Prelims Flashcards
It is sufficiency, acquisition, allocation, and utilization of funds
Finance
It concerns with a government revenue and expenditure. it talks about how the government gets the money or how does it spends
Public Finance
Types of Business Organization
Services
Trading/merchandising Manufacturing
Banking and finance
Mining
Construction
Genetic industries
Finance is derived from the latin word_ meaning to end or pay
Latin word FINER
She defines economics as a science of production and distribution of wealth
Webster
It means determining where to use funds currently available to the firm
Allocation
It means obtaining funds from the right sources at the right time
Acquisition
It means using the funds
Utilization
Oldest medium of exchange and use as barter before
Seashells
It came from the latin word “Moneta” which was a surname of a roman goddess juno Moneta
Money
An old french, it means money coins currency
Monoie
Money is Noted as…
Medium of exchange
Legal tender
Measure of value
Means of payment
Standard of value
It is the oldest form of money as domestication of animals
Cattle
A process of conversion of materials into coins
Coinage
An indian word means “color white beads” an oblong shaped clamshell strong together and used as ornaments.
Wampum
Kinds of Coinage
Free coinage or Gratticus coin
Brassage
Seigniorage
Limited Coinage
Made by chinese during tang dynasty and use in the country mongolia
Paper Money
Examples of these are credit cards debit cards cash cards and gift certificates
Plastic Money
Functions of Money
Medium of exchange
Standard of value
Means deferred payment
Store of value
Conveyance
Forms or money
Commodity money
Currency bills C
Check
Bank draft
Money order
Warehouse receipt
Characteristics of good medium of exchange
Scarcity
Divisibility
Portability
Durability
Classification of finance as to form negotiation
Direct finance
Indirect finance
Involved in direct borrowing and there is one security involve the direct security which is in this case is the promissory note
Direct finance
Involves financial intermediaries in the real sense of the word. The securities involved are indirect securities or the secondary securities
Indirect finance