HANOI UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND TOURISM

61FIN2FIM
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Spring 2024
Course details
Course code 61FIN2FIM Course name Financial Management
Credit 3 Prerequisite 61ACC2POA (Principles of Accounting)
Term Spring 2024 Level Undergraduate

Lecturer Le Thanh Binh binhlt@hanu.edu.vn

Tutor Nguyen Anh Tuan tuanna@hanu.edu.vn
Tutor Pham My Phuong phuongptm@hanu.edu.vn
Tutor Tran Son Tung tungts@hanu.edu.vn

The syllabus contains important information. Please ensure that you read it carefully.
It is also strongly recommended that you keep this copy of your syllabus for future reference.

Course description:
This is an introductory course in finance that introduces the student the basic principles of corporate
financial management including investment principle, financing principle, and dividend principle.
These principles are fundamental understanding required for both a corporate finance career and
further education in areas of advanced corporate finance, investments, and banking. It also an
excellent primer for non-finance major students to familiarize with the world of finance.

Course goal:
The primary goal of this course is to enable the student to apply major concepts and topics in finance
to solve finance problems at the individual level and firm level, in other words, to make financial
decisions. To achieve this goal, it is extremely important that the student acquire thorough
understanding of the theories and accumulate quantitative skills through the course.

Course objectives:
This course provides students a comprehensive survey of financial management in relation to money
and capital market and investment activities. In other words, students will examine the role of
financial management in a typical business environment. They will learn to apply methods and
techniques to make financial decisions such as investing, financing, and dividend policy for the
purpose to maximize shareholders’ wealth. In addition, the students will be able to make his/her
personal financial decisions. More specifically, upon successful completion of this course, the
student will be able to:

 LO1: Explain the goal of financial management and the conflict of interest between financial
managers and owners.
 LO2: Describe the money-generating process of a firm and differentiate financial decisions,
investment decisions, and financing decisions.
 LO3: Describe the financial environment and financial instruments.
 LO4: Interpret financial ratios and use them to assess firms’ performance.
 LO5: Describe determinants of interest rate and the term structure of interest rates.
 LO6: Discuss time value of money concept and apply such a concept in valuing securities,
projects, and personal investment alternatives.
 LO7: Evaluate capital budgeting methods such as NPV, IRR, and payback period.
 LO8: Analyze the risk-return trade off and to assess risk-adjusted returns in portfolio setting.
 LO9: Discuss different dividend policies in relation to investors’ need.
 LO10: Calculate each type of cost of capital and overall cost of capital.
In addition to the about knowledge-based objectives, students are expected to gain other skills as
follow: analyze search information, read financial statements, present report, work in group, work
independently, manage time efficiently, be responsible, be respectful, and be professional.

Course materials:
Textbooks: Students must purchase or have access to the following texts.

Main text: Brigham, E.F. & Joel, F.H. (2022). Fundamentals of Financial Management,
concise (16th Edition). Cengage Learning Inc.

Recommended text: Van Horne, James C., and John Martin Wachowicz (2009). Fundamentals
of financial management (13th Edition). Pearson Education.
Students are required to have a HARD-COPY of Lecture slides and Tutorial questions before the
classes occur.

Lecture materials: Lecture slides are PowerPoint slides on each topic. Lecture slides are posted on
the course’s Microsoft Teams.

Tutorial activities: Students are required to submit their homework preparation to the tutor to
fulfill their attendance check (50% for class participation, 50% for homework preparation).
Tutorial materials are posted on the course’ Microsoft Teams.

Internal Assessments

Seq. Elements Type Weight

1. Class Participation Individual Assessment 10%

2. Assignment Group Assignment 15%

3. Midterm Test Individual Assessment 25%

4. Final Exam Individual Assessment 50%

Class Participation components and marking methods.

- Attendance is mandatory in all classes – both in tutorial and in lecture class. Attendance strictly
follows the academic guideline of the Faculty and the University regulation.

The following provides quick summary:

(1) Miss each 01 tutorial class OR each 01 lecture, lose 01 point. Lose 03 points, not eligible to sit in the final
exam.

(2) Attend tutorial but fail to submit homework submission will result in 50% deduction of attendance
check. In other words, if a students do not submit their tutorial homework twice, this is equivalent to 1
tutorial off.

(3) Bonus marks will not be granted for answering homework questions on class. Students are encouraged
to study for their goodness, not for BONUS.
 Proposed weekly schedule

Date Lecture Reading Tutorial

Material
11/1 Topic 1: Introduction to Financial Management Chapter 1

18/1 Topic 2: Financial Statement Analysis Chapter 3 & 4 Tutorial 1: Topic 1

25/1 Topic 3a: Time Value of Money Chapter 5 Tutorial 2: Topics 2

1/2 Topic 3b: Time Value of Money & Applications Chapter 5 Tutorial 3: Topic 3a
15/2 Topic 4: Interest rates Chapter 6 Tutorial 4: Topic 3b

22/2 Topic 5: Bonds & Their Valuation Chapter 7 Tutorial 5: Topic 4

29/2 Topic 6: Stocks & Their Valuation Chapter 9 Tutorial 6: Topic 5

7/3 Mid-term Test Chapter 1, 3, 4,

5, 6, 7
14/3 Topic 7: Risk and Return Chapter 8 Tutorial 7: Topic 6

21/3 Topic 8: Cost of capital Chapter 10 Tutorial 8: Topic 7

28/3 Topic 9: Capital Budgeting Chapter 11 Tutorial 9: Topic 8

4/4 Topic 10: Capital Structure and Leverage Chapter 14 Tutorial 10: Topic 9

11/4 Revision Tutorial 11: Topic 10

15/4 Group Assignment
Feedback

Note: The proposed schedule may be subject changes depending on real circumstances. In such cases,
students will be informed in advance through Microsoft Teams.

Group Assignment
This assignment is designed to:
 Provide students with knowledge about financial markets, institutions and instruments in Vietnam’s
context.
 Facilitate self-study and research skills on a professional topic.
 Develop and practice team-work behaviors.
Assignment’s design:
 Format: groups of 3-4 members. Group members will be formed based on Tutor’s random choice.
Group formation and topic selection must be finalized before Tutorial 3
 Required outputs:
1. Your delivery is required in the form of a recorded presentation (PowerPoint, Canva, etc.)
which must be posted on Microsoft Teams by 30 March 2014. Your tutor and tutorial’s
classmates will have the access to watch your group’s video.
2. Maximum duration of your record is 10 minutes.
 Topics:
1. An investigation on the organization and functioning of Vietnam’s stock market.
2. An investigation on the organization and functioning of Vietnam’s bond market.
3. An investigation on Vietnam’s alternative markets (select one sub-category of alternative
investments)
 Minimum (but not limited to) required contents:
1. Introduction: Brief history and a snapshot of current conditions in the market.
2. Main contents:
  Market structure (statistics on institutions, stakeholders, types of instruments traded
on the market)
 Market operation (how transactions are carried out)
 Latest innovations in the market.
 Forecast on the market trend (next 3 to 5 years)
 How is your assignment graded:
1. Late submission will result in a deduction of 1 mark for every 10 minutes late.
2. Violation of maximum record duration: 1 mark for 1 minute beyond time limit.
3. Individual performance will be assessed based on the group leader’s report on each member’s
contribution and attitude.
4. Marking distribution will be as the followings:
 Introduction: 10%
 Main contents: 60% for each minimum contents
 Presentation design: 5%
 Language skills (verbal and oral): 25%
 Bonus for creativity and innovative record: 10%.