Financial Management Flashcards
What are the three financial statements?
Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow statement
The art and science of gathering, collecting, classifying, summarizing, and closing entries or reports of a financial statement.
Accounting
The accounting system
People make decisions
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Business transaction occur
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Prepare reports to show the results of business operations
It is the analysis and interpretation of bookkeeping records
Accounting
Apart from revealing the level of performance, it throws light on the causes of weakness and deviation from plans.
Accounting
May use accounting information to manage their routine affairs like operating and managing their bank accounts to evaluate the worthwhileness of a job in an organization, to invest money, to rent a house, etc.
Individuals
They set goals, evaluate progress, and initiate corrective action in case of unfavorable deviation from the plan course of action.
Business managers
The ability of the company to pay for the short term by selling assets
Ease of converting it to cash
Short term ability to pay
Liquidity
Liquid Assets
Stability of the company for long-term loans
Ability of the company to meet its long-term debts and other financial obligations
One measure of a companies financial health because it demonstrates the ability to manage operation into the foreseeable future
Solvency
They are keen to evaluate the profitability and solvency of a company before they decide to provide money to the organization
Investors and creditors
They are charged with the responsibility of guiding the socioeconomic system of a country in such a way that it promotes the common good
Government and regulatory agencies
It is the language of financial decisions
Accounting
Two branches of assets
Current assets and fixed assets
This is any property owned by the company that can be consumed so converted to cash in a period of 12 months or during the accounting period
Current assets
Assets owned by the company that cannot be sold converted to cash during the accounting period.
Fixed Assets