BS0050 Entrepreneurial Finance

Code BS0050
Name Entrepreneurial Finance
Status Compulsory/Courses of Limited Choice
Level and type Post-graduate Studies, Professional
Field of study Business Management and Administration
Faculty Riga Business School
Academic staff Raimonds Lieksnis
Credit points 6.0
Parts 1
Annotation The course is designed to help students understand the business financial process. The course examines the methods of venture capital and private equity financing, focusing on various offers - start-ups, investment growth and redemption - from the perspective of both the entrepreneur and the investor. The Business Finance course prepares students for competent business and corporate finance management skills. The course focuses on the specific financial planning and financial decision-making needs of business projects, including the financial and management challenges of the creation and development phase..
Contents
Content Full- and part-time intramural studies Part time extramural studies
Contact hours Independent work Contact hours Independent work
Introduction – finance for entrepreneurs. Venture life cycle and financing. Developing the business idea. Financing a new venture 8 5 0 0
Evaluating financial performance. Breakeven analysis. Managing monthly cash flow 8 9 0 0
Valuing early-stage ventures. Venture Capital Valuation methods. 8 5 0 0
Financial planning and private company valuation 9 10 0 0
Valuing private companies for equity investments 4 9 0 0
Small private company valuation. 4 4 0 0
EU financing for startups and SMEs. Altum experience 10 5 0 0
Financing alternatives and structures. Trade sale and private equity investment cases 4 5 0 0
Exiting through IPO. 4 9 0 0
Legal side of private equity financing. Legal considerations when obtaining equity financing – EU and Baltics. Shareholder agreements. 8 5 0 0
Management Buyouts 9 5 0 0
Presentations 4 9 0 0
Total: 80 80 0 0
Goals and objectives
of the course in terms
of competences and skills 		The aim of the course is to prepare students to be competent in business and corporate finance. Course tasks- Improve the ability to evaluate business activities using exel Develop the ability to create capitalization tables. Introduce different financing strategies
Learning outcomes
and assessment 		Able to explain how to finance a startup - Tests, situation analysis, homework, presentations,midterm exam, final exam
Able to value an unquoted (privately-held) company - Tests, situation analysis, homework, presentations,midterm exam, final exam
Able to know how financing transactions are structured - Tests, situation analysis, homework, presentations,midterm exam, final exam
Able to know how investors exit from unquoted investments - Tests, situation analysis, homework, presentations,midterm exam, final exam
Evaluation criteria of study results
Tests - 15%
Final exam - 30%
Midterm exam - 20%
Situation analysis - 5%
Homeworks - 18%
Presentations - 12%
 
Course prerequisites Bachelor degree and knowledge in Financial and Managerial Accounting
Course planning
Part CP Hours Tests
Lectures Practical Lab. Test Exam Work
1 6.0 48.0 16.0 0.0 *
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