Finance Flashcards
Financial objective
Monetary targets a business wants to achieve within a set period of time
Return on investment (ROI)
A measure of a business’s profitability and performance and how effectively its using the money to generate profit
Return on investment formula
Operating profit/ capital invested x100
What are the two sources of long term funding?
Equity
Debt
Gearing
The proportion of long term funding that is debt
(Highly geared businesses have more risk)
Formula for gearing
Debt / total long term funding x100
Sales revenue formula
Quantity sold x selling price
Gross profit formula
Sales revenue- cost of sales
Operating profit
Gross profit - expenses
Profit for the year
Operating profit - interest and taxation
Budgets
Forecasts or plans for the future finances of a business
Process of setting budgets
- Set clear objectives
- Carry out market research
- Produce a sales forecast
- Set income budget
- Set expenditure budget
- Set profit budget
- Set divisional targets
- Review against objective
Variance
The difference between the predicted outcome and what actually happened
(Can be favourable or adverse)
Break even
Point where a business is not making a loss or a profit
Break even formula
fixed costs/ selling price-variable cost