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Academic Year/course: 2017/18

449 - Degree in Finance and Accounting

27520 - Financial Analysis


Syllabus Information

Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
27520 - Financial Analysis
Faculty / School:
109 - Facultad de Economía y Empresa
Degree:
449 - Degree in Finance and Accounting
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview

The process of teaching and learning designed for the course "Financial Analysis" (6 ECTS credits) distributes of 150 hours of student working hours in 60 class hours (theoretical and practical), and 90 distance learning hours that the student needs to adquire the knowledge and to prepare practices and exams.

The 60 hours of theoretical and practical classes are consist of 30 hours of participative lectures and 30 practical hours solving problems and practical cases.

5.2. Learning tasks

Participatory classes:

These involve the description of the basic concepts referring to economic and financial analysis of the company. Student’s participation will be encouraged by setting out economic problems to be solved and providing experiences and approaching problems or current news related to the topics covered for further analysis and discussion.

Participatory lectures will last 2 hours maximum and will start with a reminder of the most important topics studied in the previous session, and will continue with the lecture of the corresponding lesson; will end with a summary of the most relevant points.

Students will have at their disposal recommended bibliography to get information for each topic to be discussed, giving priority to their comments and lecturers’ explanation of the relevant issues.

 

Practical classes

Every week, in addition to the participatory lecture, students will attend a practical class  with a maximum duration of 2 hours.

For these lectures students will have at their disposal bibliography with an extensive collection of solved exercises related to the topics covered in the theoretical classes. The purpose is not to solve all mathematical operations required for each exercise but to comment the procedure, the solution and the most important practical aspects of each topic.
Finally, the 90 hours of student’s distance learning will consist of 40 reading hours and individual reflection about the topics; 40 hours to complete the group task; and 10 hours to do individual exercises, participating in learning platforms.

5.3. Syllabus

GENERALITYS

 

CHAPTER 1.-  The accounting information.

CHAPTER 2.-  Systematic for accounting information analysis.

 

EQUITY ANALYSIS.

 

CHAPTER 3.- Equity structure; composition, evolution and trend.

CHAPTER 4.- The working capital

 

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

 

CHAPTER 5.- Short cycle, maturation period and suitable working capital

CHAPTER 6.- The self-financing.

CHAPTER 7.- Statement of financial position; relevant issues.

CHAPTER 8.- The Statement of cash flows

CHAPTER 9.- Financial equilibrium.

CHAPTER 10.- Financial ratios.

 

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

 

CHAPTER 11.-  Analysis of the economic result

CHAPTER 12.-  Cost-Volume-Profit analysis.

CHAPTER 13.-  Economic ratios.

CHAPTER 14.-  The profitability

CHAPTER 15.- Descomposition analysis.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

According to the calendar approved by the university for 2017-18.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

[BB: Bibliografía básica / BC: Bibliografía complementaria]

  • [BB] González Pascual, Julián. Análisis de la empresa a través de su información económico-financiera : aplicaciones prácticas / Julián González Pascual . 4ª ed. Madrid : Pirámide, 2011
  • [BB] González Pascual, Julián. Análisis de la empresa a través de su información económico-financiera : fundamentos teóricos y aplicaciones / Julián González Pascual . 5ª ed. Madrid : Pirámide, 2016
  • [BC] España. Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda. Plan General de Contabilidad y de PYMES : Reales Decretos 1514/2007 y 1515/2007, de 16 de noviembre, y adaptación al Real Decreto 1159/2010 / prólogo de Leandro Cañibano . 10ª ed. Madrid : Pirámide, [2016]
  • [BC] Estados contables : elaboración, análisis e interpretación / Pablo Archel Domench ... [et al.] . - 5ª ed. Madrid : Pirámide, 2015
  • [BC] Garrido Miralles, Pascual : Análisis de estados contables : elaboración e interpretación de la información financiera / Pascual Garrido Miralles, Raúl Íñiguez Sánchez . - 3ª ed. Madrid : Pirámide, D.L. 2015
  • [BC] González Pascual, J. y Lara, M. A. (2006): El Fondo de Maniobra como exponente de la solvencia estática: análisis empírico. En: Ciencia y Tecnología en la frontera, 2006. México: nº. 3, año 5[Publicación periódica]
  • [BC] González Pascual, J. y Medina, A. (2004): Estado de Flujos de Efectivo como base del análisis dinámico de la situación financiera de la empresa. En: Contabilidad y Auditoría, 2004. Chile: nº. 144 [Publicación periódica]
  • [BC] González Pascual, J. y Medina, A. (2008): Estudio comparativo entre análisis de fondos versus análisis de flujos. En: Análisis económico, 2008. México: nº. 53 [Publicación periódica]
  • [BC] González Pascual, J. y Medina, A. (2005): Propuesta metodológica para análisis de la solvencia de la empresa por medio del cuadro de flujos de tesorería. En: Panorama socioeconómico Talca (Chile). Nº. 31[Publicación periódica]
  • [BC] González Pascual, J. y Vas Gómes, R. (2009): El problema financiero de la creciente morosidad de las empresas. En: AECA : Revista de la Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas. Madrid : Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas, nº. 88 [Publicación periódica]
  • [BC] Rivero Torre, Pedro. Análisis de balances y estados complementarios / Pedro Rivero Torre . 2ª ed. Madrid : Pirámide, D.L. 2009