BRIDGING Flashcards
Primary objective of financial management
Attempting to reduce cost of finance
Ensuring Sufficient availability of funds
Deals with planning, organizing, and controlling of financial activities like the procurement and utilization of funds.
The lifeline of any business
Finance
WHO:Financial Management is the activity concerned with planning, raising, controlling and administering of funds used in the business
Guthman and Dougal
WHO:Financial Management is the area or business management devoted to judicious use of capital and careful selection of sources and capital in order to enable a spending unit to move in the direction of reaching the goals.
J.F. Brandley
WHO:Financial management is the operational activity of a business that is responsible for obtaining and effectively utilizing the funds necessary for efficient operation
Massie
An organic function of any business
Financial Management
THEORIES around financial management
- Experts believe that FM is all about providing funds needed by a business on terms that are most favorable, keeping objectives in mind.
- Finance is all about cash
- Widely accepted: FM includes the procurement of funds and their effective utilization.
It is important that financial decisions take care of the ______ interest.
Stakeholders’
SCOPES OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Financing Decision
Investment Decision
Dividend Decision
SCOPES OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Manager decide on the amount of investment available out of the existing finance on a long-term and short term basis
Investment Decision
Other word for long term investment decision
Capital Budgeting
It means committing funds for a long period of time like fixed assets
Long-term Investment or Capital Budgeting
Other term for short term investment
Working Capital
Committing funds for a short period of time like current assets
Short-term investment or Working Capital
TWO types of investment
Long-term Investment or Capital Budgeting
Short-term investment or Working Capital
SCOPES OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Managers also make decision pertaining to raising finance from long-term sources and short- term sources.
Financing Decision
TWO sources of Financing Decision
Capital Structure (long-term)
Working Capital (short-term)
TWO types of Financing Decision
Financial Planning Decisions
Capital Structure Decisions
FINANCING DECISIONS: Relates to estimating the sources and applicaiton of funds
Financial Planning Decisions
FINANCING DECISIONS: Identify sources of funds
Capital Structure Decisions
Involve decisions with respect to choosing external sources
Capital Structure Decisions
SCOPES OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Involve decisions related to the portion of profits that will be distributed as dividend
Dividend Decisions
FINANCIAL SERVICE: the process of developing a personal roadmap for your financial well being.
Personal Financial Planning
FINANCIAL SERVICE: An ongoing process that looks at our entire financial picture in order to create strategies for achieving your short-term and long-term goals.
Investment
FINANCIAL SERVICE: A branch of finance that focuses on how people purchase real estate, whether that be home, an office or a plot of land
Real Estate
FINANCIAL SERVICE: refers to a comprehensive plan of your long term and short term objectives for financial security
Personal Financial Planning
5 FINANCIAL SERVICE
- Banking
- Personal Financial Planning
- Investment
- Real Estate
- Insurance