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CHAPTER 1 PART 2

Introduction to Financial Management A: Jobs in Finance


● Ownership Structure  Banking
○ East Asian: Few institutional investors  Investments
 Insurance
○ West:
 Corporation
● Cross Holdings  Government
○ East asian hold one another’s shares called PART 3
“Keiretsu” Forms of Business Organization
■ Indirectly under common of firm A Type of Advantages Disadvantages
● Pyramidal Structure Business
○ Consists of a group with a top-down chain Proprietorships 1. Easy and 1. Unlimited personal liability
Owned by one Inexpensive 2. Limited to the life of the
ownership control individual 2. Few regulations individual
3. Lower income 3. Difficult getting capital
PART 1 taxes
A. What is Finance? Partnerships 1. Pro-rata income 1. Subject to unlimited personal
to be taxed liability
Finance: system that includes the circulation of money, Legal arrangement
individually to
between two or more
the granting of credit, the making of investments, and the people avoid corporate
provision of banking facilities income tax

Corporations 1. Unlimited life 1. High taxes (double)


Areas of Finance Legal entity created 2. Limited Liability S Corps: same as prop and
Divided Into Three Areas: by a state and 3. High capital partnership and private
separate 100 holders
1. Financial Management: corporate finance that
focuses on decision making C Corps: large groups and public
Limited 1. Limited liability
a. How much and what assets to acquire 2. Taxed as
b. How to raise capital Liability partnerships
c. How to run a firm Companies 3 Investors vote
(LCCs)
Hybrid od partnership
2. Capital Markets: markets where interest rates and corporation
and stock and bond prices are determined
Limited Liability: reduce risk born to investors
3. Investments: decisions concerning stocks and Firm’s Value: dependent on growth opportunities which
bonds depend on capital attraction
a. Security Analysis - proper value of Value of an Asset: dependent on liquidity
securities
b. Portfolio Theory - best way to structure PART 4
portfolios “baskets”
The Main Financial Goal: Creating Value for Inv.
c. Market Analysis - issuance with prices as
“too high/low/about right”
A. Determinants of Value
i. Behavioral Finance
1st Row: Influence level and risk of future cash flows for
B. Finance within an Organization <
stock prices
Usually has an organization chart
● Board of Directors: top governing body
Managerial Actions | Economic Environment | Taxes |
chairperson at the top
Political Climate
● Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
● Chief Operating Officer (COO) usually a
2nd Row: The Investors Expectations
firm’s president
“true” if they have the information
● Chief Financial Officer (CFO) senior VP and
“perceived” if they have limited information
third in rank
“True/Perceived” Cas Flows | “True/Perceived”
If the firm if public, CEO and CFO must certify to SEC
Risk”
required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
3rd Row:
C. Finance vs. Economics and Accounting <
Intrinsic value estimate of stock’s true value
Finances comes from Economics and Accounting
Market Price actual market price seen by the Marginal
Economists: asset’s value is based on Future CF assets
Investor
will provide
Equilibrium actual price and intrinsic value is same
Accountants: provide the likelihood
Market Equilibrium:
Intrinsic Valie = Stock Price
B. Intrinsic Value
These are estimates but we can’t check if they are right
 Management should set a goal to increase
intrinsic value not the current

C. Consequences of Having a Short-Run Focus


Caused employees to abuse the system therefore the need
for effective procedures for corporate governance is
required

Corporate Governance: establishment of rules which are


made by the Board

PART 5
Stockholder-Manager Conflicts

A. Compensation Packages
B. Direct Stockholder Intervention
C. Managers’ Response
PART 6
Stockholder-Debtholder Conflicts

PART 7
Balancing Shareholder Interest and the Interest of
Society
PART 8
Business Ethics

A. What Companies are Doing


B. Consequences of Unethical Behavior
C. How Should Employees Deal with Unethical
Behavior

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