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Financial Management Course Outline FM200602, School of Management, HUST, 2007-2008(2) Professor : Ph. D Xia Xinping Apr.-June 2008 Phone: (O) Office: 570# School of Management Building E-mail: hustfrc@ (Personal) hustfrcpub@126.com (for Assignments) Course Credit: 4 (64 hours), 16 Sessions, 3 hours for each session 3 hours/session?1 sessions=64 hours Advance Courses: Financial Accounting Managerial Economics Financial Markets Course objective The Objective of this course is to introduce the student to both the theory and the practice of corporate finance and investment. This course also emphasizes the students’ application skills, so case analysis and case presentation will be done and required. Achieving the objective The theory of Finance will be covered by lecture sessions which will comprise about 70% of the class hours. These lectures will be based on the material contained in the text book which has a theoretical orientation. The practice of corporate finance will be analyzed by problems discussions which will comprise about 30% of the class hours. Experience has shown that an efficient way to study the course material, particularly the quantitative part, is by solving problems related to the theory and its application. Some of these will be discussed in class. The students should do all the assigned problems. Microsoft Office Excel provides strong calculation function, especially the financial functions such as NPV, IRR, etc., students should be very familiar with this application software. Teaching material Slides, T/F quiz and multiple choice self-test software provided at the beginning of the course. A. J. Keown, J. D. Martin, J. W. Petty, D. F. Scott, Jr., “Financial Management: Principle and Application”(Tenth Edition), Pearson Prentice Hall, Inc., 2005(FMPA) CGA, FN1 Lesson Notes (International Version), Finance 1, Level 3, 20