16: Cash management and financial planning ............................................................................................................. 113
Chapter 17: Valuation of companies ........................................................................................................................................ 115




PRACTICAL INFO

• Prof. Dr. Marc Deloof
E-mail:
Contact: by appointment
• Assistent: Nina Marien
E-mail:
Contact: by appointment
• Book:
Marc Deloof, Sophie Manigart, Hubert Ooghe, Cynthia Van Hulle
Corporate Finance (2nd edition, 2023)
Published by Intersentia – Bookshops Acco and Universitas
• Teaching methods:
o Lectures
o Practice sessions
• Evaluation
o Closed book, ON COMPUTER
o Multiple choice questions and open questions
o There will be a ‘trial’ exam in early May




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, CHAPTER 1: OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1.1 THE ROLE OF THE FINANCE DIRECTOR (CFO)

• Investment decisions
o In which assets should the firm invest?
o Determines size of company – operating results – operational risk
• Financing decisions
o How can/should the firm finance these assets?
o Dept financing (different types of depts (long term vs short term, …))
o What is the best way to fund investments?
o Lots of choices!!
o Determines the fixed financial costs of the company – the financial risk
• Financial planning
o How should the financial flows be managed?
o You’ve got a number of cashflows → how are we going to optimize these? Trade off!
▪ All times cash available to fund things you need to pay (investments, wages, …)
▪ VS you don’t want too much cash, nothing is happening with that money and that’s not good because
it doesn’t bring any profit
• Dividend decisions
o Determines the size of the reserved profits → impact on the equity
• Risk management
o All these decisions above influence the financial risk of a company → management is necessary
1.2 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE COMPANY FROM A FINANCIAL POI NT OF VIEW

• Maximization of
o revenues?
▪ Costs involves → not a good idea
o profits?
▪ What profits? Absolute terms? Profit per share? …?
o Profits per share?
o Value per share?
▪ Include both expected profit and risk!
▪ Risk is not entailed in the other three
• Example: A company has a 20% profitability rate and a profit per share of € 2 (no debts). The company can issue new
equity and invest the proceeds in 10% bonds




o Increase because of the new invested bond
o Profitability goes down because extra money is invested in bonds which only entails 10% → bad investment
because it reduces profitability




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