It gives us immense pleasure to present this book titled, ‘Advanced Financial Management’ to our bright and dynamic readers, the intellectual students of different Management Courses and knowledge seekers. This book intends to cover, in detail, the entire Syllabus as per 2019 Pattern of ‘Advanced Financial Management’ of MBA Programme offered by Savitribai Phule Pune University. Apart from that, this book is also useful to the UG and PG students of other universities who have ‘Financial Management’ as a subject in their respective curriculum. This book is an honest attempt to provide readers with latest study material in simple and lucid language. To make the topics clear to the students, a variety of examples have been included.
Advanced Financial Management mostly covers different financial aspects of the business organizations. This book will help to understand the advance concepts of Financial Planning and Shareholder Value, Capital Structure and Firm Value, Investment Decisions, Cash and Liquidity Management, Credit Management, Dividend Policy, etc. It also provides various tools of Financial Statement Analysis, Capital Budgeting Techniques, Receivables Management, Dividend Models, etc. which would facilitate decision making. Due to Globalization, Liberalization, and Privatization, it is essential to have basic knowledge along with the advance knowledge of Financial Management for all the Entrepreneurs, Managers and Executives who are working at domestic, national and international level. For developing analytical abilities and to face the business situations, basic information and advance knowledge is must which is provided in this book.
Looking at the new trends and scenarios, and acknowledging necessity of studying various dimensions of Financial Management, the Savitribai Phule Pune University has included this subject in their MBA Programme.
Contents –
1. Financial Planning and Shareholder Value
2. Capital Structure and Firm Value
3. Investment Decisions
4. Working Capital Management
5. Dividend Policy and Firm Value