Ottawa University’s Online MBA students will encounter BUS-7600 Managerial Finance as the first finance course.   GraduateTutor.com provides live online finance tutoring for this course. Students find LIVE online tutoring especially helpful as this is an online course and all students may not be able to keep up with the pace of this class.

 

This  Managerial Finance course (BUS-7600) is 8 weeks long and completely online. It covers the application of finance theories and finance tools used in decision making. The topics covered in this course are those usually found in introductory finance courses at the MBA level including present value and future value of money, capital budgeting, financial analysis, forecasting, market efficiency, and capital structure.

 

The text book used for BUS-7600 Managerial Finance at Ottawa university is the popular finance text book Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe.  According to the BUS-7600 Managerial Finance website, students should be able to:

 

  • Describe the flow of cash through the financial statements and utilize various ratio analyses to evaluate the corporation’s financial status as presented by its financial statements.
  • Explain the variables impacting the determination of interest rates throughout the economy for various corporations and calculate various risk-related assessments of the financial status of the corporation.
  • Evaluate capital budgeting projects by effective use of the time value of money, cash flow analysis, and cost of capital.
  • Evaluate the corporation’s capital structure with bonds and stock and determine effective distributions to shareholders and bondholders.
  • Analyze the corporation’s working capital by assessing current assets and short term financing.
  • Explain the impact of financial management upon corporate reorganization, merger, and global expansion.

 

Grades for BUS-7600 Managerial Finance are based on the assignments submitted each week. Assignments are usually case studies that address concepts covered each week in the course.  The grade weightage  for each assignment increases as the course progresses and concepts get more comprehensive culminating in financial statement analysis which contributes most to the final grade.