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What is financial management?

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All activities related to generating and raising money, and using it effectively

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What do financial managers and staff need to do?

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Understand company plans
Convert plans into financial projections/plans
Calculate short-term or long-term financing needs
Balance risk and return

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Why do companies need financing?

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Cover costs of daily operations with incoming cash from revenue

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Why might short-term financing be needed vs long-term financing?

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Negative cash flow cycle due to trade credit or seasonality

Long term is needed for long-term investments

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What are the characteristics of a financial plan?

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Specific and measurable

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What are the three types of budgets in a financial plan?

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Operating (projected income statement), capital (projected balance sheet), and cash

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What should be considered when selecting financing options?

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Overarching goal is to provide necessary funds at lowest cost while meeting strategic needs of business

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How does purpose impact financing options?

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Cost is no longer only financial

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What should be considered when selecting financing options?

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Amount, term, cost, impact on operations, external factors

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True or false: costs of financing for startups are lower

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False, they are higher

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What are financing impacts to consider on company operations?

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Collateral and decision making

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What is the difference between amount of funding for debt and equity?

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Debt is all sizes of financing

Equity is larger amounts only

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What is the difference between the term length for debt and equity?

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Debt is short and long term

Equity is long term

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What is the difference between cost of financing operations for debt and equity?

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Debt depends on interest rates, interest can be deducted from profits to lower taxes
Equity can be distributed through dividends or reinvested; large one time legal and admin fees

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True or false: dividends are not deductible

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True

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What is the influence of debt on company operations?

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Interest and principle must be paid, some debt requires collateral, lenders have priority claim on assets
Managers don’t lose control

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What is the influence of equity on company operations?

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Does not have to be repaid, shareholders have voting rights and majority shareholders can exert pressure on decision making

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What are external factors to consider between debt and equity?

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Debt - interest rates, availability of debt financing, ability to repay interest

Equity - availability, and conditions for share price

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What are the 5 types of short-term financing?

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Seed financing
Crowdfunding
Trade credit
Unsecured loan
Secured loan
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What is seed financing?

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Loans or equity from family/friends or angel investors

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What is an angel investor?

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an individual who usually has generated own wealth through owning businesses, and invests in other businesses

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What are the benefits of seed financing?

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Low/no interest
No collateral
Less formal/contractual
Flexible terms usually
Less expensive to set up
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What are the drawbacks of seed financing?

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Lower amounts usually
Family/friends - strings attached
May give up some ownership

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What is crowdfunding?

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Use of small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals

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What are the benefits of crowdfunding?
``` Interest free No collateral May be informal/less contractual Relatively inexpensive Provides access to larger, more diverse investors May help drive sales ```
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What are the drawbacks of crowdfunding?W
Must follow rules/fees of platform May have to return funding May harm reputation if not meeting goals
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What is trade credit?
When a company takes delivery of goods but pays later
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What are the benefits of trade credit?
``` Interest free No collateral No contract or loan agreement Inexpensive to set up Discount for paying early Opportunity to earn strong reputation ```
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What are the drawbacks of trade credit?
May take time to get good terms | Penalties for late payments
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What is an unsecured loan?
Short-term loan from a bank of financing company that are not secured by collateral
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What are the benefits of unsecured loans?
No collateral, interest rates based on credit, flexibility, inexpensive to set up
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What are the drawbacks of unsecured loans?
Subject to interest rate fluctuations Penalties for late payments Limited amounts
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What are secured loans?
Short term loans from banks or financing companies secured by collateral
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What are the benefits of secured loans?
Opportunity for companies with less credit history or weaker to access funds Inexpensive to set up
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What are the drawbacks of secured loans?
Subject to interest rates May require personal guarantee Penalties for late payment
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What are some extra considerations for startup financing?
Angel investors bring much more than money - also bring advice, connections, and expertise Startups are hard to value Intangibles matter Startup needs to demonstrate desirability, viability, and feasibility
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What are future trends for financing managers?
Pandemic pushed focus to crisis management Increasing use of digital tech increasing focus on investor relations = greater communication with CEO Reinforces need for strong communication
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What is important to consider in sales forecasting?
Use past performance plus internal/external data to predict the future Identify potential issues and make adjustments
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Sales forecasting provides information for which decisions?
Procurement & operations scheduling Hiring Promotion and pricing
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What is TAM?
Total available market = total market size if you could sell globally without competition or internal capacity limits
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What is SAM?
Serviceable available market = market that fits within geographical reach (household or individual), type of client, purchase frequency
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What is SOM?
Serviceable obtainable market = share of selected SAM that can be realistically obtained in the short term
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Why can't you just proceed with TAM?
It represents what you could sell, not what you can sell, because it is too optimistic
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What is the bottom-up sales forecast good for determining?,
Operations capacity, marketing capacity, human resources capacity
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What does the bottom up forecast show?
What is feasible
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What should you compare bottom up and top down sales forecasts to?
Competitors sales/market share Break-even point Sales figures of recently launched businesses
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For years 1 and 2, what forecast should you use?
Bottom-up
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For year 3+ what sales forecast should you use?
Top-down
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What does a cash budget use?
information from operating and capital budgets, sales forecasts, plus other company info
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What is the cash budget used for?
estimate cash receipts and expenditures over a specified time period
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What company didn't consider their cash budget enough?
Evergrande
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What is the format to build a cash budget?
``` Beginning cash balance Add: receipts Total cash available Less: purchase disbursements Total disbursements Cash excess/deficiency Min. cash balance desired Financing required Surplus cash Financing repaid Ending cash balance ```
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What is the format of the cash worksheet?
``` Net sales Collections Total receipts Net purchases Payments Total disbursements for purchases ```
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What info is needed to determine cost breakeven?
Revenue Cash fixed costs Cash variable costs
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What are fixed costs?
Costs incurred regardless of volume of sales | Remain constant over a range of revenues for a specific period of time
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What are variable costs?
Costs of producing or purchasing and selling one product, fluctuating with each unit Often referred to as COGS (cost of goods sold)
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What cost is constant as % of sales revenue?
Variable costs
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What cost has a constant $ amount and varies as % of revenue?
Fixed costs
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What is included in variable costs?
Manufacturing i.e. raw materials, running machinery, production labour per unit Retailer/distributor i.e. inventory purchase costs, sales commissions, packaging materials
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What is contribution?
If you sell a pair of shoes for 80, and COGS was 30, contribution is 50 to pay fixed costs
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What is the calculation to determine break even?
x = CFC / Contribution
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What is the calculation to determine CFC?
(Price - VC)x = CFC or Contribution(x) = CFC
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How do you determine contribution percentage?
COGS/Net sales
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How do you determine contribution in the breakeven calculation?
1 - contribution percentage
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Should startups lower fixed costs or variable costs?
Fixed costs or variable costs
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Should existing companies lower fixed costs or variable costs?
Variable costs

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