Keys For Financial Management

Name: Keys For Financial Management
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Managing finances in a firm well to ensure financial stability

Created byEric Yeboah

Last updated 3/2026

English

What you'll learn

Learn the Capitalization in finance
Learn about capital structure
Learn about financial intermediaries
Role of the finance function in the finance management for corporates
lear why financial innovation can be both a force for good and bad
Learn financial innovation benefits to the society
How to prepare to become financial professional
How to manage your money wisely
How To Manage Small Business To Make Profit And Grow

Course content

9 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 32m total length

Introduction2:34
Introduce finance management fundamentals, including financial planning, financial functions, rural finance function, capital structure, capitalization in finance, and the role of a finance manager for profitability maximization.
Introduction to financial management5:10
Manage the procurement, allocation, and control of funds to ensure safe investments and adequate returns. Plan capital structure, estimate needs, and select financing sources while considering dividends and cash management.
Financial planning2:35
Identify capital requirements and design financial policies to optimize procurement, investment, and fund administration. Manage cash flow and debt–equity decisions to stabilize and grow the enterprise.
Financial functions4:55
Learn how finance functions guide capital budgeting, evaluate profitability and risk in long-term investments, manage cost of capital, optimize capital structure, and balance dividends and liquidity to maximize shareholder value.
Role of a financial manager3:56
Oversee essential financial activities, raise funds via equity and debt, maintain liquidity, and allocate funds to optimize the debt–equity mix, asset use, and growth.

Capital structure5:52
Capital structure determines the mix of equity, preference shares, and long-term debt, guiding trading on equity, ownership control, flexibility, and financing costs for different company scenarios.
Capitalization in finance5:02
Explore capitalization as a permanent investment including share capital, debentures, loans, and free reserves, and compare it to capital structure, with overcapitalization causes and effects on profits and share prices.
Financial goal- profit versus wealth3:54
Identify profit maximisation as the firm’s key financial goal, balancing demand and supply to set prices, cut costs, and increase market share for long-term wealth and economic growth.
Profit maximisation criticism3:33
Examine profit maximization criticisms, showing how it fuels disparities under imperfect competition and cartels. Explore how the government curbs excess profits and promotes social welfare and fair prices.
Three modern financial management techniques2:26
Explore three modern financial management techniques to build a flexible, rigorous system that prioritizes expenses, guards solvency, and mitigates rising costs.

Role of the financial intermediation2:27
Financial intermediaries connect savers and borrowers, channel savings into investments, and provide portfolio management and syndication services, with banks and insurance companies playing key roles in funding and markets.
Need for regulation3:20
Regulation is essential to curb the risks of a complex financial system and prevent systemic collapse, as the subprime crisis showed, by empowering central banks and monetary authorities.

The finance function in corporates3:13
Examine the finance function's role in corporate financial management, including reporting, tracking receivables and payables, and managing foreign exchange, hedging, and a single banking relationship.
The internal functions of finance department1:43
Explore the internal functions of the finance department, from payroll processing to ensuring on-time employee payments, and manage reinvestments, benefits, taxes, and approvals through due diligence.
The treasury function2:22
The treasury function manages foreign exchange payments and hedging to protect the company from exchange rate fluctuations, with escrow accounts monitored by trading desks.

Exotic innovations or weapons of mass destruction2:27
Explore how financial innovation can hedge risk and yet fuel instability through exotic instruments like derivatives, swaps, and options, which Buffett calls weapons of mass destruction.
When is financial innovation bad2:50
Explore how financial innovation benefits society when directed and controlled for stability, and examine microcredit initiatives by Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank that expand access to credit for the poor.
Profit are not the only criteria2:15
Profits are not the only criteria; financial innovation can spur social change and market efficiency, yet speculation and high-speed trading with complex instruments risk eroding human oversight.

Requirements

Desire financial management
No special requirement

Description

Financial management means planning, organizing, directing and controlling the financial activities such as procurement and utilization of funds of the enterprise. It means applying general management principles to finance resources of the enterprise. There are so many functions of the financial management such as estimation of capital requirement: A finance manager has to make estimation with regards to capital requirements of the company. This will depend upon expected costs and profits and future programmed and policies of a concern. Estimations have to be made in an adequate manner which increase earning capacity of the enterprise. Determination of capital composition: Once the estimation have being made, the capital structure have to be decided. This involves short-term and long-term debt equity analysis. This will depend upon the proportion of equity capital a company is possessing and additional funds which have to be raised from outside parties.

The role of a financial manager is key is the organisation, financial activities of a firm is one of the most important and complex activities of a firm. Therefore in order to take care of these activities a financial manager performs all the requisite financial activities. The finance manager is the person who take care of all the important financial functions of the organization.The person in charge should maintain a farsightedness in order to ensure that the funds are utilized in the most efficient manner.

The are factors that determines the capital structure such as trading on equity: the word equity denotes the ownership of the company. Trading of equity share capital to borrowed funds on reasonable basis. It refers to additional profits that equity shareholders earn because of issuance of debentures and preference shares.

Managing a small business for profit and growth requires focusing on three core areas: increase revenue, reducing expenses, and optimizing operational efficiency. Key strategies include setting value-based pricing, boosting high-margin products, using cost-effective digital marketing, maintaining tight cash flow control, and investing in team productivity to ensure long-term sustanability.

Who this course is for:

everybody, finance managers, finance students, brokers, accountants,non profit organizations, managers, consultants, students, donors, directors etc

Keys For Financial Management

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Course content

Introduction To Financial Management5 lectures • 19min

Key Financial Management Areas5 lectures • 21min

Financial Intermediaries2 lectures • 6min

Role Of The Finance Function In The Financial Management For Corporates3 lectures • 7min

Why Financial Innovation Can Be Both A Force For Good And Bad3 lectures • 8min

How To Manage Small Business To Make Profit And Grow3 lectures • 12min

Doe Financial Innovation Benefit The Society1 lecture • 6min

How To Manage Your Money Wisely1 lecture • 7min

Conclusion1 lecture • 6min

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