Unit 04: Strategic Financial Management

Unit Reference Number - H/615/3242

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the significance of strategic management and decision making to the performance of a business organisation
2. Understand key financial theories
3. Be able to apply stakeholder analysis and corporate valuation techniques
4. Understand the role of culture in strategic decision making
5. Understand performance measurement systems

Strategic Financial Management

You are required to choose a business organisation with which you are familiar in order to identify the organisation's competitive strategies. In addition, you are required to identify different business organisation in a similar industry to allow for informative comparisons to be made.

You are advised to check with your tutor that your choice of business organizations is appropriate.

Tasks:

Prepare a business report, to be presented to the Directors of your chosen company. You must include the following in your business report:

1. A description of business resources used to meet organisational objectives and key performance measurement systems. (LO 1 and LO 5)

2. An application of theories to review the various internal and external organisational factors affecting your chosen organisations. (LO 1)

3. An explanation of the financial analysis techniques used by business organisations. (LO 5)

4. An application of financial analysis systems and techniques to analyse the final accounts of your chosen business organisations. You should review the Annual Reports of the two business organisations that you have studied. (LO 5)

5. An evaluation of the role of culture in strategic decision making in business organisations. (LO 4)

6. An evaluation of key financial theories. (LO 2)

7. An assessment of strategic implementation techniques using balanced scorecard and portfolio management tools. (LO 2)

8. An application of stakeholder analysis for your chosen business organisation. (LO 3)
This should include:
a. An analysis of the significance of stakeholder analysis.
b. An explanation of business expansion methods and their impact on stakeholders.
c. An application of stakeholder analysis to a named business organisation.
d. Return and risk computations.
e. An explanation of the concepts of corporate and business valuation techniques.

9. An explanation of the concepts of corporate and business valuation techniques - you should include exemplar return and risk computations where appropriate. (LO 3)

Attachment:- Strategic Financial Management.rar