Finance and Financial Reporting (1 º Sem 2019/2020)

During the semester students will be introduced to corporate finance and the interpretation of company account, such that at the end of the course they will be able to: understand the economic context in which the business operates, namely the shareholder-manager relationship; discuss the role of Corporate Governance in business finance; demonstrate an understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles; construct simple balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and cash flow statements; state the importance of auditing; interpret an auditing report; interpret financial statements; to construct simple budgets; to make investment decisions that create shareholder value; explain the different debt and equity financial instruments; discuss the capital structure of a firm and its relationship with the firm?s value; understand and explain the main impact of taxation in a firm.