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Introduction to
Financial
Management

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What is Finance?

•Finance is the study


of financial planning,
asset management,
and fund raising for
businesses and
financial institutions.
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Basic Areas Of Finance


• Corporate finance
• Investments
• Financial institutions
• International finance

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Investments
• Work with financial assets such as
stocks and bonds
• Value of financial assets, risk versus
return, and asset allocation
• Job opportunities
– Stockbroker or financial advisor
– Portfolio manager
– Security analyst

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Financial Institutions
• Companies that specialize in financial
matters
– Banks – commercial and investment, credit
unions, savings and loans
– Insurance companies
– Brokerage firms
• Job opportunities

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International Finance
• This is an area of specialization within each of
the areas discussed so far
• It may allow you to work in other countries or
at least travel on a regular basis
• Need to be familiar with exchange rates and
political risk
• Need to understand the customs of other
countries; speaking a foreign language
fluently is also helpful

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Financial Management
• Financial Management is the managerial
activity which is concerned with planning
and control of a firm’s financial resources
• Financial management can be described
using a balance sheet.

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Why Study Finance?


• Marketing
– Budgets, marketing research, marketing financial
products
• Accounting
– Dual accounting and finance function, preparation
of financial statements
• Management
– Strategic thinking, job performance, profitability
• Personal finance
– Budgeting, retirement planning, college planning,
day-to-day cash flow issues
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Business Finance
• Some important questions that are
answered using finance
– What long-term investments should the firm
take on?
– Where will we get the long-term financing to
pay for the investments?
– How will we manage the everyday financial
activities of the firm?

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Financial Manager
• Financial managers try to answer some, or
all, of these questions
• The top financial manager within a firm is
usually the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
– Treasurer – oversees cash management, credit
management, capital expenditures, and financial
planning
– Controller – oversees taxes, cost accounting,
financial accounting, and data processing

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Financial Management
Decisions
• Capital budgeting
– What long-term investments or projects
should the business take on?
• Capital structure
– How should we pay for our assets?
– Should we use debt or equity?
• Working capital management
– How do we manage the day-to-day
finances of the firm?

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Forms of Business Organization


• Three major forms in the United States
– Sole proprietorship
– Partnership
• General
• Limited
– Corporation
• S-Corp
• Limited liability company

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Sole Proprietorship

• Advantages • Disadvantages
– Easiest to start – Limited to life of owner
– Least regulated – Equity capital limited to
– Single owner keeps owner’s personal
all of the profits wealth
– Taxed once as – Unlimited liability
personal income – Difficult to sell
ownership interest

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Partnership

• Advantages • Disadvantages
– Two or more owners – Unlimited liability
– More capital available • General partnership
• Limited partnership
– Relatively easy to
start – Partnership dissolves
– Income taxed once as when one partner dies
personal income or wishes to sell
– Difficult to transfer
ownership

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Corporation
• Advantages • Disadvantages
– Limited liability – Separation of
– Unlimited life ownership and
– Separation of management (agency
ownership and problem)
management – Double taxation
– Transfer of ownership (income taxed at the
is easy corporate rate and
then dividends taxed
– Easier to raise capital at personal rate, while
dividends paid are not
tax deductible)

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Goal Of Financial Management


• What should be the goal of a corporation?
– Maximize profit?
– Minimize costs?
– Maximize market share?
– Maximize the current value of the company’s
stock?
• Does this mean we should do anything
and everything to maximize owner wealth?

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Function of Financial Manager


1a.Raising
2.Investments funds

Operations Financial Financial


1b.Obligations
(plant, Manager (stocks, debt Markets
equipment, securities) (investors)
3.Cash from
projects) operational
activities
4.Reinvesting 5.Dividends or
interest
payments

Finance function – managing the cash flow


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The Agency Problem


• Agency relationship
– Principal hires an agent to represent its
interests
– Stockholders (principals) hire managers
(agents) to run the company
• Agency problem
– Conflict of interest between principal and
agent
• Management goals and agency costs

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Managing Managers
• Managerial compensation
– Incentives can be used to align management and
stockholder interests
– The incentives need to be structured carefully to
make sure that they achieve their goal
• Corporate control
– The threat of a takeover may result in better
management
• Other stakeholders

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Example: Work the Web


• The Internet provides a wealth of
information about individual companies
• One excellent site is finance.yahoo.com
• Click on the Web surfer to go to the site,
choose a company and see what
information you can find!

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Figure 1.2

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Financial Markets
• Cash flows to the firm
• Primary vs. secondary markets
– Dealer vs. auction markets
– Listed vs. over-the-counter securities
• NYSE
• NASDAQ

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Quick Quiz
• What are the four basic areas of finance?
• What are the three types of financial
management decisions, and what questions
are they designed to answer?
• What are the three major forms of business
organization?
• What is the goal of financial management?
• What are agency problems, and why do they
exist within a corporation?

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