Financial Management

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The Institute of Commercial Management


The Fusee, 20A Bargates, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 1QL, England

Subject Syllabus

Financial management

28 March 2006

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Financial management

The Construction of Financial Statements:


Company Accounts
Cash-Flow Statements

Using Accounting Information:


Accounting Ratios
Accounting Standards

Management Accounting:
Marginal Costing
Budgeting
Capital Investment Appraisal

Sources of Business Finance:


Long-term sources of finance
Short-term sources of finance

Mergers and Takeovers:


Reasons for Growth via Horizontal, Vertical, or Conglomerate Integration
Financing of Growth
The Construction of Basic Group Accounts

Capital Markets:
The Function of Stock Exchanges
Share & Bond Issues
Rights & Bonus Issues

Reading List

Note: There is no single textbook that covers the syllabus. Finance and Accounting by Richard Giles can be used as
a basic source book but must be supplemented by further reading from websites or textbooks such as Accounting for
Non-Accounting Students (J R Dyson) and Business Accounting (F Wood).

Main Text:
Finance & Accounting – R Giles (ICM)

Further Reading:
Accounting for Non-Accounting Students - J R Dyson (Prentice Hall)
Frank Wood’s Business Accounting 2 – Wood & Sangster (Pitman)

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