Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify key financial issues facing a manager when making financial and investment decisions; explain the time value of money and the concept of discounting; use financial statements and identify cash flow and taxes; evaluate a company's performance based on their financial statements; discuss the role of financial markets and institutions on company policy; determine interest rates and explain the role of interest rates in financial markets; calculate the price and value of bonds and stocks; demonstrate how the relationship between risk and rates of return effect prices; compute cost of capital in financial analysis; discuss basics of capital budgeting and their bearing on investment decisions in the long term; analyze cash flows and risk; determine optimal allocation of resources in various types of financial assets (weighing capital structure and leverage); understand dividend policy and know when and why distributions are made; and use working capital, financial planning and forecasting to guide multinational financial management.