Chapter 17: Financial Management Flashcards

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Finance

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The function in a business that acquires funds for the firm and manages them within the firm

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Financial management

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The job of managing a firms resources to meet its goal and objectives

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Financial managers (not management)

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Managers who examine the financial data by accountants and reccomend strategies for improving the financial performance of the firm

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3 reasons why a firm fails financially

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Undercapitalization (insufficient funds)
Poor control over cash flow
Inadequate expense control

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Time value of money

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A dollar in hand today is worth more than a dollar promised at some time in the future

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Financial planning 3 steps

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1) forecasting a firms short term and long term financial needs
2) developing a budget to meet those needs
3) establishing financial control to see weather the company is achieving its goal

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Short term forecast

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Forecast that predicts revenue, costs, and expense for a period of one year or less

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Cash flow forecast

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Forecast that predicts the cash inflow and outflows in future periods, usually months or quarters

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Long term forecast

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Forecast that predicts revenue, cost, and expenses for a period longer than one year

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Budget

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Financial plan that sets forth managements expectations, and, on the basis of those expectations, allocates the use of specific resources throughout the firm

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Capital budget

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A budget that forecasts a firms spending plans for major asset purchases that often require large sums of money, like property, buildings, and equipment

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Cash budget

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A budget that estimates a firms cash inflows and outflows during a particular period (month or quarter)

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Operating (master) budget

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The budget that ties together all of a firms other budgets and summarizes the business proposed finances activities

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Financial control

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Process in which a firm periodically compares its actually revenue, costs, and expenses with its projected ones

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Capital expenditures

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Major investments in either tangible or long term assets, such as land, buildings, and equipment or intangible assets such as patents and trademarks

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Debt financing

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Funds raised through various forms of borrowing that must be repaid

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Equity financing

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Money raised from within the firm, from operations or through the sale of ownership in the firm

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Short term financing

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Borrowed funds that are needed for one year or less

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Long term financing

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Borrowed funds that are need for more than a year

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Trade credit

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The practice of buying goods and services now and paying for them later

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Promissory note

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A written contract with a promise to pay

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Secured loan

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Loan backed by collateral

You don’t pay us back we take your house

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Unsecured loan

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Loan that does not require any collateral

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Line of credit

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A given amount of unsecured funds a bank will lend to a business

25
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Commercial finance companies

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Organizations that make short term loans to borrowers who offer tangible assets as collateral

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Credit profile

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A borrowers financial track record in the form of borrowing history

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4 C’s of credit

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Character
Capacity
Capital
Conditions

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Factoring

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The process of selling accounts receivable for cash

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Term loan agreement

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A promissory note that requires the borrower to repay the loan in specified instalments

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Bond

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Cooperate certificate indicating that an investor has lent money to a firm or a government

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Maturity date

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Exact date the issuer of a bond must pay

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Interest

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Payment the bond issuer makes to the bond holders for use of borrowed money

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Stocks (shares)

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Shares of ownership in a company

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Initial public offering

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The first public offering of a corporations stock

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Stock certificate

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Evidence of stock ownership that specifies the name of a company, the number of shares, and the type of stock

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Dividends

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Part of a firms profits that may be distributed to shareholders as either cash payments or additional shares of stock

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Common stock

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The most basic form of ownership in a firm

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Preferred stock

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Stock that gives its openers preference in the payment of dividends and an ealier claim on assets

39
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Venture capital

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Money that is involved in new or emerging companies that are perceived as having great profit potential