COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
BAF 415	B	1	3	0	0	3	6

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Uğur Ergün
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description:	-
Course Objectives:	This course aims to address principles and the process of strategic financial planning for any organization, large or small. Financial planning must include not only financial management methods (basic accounting) but also strategies necessary to decide how to accomplish corporate financial goals. This course makes use of financial planning, forecasting and practical quantitative applications to analyze financial statements and project calculated scenarios and probabilities in line with company's focus on short-term liquidity or its long-term planning and objectives.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Principles of Corporate Finance
2	Financial Statements and Reports
3	Ratio Analysis
4	Cost of Capital
5	Cash Management
6	Cost Analysis
7	Operational Budgeting
8	Mid Term Exam
9	Operating and Financial Leverage
10	Working Capital Management
11	Current Asset and Debt Management
12	Capital Budgeting
13	Decisions and Risk
14	Review before Final Exam

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 4th Edition,(Martin S. Fridson, Fernando Alvarez), Wiley publishing.
Other References:	Financial Forecasting, Analysis and Modelling: A Framework for Long-Term Forecasting 1stEdition, The Wiley Finance Series, Michael Samonas (2015) Other course material provided by the course instructor.
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Providing useful information regarding the interpretation and application of qualitative (economic activity) information, data, and statistics.
2	Helping students regarding the interpretation and application of quantitative data, analysis, and formulas (accounting).
3	Teaching students how to apply and interpret forecasting methods to meet short-term and long-term corporate goals.
4	Guiding students on defining objectives, gathering and analyzing data, implementing the plan and monitoring the results.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Master of Science in Banking and Finance Program
1	The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in banking and finance but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way.	4
2	They have knowledge about the finance and banking.	5
3	They have knowledge about the money and banking.	5
4	They have knowledge about the international finance and banking.	5
5	They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in banking and finance.	5
6	They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in banking and finance department.	3
7	They have necessary banking and finance skills that needed in private and public sector.	4
8	They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, finance economics, public finance, corporate finance, finance management, international finance markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international finance and banking, money and banking, international trade and banking.	4
9	They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in banking and finance.	4
10	They are aware of the fact that banking and finance is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics.	5

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)	1	30
Project	1	20
Final Exam	1	50
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	3	48
Mid-terms	1	14	14
Assignments			0
Final examination	1	15	15
Other	5	5	25
Total Work Load:			150
Total Work Load/25(h):			6
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6