BUS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cash Flow, Mutual Fund
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Recently started to be used in hockey to measure player"s wages. Single analytic initiative, common leadership, common technology. Focus on competitive strategy (channel resources and initiatives to. Financial managers: plan and control the acquisition and dispersal of the company"s financial assets. Finance involves 4 responsibilities: determining a firm"s long term investment, obtaining funds to pay for those investments, conducting the firm"s everyday financial activities, managing the risks that a firm takes. Financial managers objective is to increase a firm"s value and stockholder"s wealth. They do many specific things to increase a firm"s value: collect funds, pay debts, establish trade credit, obtain loans, control cash balances, and plan for future financial needs. Must ensure company"s revenue exceeds its cost (earns profit) Cash flow management: managing the pattern in which cash flows into the firm in the form of revenues and out of the firm in the forms of debt payments.