Financial Strategies   [Archived Catalog]
2023-2024 Saybrook Academic Catalog Summer Addendum
   

HM 6022 - Financial Strategies


This course explores contemporary frameworks for analyzing and making financial decisions to support operations and business strategy. The student learns how organizational financial policy is developed in support of sustainable, people-centered business strategy and decision-making processes.  Key aspects of fiscal practices covered in this course include managing working capital and cash flow, capital budgeting and investment decisions, and maintaining long-term capital structure. Students will examine several quantitative techniques, including discounted cash flow, cost of capital, return on investment, cash flow modeling, and managing risk in investment decisions. The course also explores important economic concepts of marginal cost/benefit, opportunity cost and Economic Value Added. Prerequisite(s): None 3 credit(s)