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Lecture 1
Lecture 1
Chapter 1
The Role of Managerial Finance
Strengths • Owner receives all • Owners who are • Owners have limited liability,
profits (and sustains limited partners have and cannot lose more than they
all losses) limited liability and invested
• Low organizational cannot lose more • Can achieve large size via sale
costs than they invested. of ownership (stock)
• Income taxed only on • Ability to raise funds • Ownership (stock) is readily
proprietor’s personal enhanced by more transferable
tax return owners • Long life of firm
• Independence • More available brain • Can hire professional managers
• Secrecy power and • Has better access to financing
• Ease of dissolution managerial skill
• Income taxed only on
partner’s personal
tax return