Business Financing and the Capital Structure Pamela D. Forbes Strayer University Dr. John Karaffa December 01, 2013
Business Financing and the Capital Structure
Data gathering, planning, preparing, presenting, implementing and the on-going monitoring is the process of financial planning that is used to guess asset investment requirements for the business. When it comes to the data gathering you simply just collect all the documents that are needed, so they can be examined by the financial planner. For the plan preparation, that is just where you are at this moment with the business along with where you want to be in the business. And the planner basically figures out a way to get you where you want to be. Which means if it’s a family corporation, trust or partnership; the planner must weigh the options and then give you the recommendations that he comes up with. When all the recommendations are put in writing they will then be presented to you by the planner. And you will basically go over them and once you are finish you and the planner will go over them together. Once you both come to an agreement the planner will then put them into a “Implementation Check List”. Then you can go ahead and implement the plan to be certain all the financial items are the way they should be. When it comes to the on-going monitoring a planner provides you with periodic updates as well as on-going advice. Working capital management is basically the planning as well as being in control of how much and the mixes of those new assets from the business along with financing assets. To be more specific, it requires managers to make decisions about how much money, along with the liquid assets and the inventories that the business
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