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Business Finance and Accounting
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Business finance and accounting is not the same thing.
Accounting is concerned with financial record keeping, the
production of periodic reports, statements and analyses, and
the dissemination of information to managers and, to some
extent, to investors and the world outside the business. It is
also much involved with the quality, relevance, and timeliness
of its information output.
Obviously financial decision-makers will rely heavily on
accounting reports and the accounting database generally.
Knowledge of past events may be a good pointer to the future,
so reliable information on the past is invaluable. However, the
role of the financial manager is not to provide financial
information but to make decisions involving finance. In smaller
business, with narrow portfolios of management skills, the
accountant and the financial manager may be the same person
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Business Finance and Accounting
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In the large business the roles are most likely to be discharged
by different people or groups of people (1). Under the
continual pressure of needs of the economic practice the
science about business finances has been permanently
developing and achieving remarkable results. From the aspect
of the theoretical knowledge business finances gather
information from the microeconomics, they are linked up to
the business-economic science, closely associated with
accounting and employing mathematical methods and
statistics. Business finances are the system of monetary
relations, into which the corporation on acquiring financial
sources enters, on their placing and binding in individual
property components with the aim to exploit productively the
property and to distribute the results achieved..
“Capital Budgeting”
ASSETS FIRM
Investment Decision
Debt Equity
Financing Decision
Real Assets
– Assets used to produce goods and services
Financial Assets
– Financial claims to the income generated by the
firm’s real assets
Corporation
– A business organized as a separate legal entity
owned by stockholders
Types of Corporations
– Public Companies
– Private Corporations
– Limited Liability Corporations (LLC)
Sole
Partnership Corporation
Proprietorship
Who owns the business? The manager Partners Stockholders
Are managers and owners
No No Usually
separate?
What is the owner’s liability? Unlimited Unlimited Limited
Are the owner and business
No No Yes
taxed separately?
Sole Proprietorships
Unlimited Liability
Personal tax on profits
Partnerships
Limited Liability
Corporations Corporate tax on profits +
personal tax on dividends
Chief Financial
Officer
Treasurer Controller
Agency problem
– Managers are agents for stockholders and are
tempted to act in their own interests rather than
maximizing value
Agency cost
– Value lost from agency problems or from the
cost of mitigating agency problems
Corporate governance
– The laws, regulations, institutions, and
corporate practices that protect shareholders
and other investors