Advanced Financial Management

Role and responsibility towards stakeholders: role and responsibility of senior financial executive/advisor; Financial strategy formulation; Conflicting stakeholder interests; Ethical issues in financial management; Environmental issues and integrated Reporting Economic environment for multinational organizations: Management of international trade and finance; Strategic business and financial planning for multinational organizations

Advanced investment appraisal: Discounted cash flow techniques; Application of option pricing theory in investment decisions; Impact of financing on investment decisions and adjusted present values; Valuation and the use of free cash flows; International investment and financing decisions

Acquisitions and Mergers: Acquisitions and mergers versus other growth Strategies; Valuation for acquisitions and mergers; Regulatory framework and processes; Financing acquisitions and Mergers

Corporate reconstruction and re-organisation: Financial reconstruction; Business re-organisation Treasury and advanced risk management Techniques: The role of the treasury function in Multinationals; The use of financial derivatives to hedge against forex risk; The use of financial derivatives to hedge against interest rate risk; Dividend policy in multinationals and Transfer Pricing

Emerging issues in finance and financial management: Developments in world financial markets; Developments in international trade and Finance.