Financing and Investment

Teaching staff 

Qualified personnel of the Technische Universität Ilmenau

Learning objectives

The participants understand the specific financial view of the company. They are able to analyze the financial structures of a company, identify and evaluate financing opportunities and draw up valid financing plans.

Brief description

• Provision of financial resources (equity, credit, mezzanine, self-financing)
• Financial analysis (including liquidity and coverage structure, cash flow, cash flow statement
• Financial planning (method of complete financial planning)

Long description

The course covers the basic aspects of raising capital and managing cash flows in the company. In addition to dealing with the most important sources of capital procurement, special attention is paid to developing sensitivity for the existential financial aspects in the company. The special role of liquidity and its tension relationship to the economic target figure profitability are in the focus both when discussing the types of financing and when analyzing the financial situation of the company and the financial planning. The facts are explained in general terms and by means of examples as well as practiced by means of case studies.

Access requirements

Basic knowledge in accounting, investment calculation and decision making

Prices, place & duration

The attendance events usually take place in seminar hotels in Erfurt and cover a total of 2 days. The participation fee is 1,300.00 EUR net per participant (1547.00 EUR gross) without accommodation costs. Discounts within a course for several participants of the same company are possible.

Teaching staff 

Qualified personnel of the Technische Universität Ilmenau

Learning objectives

Participants understand the functioning and importance of financial markets. In addition to basic knowledge of the factual circumstances, this includes the ability to classify and evaluate facts and statements in the current controversial discussions on the topic.

Brief description

This advanced course covers the central instruments and institutions of modern financial markets. The basic functioning of financial markets and an understanding of their indispensable role in the real economy are conveyed.

Long description

Operational financial management always operates in the context of the financial markets surrounding the company and thus requires a basic understanding of how they work. In addition to an examination of the institutional organization of the markets, the course focuses on the presentation of the most important financial instruments traded there, how they function, their valuation and their meaningful use. The spectrum ranges from shares and bonds to modern derivatives (futures, options, swaps). The focus is on the national capital market, but international aspects are also addressed. The mathematical facts are explained in general terms and using examples, and are practiced using case studies.

Access requirements

Operational financial management, investment calculation and decision

Prices, place & duration

The attendance events usually take place in seminar hotels in Erfurt and cover a total of 2 days. The participation fee is 1,300.00 EUR net per participant (1547.00 EUR gross) without accommodation costs. Discounts within a course for several participants of the same company are possible.

Teaching staff 

Qualified personnel of the Technische Universität Ilmenau

Learning Objectives

The participants can use the acquired knowledge of investment calculation methods to make reliable investment decisions in practice. In particular, they also know the limitations of the procedures in order to avoid common errors in investment calculation.

Brief description

Investment decisions and investment calculation procedures
Static procedures (cost, profit comparison, profitability calculation)
Dynamic procedures (net present value, terminal value, internal interest rate method)
Sensitivity analyses
Utility Analysis

Long description

The course aims at a pronounced methodological competence in the field of investment assessment. The different methods are not only presented in the sense of a recipe-like teaching of calculation techniques. Since all methods embody different approaches to the decision-making problem, they each have specific advantages and disadvantages. In order to be able to make appropriate decisions in practice or to estimate the stability of a certain decision, knowledge about the limits of the procedures is necessary. In the utility value analysis also non-financial consequences of an investment decision are considered. The facts are explained in general terms and by means of examples as well as practiced using case studies.

Access requirements

None

Prices, place & duration

The attendance events usually take place in seminar hotels in Erfurt and cover a total of 2 days. The participation fee is 1,300.00 EUR net per participant (1547.00 EUR gross) without accommodation costs. Discounts within a course for several participants of the same company are possible.