Strategic Financial Management: Managing for Shareholder Value

By Prasanna Chandra | Centre for Financial Management

Learners enrolled: 3212

Business entities are the engines of wealth creation in a society. A society prospers economically if its business entities create wealth. The most conspicuous example of this phenomenon is the US, which can be sharply contrasted with Russia. India, too, has witnessed substantial wealth creation over the past three decades, thanks to the dynamism of business entities.

The primary objective of a business entity is to create long-term economic value in a legal, ethical, socially responsible, and environmentally sustainable manner.

All managers participate in the value-creation process in some way or another. So, irrespective of their work area, every manager needs a basic understanding of valuation and value creation.

The thrust of this course is on the fundamentals of valuation and the key levers of value creation reflected in what I call the Value Pentagon, as shown below.

The levers shown in the above exhibit represent the top management agenda.

The course explores these issues. It seeks to blend the conceptual world of the scholar with the “how to do it view” of the practitioner. It takes the pragmatic approach, blending valuable insights from diverse disciplines like finance, strategy, accounting, organization design and behavioural economics. As a result, it synthesizes a range of perspectives instead of focusing on a single silo of ideas.

Welcome to the ‘Strategic Financial Management – Managing for Value Creation’ Course. This course will familiarize you with the different levers of value creation essential for every manager to move up the corporate ladder.

In this course, you will learn about –

• Financial Statements

• Financial Statement Analysis

• Basic Valuation Concepts

• Investment Decisions

• Financing Decisions

• Corporate Risk Management

• Corporate (Business) Valuation

• Mergers, Acquisition and Restructuring

• Value-Based Management and Organizational Architecture

Course Objectives –

By the end of this course, you will be able to

• Read and interpret the financials of a business

• Understand the fundamental valuation concepts and methods

• Examine ways and means of improving investment decisions

• Learn to formulate capital structure and distribution policy

• Describe how integrated risk management facilitates value creation

• Assess how mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring help in value creation

• Apply value-based management concepts in your organization for better performance

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	26 Jul 2024
End Date :	31 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	15 Dec 2024 IST
Shift :	1

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Primer in Accounting and Finance
Week 2: Investment Decisions
Week 3: Financing Decisions
Week 4: Corporate Risk Management
Week 5: Corporate (Business) Valuation
Week 6: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring
Week 7: Value-Based Management and Organisational Architecture

Course syllabus

Exam schedule

Instructor bio

Prasanna Chandra

Centre for Financial Management

Dr. Prasanna Chandra, is the Director of Centre for Financial Management. A gold medallist throughout his university career, he is an MBA, PhD (Finance). He has five decades of teaching experience in postgraduate and executive education programmes.

He was a Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, for over two decades. He was a visiting professor of finance at Southern Ilinois University, USA, for two years. He was appointed as a member of several committees including the Capital Issues Advisory Committee, the High Powered Committee on Insurance Sector Reforms, and the SEBI Committee on Derivatives.

He has served on the boards of a number of organisations including Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Power Finance Corporation, UTIIAS, ICFAI, SDMIMD, IFCI, IIM(B), Templeton Mutual Fund, Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited, and Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited. He has also been a consultant and conducted executive seminars for a number of organisations.

He has authored nine books in the domain Finance including Financial Management; Projects: Planning, Analysis, Financing, Implementation and Review; Investment Game; Corporate Valuation and others. He has authored over 70 articles in professional journals and business periodicals. He has been a Fullbright Scholar and a UNDP Fellow. He has received several honours including the Best Teacher Award from the Association of Indian Management Schools.

Course certificate

Enrolling and learning from the course is free. However, if you wish to obtain a certificate, you must register and take the proctored exam in person at one of the designated exam centre’s. The registration URL will be announced when the registration form is open. To obtain the certification, you need to fill out the online registration form and pay the exam fee. More details will be provided when the exam registration form is published, including any potential changes. For further information on the exam locations and the conditions associated with filling out the form, please refer to the form.

Grading Policy:

Assessment Type	Weightage
Mid-term & End-term	25%
Final Exam	75%

Certificate Eligibility:

40% marks and above in internal assessment(mid-term & end-term)
40% marks and above in the final proctored exam

Score	Type of Certificate
>=90	Gold
75 - 89	Silver
70 - 74	Bronze
40 - 70	Successfully Completed
<40	No Certificate

Sample Certificate:

Disclaimer: In order to be eligible for the certificate, you must register for enrolment and exams using the same email ID. If different email IDs are used, you will not be considered eligible for the certificate.

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