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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Strategic Working Capital and Funding Appraisals

SMP810 · Strategic Financial Management — Week 7 of 16

CourseSMP810
Week7 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Strategic Working Capital and Funding Appraisals

  1. Cash conversion cycle optimisation
  2. Inventory and receivables financing
  3. Liquidity versus profitability trade-offs
  4. Short-term debt instruments
  5. Management of Working Capital  - Introduction - ACCA Financial Management (FM)
  6. Trade off between Profitability and Risk-I
  7. Management of Accounts Receivables-I

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Assess the need for short term working capital and long- term funds for an organisation.
  • 4.2 Appraise appropriate sources of short term and funds for an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess the need for short term working capital and long- term funds for an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • Management of Working Capital  - Introduction - ACCA Financial Management (FM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 30 min · for registered students
  • Chapter/Session 7: Business Financing across the Life Cycle · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 28 min · for registered students
  • Session 17: Optimal Financing Mix I - The Trade Off · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 19 min · for registered students
  • Inventory Management: How to Align Company Strategy with the Right Policies? · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 44 min · for registered students
  • Session 16: The Trade off on Debt · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 87 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 19: The Importance of Trade Credit and Working Capital in Planning · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 567–598 · for registered students
  • The Economics of Small Business Finance: Equity and Debt in the Financial Growth Cycle · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
  • Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 16.3–16.5: Short-term, long-term and equity financing · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 543–548 · 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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