1. Financial analysis and its place in financial management with focus on:
A. function, importance and procedure for making financial analysis
B. users of financial analysis, and specifically its use in corporate financial management
C. data sources for financial analysis, limitations of reliability of the data
D. classification of methods of financial analysis
E. characteristics of main types of indicators (state and differencial), and what they measure
2. Profitability ratios with focus on:
A. definition and characteristics of main ratios of profitability, their explanatory power and recommended method of calculation nature of decomposition of the profitability indicators, and its use
B. basic approaches to the interpretation of specific values for the profitability parameters
3. Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) primarily focused on:
A. definition of “Weighted Average Cost of Capital“ (WACC) and concept of costs of equity
B. and debt, method of calculation
C. WACC use in corporate financial management
D. factors that affect the cost of equity and debs
E. nature of costs of equity and debt calculation using the CAPM model
4. Business risks and their typology with focus on:
A. risk classification criteria and their categorization according to the industry of the enterprise
B. types of business financial risks
C. ways of protecting the enterprise from adverse effects of risks
D. relationship between a risk and a discount rate of a particular investment project
E. methods of measuring risk investments