Studienhandbuch | KS Financial Management Compact

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[ 515FISTFINK20 ] KS Financial Management Compact

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Workload	Education level	Study areas	Responsible person	Hours per week	Coordinating university
3 ECTS	B1 - Bachelor's programme 1. year	Business Administration	Helmut Pernsteiner	2 hpw	Johannes Kepler University Linz

Detailed information

Pre-requisites

^(*)Keine

Original study plan

Bachelor's programme Business Administration 2025W

Learning Outcomes

Competences
Learning Outcomes The course "Financial Management Compact" is aimed at students from all disciplines who would like to gain a basic overview of financial management. It enables students to gain an introductory understanding and application of the terms, theories, instruments and methods of corporate financial management.

Skills	Knowledge
Learning Outcomes LO1: Students are able to recognise various financial instruments (sources of equity, mezzanine and debt capital) in business practice, assess their advantages and disadvantages, compare them with each other and use them appropriately in the company in the situation (i.e. in relation to the size, legal form and life phase of the company). LO2: Students understand the goals of financial management and their importance, can weigh them against each other and take them into account critically in business decisions. LO3: Students are able to understand and analyse a cash flow statement. LO6: Students are able to independently assess the usefulness of planned business investment objects using various methods. LO7: Students can independently use various financial management instruments (e.g. financial plan), determine key figures (e.g. profitability or working capital), interpret the results and draw meaningful conclusions from them.	Communication of the basic objectives of corporate financial management and the associated decision-making processes in the corporate environment. Introduction and explanation of specialist terms and concepts of financial management that are used in business practice. Promotion of a deep understanding of the role of financial management in creating shareholder value. Combination of theoretical principles with practical examples to enable students to make well-founded and targeted financial decisions in a business context. Communication of practical financial management tools. Strengthening students' analytical skills in order to be able to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of individual financial management tools and measures and apply them appropriately to the situation. Developing students into responsible and competent interlocutors in practice, e.g. experts in banks or on the capital market. Learning Outcomes LO4: Students can define and explain the basic terms of corporate financial management (e.g. bonds, IPO, corporate governance, M&A, financial plan). LO5: Students know the basic instruments of corporate risk management, particularly in connection with interest and currency risks.

Criteria for evaluation

A written exam (present) is relevant for the assessment. 60 points can be achieved in the exam, whereby the following assessment key is used:

Points		Grade
0.00 – 30.00		Not Sufficient (5)
30.50 – 37.50		Sufficient (4)
38.00 – 45.00		Satisfactory (3)
45.50 – 52.50		Good (2)
53.00 – 60.00		Very good (1)

The written exam lasts 60 minutes. It consists of open (e.g. calculation examples, theoretical questions, case studies) and closed (e.g. single-choice questions, dichotomous questions, fill-in-the-blank) questions. There are two exam dates per semester, with the better grade counting if you take both dates.

Feedback culture:
The students have the opportunity to view their exams and receive feedback on their performance three times per semester.

Assessment criteria and learning outcome:
LO1-LO7: written exam

Methods

There are several teaching methods to achieve the learning outcomes:

Teacher-centered information input, supported by slides and a textbook.
Application of concrete case and calculation examples during the course.
Self-directed learning, supported by a textbook and additional practice and calculation examples on Moodle.
A tutorial, conducted by experienced students in higher semesters and accompanied by the Institute for Corporate Finance, in which calculation examples from corporate finance are practiced and trained on various application cases.
Videos with inputs from business practice, which are made available to students via Moodle and illustrate the relevance and forms of the course content.

Language

German

Study material

Slide script, current edition
Pernsteiner, H., & Andeßner, R. (current edition). Finanzmanagement kompakt. Wien: Linde.
Moodle with a collection of practice examples, videos from practice and a sample exam including solution.

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