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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Corporate Portfolio Evaluation and Strategic Decision-Making

SMP810 · Strategic Financial Management — Week 4 of 16

CourseSMP810
Week4 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Corporate Portfolio Evaluation and Strategic Decision-Making

  1. Economic value added (EVA)
  2. Portfolio matrix financial mapping
  3. Divestment and restructuring evaluations
  4. Executive performance scorecards
  5. Divisional Performance Measurement: Economic Value Added - ACCA (APM)
  6. Basics Of Corporate Restructuring - M&A Insights

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Recommend organisational decisions based on evaluation of financial statements using financial ratios.
  • 2.3 Propose managerial recommendations on the strategic portfolio of an organisation based on financial analysis.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: recommend organisational decisions based on evaluation of financial statements using financial ratios.

Study materials

Videos

  • Divisional Performance Measurement: Economic Value Added - ACCA (APM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 34 min · for registered students
  • Basics Of Corporate Restructuring - M&A Insights · YouTube · FinanceKid · 34 min · for registered students
  • Session 34: The Value of Control · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 13 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 8: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 237–272 · for registered students
  • Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial Accounting, ch. 12: Balanced Scorecard and Other Performance Measures · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 565–604 · for registered students
  • MIT 15.414 Financial Management, lecture notes: Firm Valuation (1) · PDF · Other, slides · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Strategic Cost Management and Systems Design
  • Week 2: Advanced Costing Optimisation and Pricing Strategies
  • Week 3: Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
  • Week 4: Corporate Portfolio Evaluation and Strategic Decision-Making
  • Week 5: Master Budget Architecture and Target Setting
  • Week 6: Critical Perspectives on Budgetary Control
  • Week 7: Strategic Working Capital and Funding Appraisals
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Long-Term Capital Structure and Funding Selection
  • Week 10: Capital Investment Appraisal Under Uncertainty
  • Week 11: Strategic Investment Governance and Qualitative Appraisals
  • Week 12: Applying Strategic Financial Management in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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