On a sheet of paper (1/4), answer the following questions: • A. How much is your daily allowance? If not given daily, how much is your average allowance per day? • B. Write down all the items you spend your money with or all the expenses. List the description and peso amount spent. • C. Compute for the balance of your allowance by deducting the expenses you listed from your daily allowance. • D. If the answer to Question C is positive, what do you do with the money left? If the answer is negative, where do you get additional money? What is FINANCE? •Finance can be defined as the science and art of managing money. • (Gitman & Zutter, 2012) The activity you performed is called budgeting.
• Budgeting is the act of
estimating revenue (in the form of your allowances) and expenses over a period of time (in this case, on a daily basis). Sources of Funds • Have you ever been in a situation where you are short of cash? What would you do? Where are you going to get extra cash? What other sources of cash do you know? Possible answers: • • Ask from parents • • Borrow from a friend • • Fund raising activities • • Pawnshops • • 5/6 • • Banks Finance is concerned with decisions about: • How much of your earnings you spent? • How much do you need and save? • How will you invest your savings? • How will you raise additional funds if you are short of funds? Forms of Business Organizations: • Sole Proprietorship - A business owned by one person and operated for his or her own profit. • Partnership - A business owned by two or more people and operated for profit. • Corporation – An entity created by law owned by shareholders.