This course deals with basic principles and theories of finance and their application in the business area. Time value of money, financial planning, investment decisions and factors influencing these decisions, capital structure, optimum fund raising methods are the fundemantal topics of the course.

The course includes introduction to financial management, financial managers' purposes, the financial statements and financial planning, financial analysis, time value of money, interest and annuity calculations, bond valuation, stock valuation, discussion of the current economic problems within the framework of the knowledge learned in the business finance course.