FIN111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cash Flow, Chief Financial Officer, Cost Accounting

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The role of the financial manager:
It is all about cash flows.
A firm generates cash flows by selling the goods and services produced by its productive assets
and human capital.
The firm can pay the remaining cash (cash remaining after operating expenses etc. has been
covered), called the residual cash flows, to the owners as a cash dividend, or reinvest the cash in
the business.
Cash flow diagram
A firm is unprofitable when it fails to generate sufficient cash flows.
Firms that are unprofitable over time will be forced into bankruptcy by their creditors.
In bankruptcy, the company will either be reorganised, or the company's assets will be
liquidated.
Three fundamental decisions in financial management: popular exam Qu
The Capital Budgeting decisions: The decision process through which the company purchases
long-term productive assets. Productive assets- tangible and intangible assets a company uses to
generate cash flow.
Identifying the productive assets the company should buy.
The Financing decisions: are concerned with the ways in which companies obtain and manage
long term financing to acquire and support their productive assets. Debt or equity?
Determining how the company should finance or pay for the assets.
Working capital management decisions: After a productive asset has been purchased, and the
business is operating, the company will try to produce products at the lowest possible cost
whilst maintaining quality. WCM is the management of current assets and current liabilities.
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The focus here is seeing that a company has enough money to pay its bills and that any spare
money is invested to earn interest.
Determining how day to day financial matters should be managed.
How financial managers decisions affect the balance sheet:
Forms of business organisation:
Sole Trader
Is the simplest type of business to start and the least regulated.
All company income is taxed as personal income.
A sole trader has unlimited liability for all business debts and obligations of the company.
(Liable for all business debts).
Partnership
Has the same basic advantages and disadvantages as a sole trader.
When a transfer of ownership takes place the partnership is terminated, and a new partnership is
formed.
The problem of unlimited liability can be avoided in a limited partnership.
Company
In a legal sense, it is a person distinct from its owners.
The owners of a company are its shareholders.
A major advantage of the company form of business is that shareholders have limited liability.
The owners of companies are subject to double taxation first at the corporate level and then at
the personal level when dividends are paid to them.
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Cash flow diagram: a firm is unprofitable when it fails to generate sufficient cash flows, firms that are unprofitable over time will be forced into bankruptcy by their creditors. In bankruptcy, the company will either be reorganised, or the company"s assets will be liquidated. Three fundamental decisions in financial management: popular exam qu: the capital budgeting decisions: the decision process through which the company purchases long-term productive assets. Productive assets- tangible and intangible assets a company uses to generate cash flow. Identifying the productive assets the company should buy: the financing decisions: are concerned with the ways in which companies obtain and manage long term financing to acquire and support their productive assets. Wcm is the management of current assets and current liabilities. The focus here is seeing that a company has enough money to pay its bills and that any spare money is invested to earn interest: determining how day to day financial matters should be managed.

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