Corporate Financial Management: Capital, Risk and Investment Decisions
1Summary
Every major decision inside a company — whether to fund a new project, how much debt to take on, which markets to enter — eventually comes down to a financial management judgment call. Get that judgment wrong and even a technically sound business idea can drain capital instead of building it.
This course, delivered by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, builds that judgment from the ground up: understanding risk and return, managing capital and its costs, running feasibility studies, and reading how financial markets and cross-border financial operations affect a company's choices, with practical applications throughout.
2Objectives and target group
- Read the relationship between risk and return in financial decision-making.
- Manage capital budgeting, capital structure, and financial leverage.
- Run feasibility studies for new projects before committing capital.
- Make long-term financing decisions, including debt and equity choices.
- Understand how financial markets, investment banks, and money creation affect firms.
- Apply financial management principles across cross-border operations.
Target Audience
- Financial department managers and finance staff.
- Business owners and executives.
- Anyone involved in capital, investment, or financing decisions.
3Course Content
Module 1: Financial Management Foundations
- An integrated approach to financial management
- Market, facilities, prices, costs, and taxes
- Key financial statements and terminology
Module 2: Risk, Return, and Time Value of Money
- The relationship between risk and return
- Time value of funds
- Stocks, bonds, and their evaluation
Module 3: Capital Management and Cost of Capital
- Ways of managing capital and distributing profits
- Methods of balancing capital and calculating its cost
- Financial leverage and capital formation
Module 4: Feasibility Studies and Long-Term Financing
- Conducting feasibility studies for projects
- Making decisions on long-term financing and long-term debt
- Alternative finance planning
Module 5: Capital Markets and Investment Banking
- Ordinary stocks and operations of investment banks
- Benefiting from financial market operations
- Money creation and its link to financial markets
Module 6: Financial Management Across Borders
- Financial management processes among countries
- Analysis, planning, financial control, and forecasting
- Practical applications and exercises