Entrepreneurial Finance (FIN132)

This elective course provides students with the essential theories, knowledge and skills needed to adequately make financial decisions of entrepreneurial firms in different maturity stages.
The starting up of innovative and sustainable ventures as well as their growth toward maturity and equity markets not only require financial and accounting knowledge & tools, but also lead to issues that are specific for them. This course therefore deals with various topics like assessing enterprise opportunities with embedded scale potential, understanding the organizational issues which need to be solved, preparing scalable and flexible (financial) business models, assessing a venture’s (financial) performance through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), selecting and structuring the right funding sources, valuing business ventures for growth investors, financial transitions (post pivoting) & exit strategies.

The course provides theoretical and practical knowledge of (financial) management practices followed by successful entrepreneurs. It also helps students to learn financial management tools and techniques that are specifically used in innovative and scalable business ventures. Students are trained to collect and analyze financial information for scaling a venture.

Students who aspire to set up a new venture in future or work in young and technology-based businesses or consultancy firms will greatly benefit from this course