F9 Financial Management Notes
These notes are created by concentrating as much as possible on the F9 study guide found on the ACCA website, following the requirements of the study guide and covering almost everything what you need to know to pass this exam.
The notes only addressed key areas to ensure that you are completely prepared to practice past year's questions. It is good if you can better understand your knowledge from previous studies particularly F5, and if you have FFM knowledge, it gives you an advantage.
Syllabus Areas covered in these Notes
A: Financial management functionB: Financial management environment
C: Working capital management
D: Investment appraisal
E: Business finance
F: Cost of capital
G: Business valuations
H: Risk management
Financial Management Function
Financial Management Function discusses:
1. Nature and purpose of financial management2. Relationship between financial management and financial and management accounting
3. Financial objectives and the relationship with corporate strategy
4. Corporate objectives and strategy
5. Stakeholders and impact on corporate objectives
6. Stakeholders and their objectives
7. Conflict between stakeholder objectives and agency theory
8. Measuring achievement of corporate objectives
9. Ratio analysis
10. Ways to encourage the achievement of stakeholder objectives
11. Regulatory requirements
12. Financial and other objectives in not-for-profit organisations
13. Objectives of NFPOs
14. VFM as objectives
15. Measuring achievement of NFPO objectives
Financial management environment
Financial management environment discusses:
1. The economic environment for business2. Macroeconomic policy targets
3. Components of macroeconomic policy
4. Effects of government economic policy
5. Government intervention in the economy
6. The nature and the role of financial institutions and markets
7. Financial intermediaries
8. Benefits of financial intermediation
9. Financial markets
10. Functions of stock market
11. Risk/return trade-off
Working capital management
Working capital management discusses:
1. The nature, the elements and the importance of working capital2. Objectives of working capital management
3. Role of working capital management
4. Management of accounts receivable, inventories, cash and accounts payable
5. Cash operating cycle
6. Monitoring accounts receivables
7. Collecting amounts owing
8. Managing foreign accounts receivable
9. Managing accounts payable
10. Managing foreign accounts payable
11. Cash management models
12. Determining working capital needs and funding strategies
13. Working capital requirements
14. Working capital policy
15. Working capital financing
Investment appraisal
1. The nature and importance of investment decisions and the appraisal process2. Stages of capital investment decision-making process
3. Non-discounted cash flow techniques
4. Relevant cash flows
5. Payback method
6. Discounted cash flows (DCF) techniques, ie. net present value (NPV) & internal rate of return (IRR)
7. Time value of money
8. Net present value
9. Discounted payback
10. Allowing for inflation and taxation in DCF
11. Relationship between interest rates and inflation
12. Adjusting for the risk and for the uncertainty in investment appraisal
13. Sensitivity analysis
14. Probability analysis
15. Specific investment decisions (Lease or buy; asset replacement; capital rationing)
16. Lease or buy decisions
Business finance
1. Sources of and raising short-term finance2. Overdraft
3. Short-term loan
4. Trade credit
5. Lease finance
6. Sources of and raising, long-term finance
7. Equity finance
8. Debt finance
9. Deep discount bond
10. Zero coupon bonds
11. Convertible bonds
12. Venture capital
13. Methods of raising equity finance
14. Rights issues
15. Raising short and long-term finance through Islamic
16. financing
17. Concept of interest (riba)
18. Islamic financial instruments
19. Murabaha
20. Ijara
21. Mudaraba
22. Sukuk
23. Musharaka
24. Internal sources of finance and dividend policy
25. Internal sources of finance
26. Relationship between dividend policy and financing decision
27. Factors influencing dividend policy
28. Theories of dividend policy
29. Gearing and capital structure considerations
30. Problem of high levels of gearing
31. Ratio analysis
32. Cash flow forecasting
33. Effect of gearing on shareholder wealth
34. Finance for small and medium sized entities (SMEs)
35. Financing problems of SMEs
36. Government aids to ease financing problems of SME
37. Appropriate sources of finance for SMEs
Cost of capital
1. Sources of finance and their relative costs2. Cost of equity and debt
3. Estimating the cost of equity
4. Dividend valuation/growth model
5. Capital asset pricing model
6. Estimating cost of debt and other capital instruments
7. Irredeemable debt
8. Redeemable debt
9. Convertible debt
10. Preference shares
11. Estimating the overall cost of capital
12. Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
13. Marginal cost of capital
14. Capital structure theories and practical considerations
15. Traditional view of capital structure and its assumptions
16. Miller and Modigliani (MM) view on capital structure
17. Market imperfections
18. Pecking order theory
19. Impact of cost of capital on investments
20. Company value and cost of capital
21. Capital Asset Pricing Model
22. Ungearing and regearing of beta
23. Limitations of beta
Business valuations
1. Nature and the purpose of the valuation of business and the financial assets2. Information required for valuation
3. Market capitalisation
4. Models for the valuation of shares
5. Asset-based valuation models
6. Income-based valuation models
7. The valuation of debt and other financial assets
8. Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and practical considerations in the valuation of shares
9. Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)
10. Weak-form efficiency
11. Semi-strong form efficiency
12. Strong-form efficiency
13. Consequences of market efficiency
14. Market capitalisation
Risk management
1. The nature and the types of risk and approaches to the risk management2. Types of foreign currency risk
3. Types of interest rate risk
4. Fisher effect
5. Causes of exchange rate differences and interest rate fluctuations
6. Causes of exchange rate fluctuations
7. Interest rate parity
8. Purchase power parity
9. Expectations theory
10. Liquidity preference theory
11. Market segmentation theory
12. Hedging techniques for foreign currency risk
13. Foreign currency risk management methods
14. Currency of invoice
15. Netting
16. Matching
17. Leading and lagging
18. Forward exchange contracts
19. Money market hedging
20. Asset and liability management
21. Evaluating the foreign currency risk management methods
22. Foreign currency derivatives
23. Currency futures
24. Currency options
25. Currency swaps
26. Hedging techniques for interest rate risk
27. Interest rate risk management methods
28. Matching and smoothing
29. Forward rate agreements (FRAs)
30. Interest rate derivatives
31. Interest rate futures
32. Interest rate swaps
33. Interest rate options
34. Interest rate caps, collars and floors
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