FFM Textbook Syllabus
SearchSyllabus A
Working Capital Management
A1Working capital management cycle
Working Capital Management
3:01
Cash Operating Cycle
2:21
Receivables Days
1:09
Payable days
0:50
Inventory days
0:29
Overtrading
3:08
Over-capitalisation and Over-trading
Ratios and Strategy
A2Inventory control
Work In Progress - WIP
Economic Order Quantity
1:42
EOQ with Discounts
3:25
Buffer Stock
6:36
Just-In-Time
2:06
A3Accounts payable and receivables control
Accounts payables
Managing Receivables in Practice
2:05
A3g & C3d. Early Settlement Discounts (Creditors)
2:45
Early Settlement Discounts
4:32
Syllabus B
Cash Budgeting
Syllabus C
Managing Cash Balances
C1Treasury function
Main functions & treasury functions
Advantages of a centralised treasury department
ADV and Disadv. of centralised cash control
Cash Handling Procedures
Optimal cash balances
C2Overview of financial markets
Types of banks
Financial Markets
The Role of Financial Intermediaries
Benefits of financial intermediation
Relationships between financial institutions
The role of money and capital markets
The role of banks in the operation of the money markets
The characteristics and role of the principal money market instruments
Equity
Preference Shares
NCL - debts
Functions of Stock and Bond markets
Reasons for a stock exchange listing
C3Managing deficit cash balances
Short term finance
7:50
Different forms of bank loans
Loan or overdraft?
Legal relationship between bank and customer
C4Managing surplus cash balances
Cash surpluses and deficits
Risk and Return of different securities
Default Risk
Baumol Model
3:15
Syllabus D
Financing Decisions
D3Long term financing
Long term finance
2:01
Debt or Equity?
3:26
Gearing considerations
1:48
Merits and limitations of LT finance
Mix of finance in an organisation
Internal funds
D4Financing for small and medium sized enterprises
SMEs and stakeholder interests
Reasons why a small business can find it difficult to obtain finance
Government and SME
Venture capital
Finance for SMEs
Syllabus E
Investment Decisions
E1Financing concepts
Simple and compound interest
Concept of time value of money
Discounting
3:13
Syllabus F
Credit Management
F1Legal issues
Key elements of a contract
Terms and conditions - contracts with credit customers
Collection of debts
Data protection
Bankruptcy and insolvency
F2Credit granting
Credit management
Assessing the credit-worthiness
Internal and external sources of information
Credit Score
Rejecting or extending credit
Ratios and credit-worthiness
Ratio limitations
F3Monitoring accounts receivables
Accounts receivables records
Internal sources
Accounts Receivable Reconciliation
External sources