Deca Help Flashcards
Budgeting applications
Budgeting helps entities plan and control finances. Popular commercial software typically allows you to see your inflows and outflows of money, including tracking your expenses to specific payees.
Most budgeting software measures the impact of different actions on a budget
Financial analysis application
Financial analysis is vital to evaluate a company’s performance, profitability and future prospects. Financial analysis applications can help cross refer employee and vendor information, which is useful because that might create a conflict of interest where the employee is benefitting from transactions with a vendor they have a relationship with.
Buisnesses compare their purchase orders with the amount they record they owe to a vendor to ensure that the vendor delivered the right products at the agreed upon price.
Discuss nontraditional uses of financial information
Lean management, activity based costing and six sigma
LEAN management improves efficiency by using financial information to streamline inefficiencies. Activity based costing allocates cost to products based on activities require to produce them instead of the labour or materials. It uses financial data to analyze how different activities contribute to overall costs. Six sigma quantifies costs of poor quality or inefficiency and demonstrates savings from process improvements. Financial metrics are used to track improvements.
Ratios in
Solvency analysis
Debt to equity
Debt
Interest coverage
Equity
Financial information Management
Financial Information Management uses Financial data to help organizations make decisions. It ensures that Information is accurate and easily accessible
Ethics and Financial Information Management
Ethical practices help organizations Build Trust with stakeholders by being Transparent when handling their data. Key ethics principles Are integrity, which avoids misrepresenting Financial data, and transparency, which avoid a misreporting Financial data.
Tech and Financial Information Management
Tech allows organizations to Collect, Store and process Financial data more efficiently. Tasks can be automated, which not only speeds them up but also reduce a Labour costs.
Technologies in Financial Information Management
Enterprise resource planning Systems Automate Financial reporting and budgeting
Tools Like quickbooks and sage and xero help in Bookleeping, invoicing and pay rolling.
Cryptography enhances confidentiality by converting data into an unreadable Format.