ROLE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - Financial management is one of the functions of management - Financial management is concerned with o Profits and losses of operations o Control over funds o Ensuring appropriate cash flow is available o Chas management o Raising funds / controlling internal funds o Investment of funds o Cost control / pricing o Forecasting / measuring financial performance against expectations - Accounting is a subset of financial management. Financial transactions must be recorded
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questions: 1. In what long-term assets should the firm invest? (Capital budgeting) 2. How can the firm raise cash for required capital expenditures? (Capital structure) 3. How should short-term operation cash flows be managed? (Working capital management) Forms of business organization: Proprietorship- single owner Partnership- more than one owner Corporation- legal entity separate and distinct form its owners and managers. Corporations Advantages: Unlimited life- independent of owners
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Case 2 questions-Costco 1. What is Costco’s business model? Is the company’s business model appealing? Why or why not? Generating high sales volume and rapid inventory turnover by offering fee-paying members low prices on nationally branded and private-label products. Yes‚ it is appealing because the fees paid by members allowed for sufficient supplemental revenues while the turnover rates allowed Costco to receive cash for inventory before it had to pay many of its merchandise vendors. 2.
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Financial Management Challenges and Ethics BUS 401 Principles of Finance Instructor: Richard Burke 4/21/14 Financial Integrity and Foreign Markets Find at least two articles from the ProQuest database that highlight and discuss two of the biggest challenges facing financial managers today. One of the articles should be about the challenge of maintaining ethical financial integrity and the other article should be on any other challenge that a financial manager may face (e.g
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you have any idea? Ok now‚I am talking about the personal financial management.What is meant by personal financial management?Personal Financial management is process of managing your money to achieve personal economic satisfaction.In other word‚it mean every aspect of your life that deals with money. Your personal finances affect your relationships‚ your lifestyle‚ and very possibly‚ your perception of yourself. The idea of management implies that you have a goal or a set of goals in mind. Therefore
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in addition to a potential increase in attention from shareholders. As long as Newell can manage a balance between their growth and profitability‚ these mergers should lead to long term success for Newell Co. However‚ Calphalon and Rubbermaid’s financial data shows that Newell Co. will have to cut down some of the costs in order to keep stability for long-term
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The barriers of new entrants can be technological‚ financial‚ strategic and linked to the actual legislation. Also‚ in the luxury industry‚ most competitors already have established strong distribution channels. If the luxury brand do not have distribution channels‚ which will have bad effect on their plan of technological developments. The barriers of luxury goods industry cannot be overcome very easily. The main barriers are about financial capabilities‚ the difficult to build a brand capital
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Financial management has emerged as a distinct field of study only in the early part of this century‚ as a result of consolidation movement and formation of large enterprises. Its evolution may be divided into three phases. The Traditional phase‚ The Transitional phase and The Modern phase The Traditional Phase:This phase has lasted for about four decades. Its finest expression was shown in the scholarly work of Arthur S. Dewing‚ in his book tilted the Financial Policy
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Objectives of Financial Management The objectives provide a framework for optimum financial decision making. The term objective is used in the sense of a goal or decision criterion for the three decisions involved in FM. It implies that what is relevant is not the overall objective of a business but an operationally useful criterion by which to judge a specific set of mutually interrelated business decisions namely investment‚ financing and dividend policy. The two main objectives of FM are:
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Overview of the objectives of strategic financial management What is financial management? That part of management accounting concerned with setting financial objectives‚ planning and acquiring the optimum finance to meet them‚ and seeing that fixed and working capital are effectively managed.’ (CIMA). Two fundamental questions: 1. What investments should a firm make? Long term investments are referred to as capital investment projects’ e.g. build a new supermarket or factory. 2
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