Financial Management FINANCIAL INTERMEDIERIES IN PAKISTAN Definition: A financial intermediary is an institution‚ firm or individual who performs intermediation between two or more parties in a financial context. Typically the first party is a provider of a product or service and the second party is a consumer or customer. Financial Intermediaries are financial institutions that accept money from savers and use those funds to make loans and other financial investment in their
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FINANCIAL RATIOS Gross Profit to Sales (Gross Profit Ratio): profitability ratio that shows the relationship between gross profit and total net sales revenue. Gross margin/Net sales The gross margin is not an exact estimate of the company’s pricing strategy but it does give a good indication of financial health. Without an adequate gross margin‚ a company will be unable to pay its operating and other expenses and build for the future. In general‚ a company’s gross profit margin should be stable
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FINANCIAL RATIOS Financial ratios are indicators of a company’s performance as discernable from the company’s Balance Sheet and income Statement. We will discuss some of the simple ratios of a company and talk about their significance. Liquidity Ratios: Show the company’s ability to pay of its current liabilities from its current assets. 1. Current Ratio Current assets should be significantly higher than current liabilities so that the current ratio is higher than 2:1. 2. Quick Ratio
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How can a company use information technology to make its company financial plans? Information technology offers a great depth of knowledge to many companies when making financial plans. Information system helps businesses to gather and share information which is vital in financial planning of any kind of business enterprise‚ for instance customer’s preferences‚ and business environment. That’s why is recommendable to have in depth knowledge of your business so as to make of the right kind system
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1. How can using personal financial planning tools help you improve your financial situation? Describe changes you can make in at least three areas. Personal financial planning helps you create a stable future and improve helps create a stable future and improve your financial status by creating a plan that lets you save and invest your money so that it can start working for you. A comprehensive financial plan can enhance the quality of your life and increase satisfaction by reducing uncertainly
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FINANCIAL PLANNING AND CONTROL IN A SERVICE COMPANY In our previous discussions‚ we keep on talking about financial planning‚ budgets and control but in a context of a manufacturing concern. Manufacturing‚ meaning you are going to a process to come up with a tangible end product. Today I will present to you relatively the same topic but in a service business setting. Internationally‚ service business are believed to represent higher percentage of US jobs and GDP and been grown rapidly as the time
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Bibliography: Barry‚ E. and Jamie‚ E. (2009) Financial accounting and reporting. 13th ed. Harlow: Pearson Education‚ pp. 164-254. Bayldon‚ R.‚ Woods‚ A. and Zafiris‚ N. (1984) A note on the ’pyramid ’ technique of financial ratio analysis of firms ’ performance Charles‚ H.G. (2009) Financial Reporting and Analysis: Using Financial Accounting Information. 11th ed. Masan‚ OH45040‚ USA: South-western Cengage Learning‚ pp. 177 to 297. Flex monitoring team. (2005) Financial Indicators for Critical Access Hospitals
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University of Sunderland BA (Honours) Accounting and Financial Management APC311 International Financial Reporting Version 1.0 International Financial Reporting Published by The University of Sunderland The publisher endeavours to ensure that all its materials are free from bias or discrimination on grounds of religious or political belief‚ gender‚ race or physical ability. These course materials are produced from paper derived from sustainable forests where the replacement rate exceeds consumption
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Financial Management Thursday 6 December 2007 Time allowed Reading and planning: Writing: 15 minutes 3 hours ALL FOUR questions are compulsory and MUST be attempted. Formulae Sheet‚ Present Value and Annuity Tables are on pages 6‚ 7 and 8. Do NOT open this paper until instructed by the supervisor. During reading and planning time only the question paper may be annotated. You must NOT write in your answer booklet until instructed by the supervisor. This question paper must not
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have you acknowledged and appropriately referenced the source of your quotation in the body of the text? Have you placed all direct quotations in inverted commas? Have you listed and correctly cited all your sources in your bibliography? Financial Planning for Philip Lewis Declaration by the candidate named above 1. I confirm that this is my own work (or‚ in the case of a group assignment‚ the work of my group) and that‚ although I may have consulted others in the course of assembling
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