Maslow Shmaslow
Financial Basics
By Your Bootstraps
Hand Outstretched
Economics Trivia
100

Maslow created a _______ of _______.

Hierarchy.       Needs.

100

The most financial executive in the C-suite

CFO

100

This may be the only source of funding for a brand-new start-up

Personal funds

100

This external financing is permanent, meaning it never needs to be repaid

Equity / share capital

100

Nationality of the Wealth of Nations author

Scottish

200

The top of the pyramid is this type of need

Self-actualization

200

An accountant would call items purchased for use over multiple years this two-part F-word

fixed assets

200

Another name for “ploughed back profit”

Retained profit (or retained earnings)

200

You need reliable cash flows to access this type of external financing

Debt capital

200

This magazine was founded by a Scot in 1843

The Economist

300

Job satisfaction and control over results are typical of this E-word type of motivation

Extrinsic

300

Purchase of a robotic tool would be this type of expenditure

Capital expenditure

300

Riddle daily double:  

Bilbo’s riddle – what’s he got in his pocket?

A ring

300

You don’t have to pay your supplier till next month

Trade credit

300

He called the Treaty of Versailles a "Carthaginian Peace" and left in protest

Keynes

400

Hygiene and motivational needs were proposed by this theorist

Frederick Herzberg

400

Payments to hourly workers would be this type of expenditure

Revenue expenditure

400

Riddle daily double:  What month of the year has 28 days?

All of them

400

Celestial name for rich investors in start-ups

Angel investors

400

This Road to Serfdom author said “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”

Hayek

500

Maslow from lowest to highest

Basic, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization

500

Fall-back plan for a lender.  The house in a mortgage, for example. 

Collateral

500

This type of internal financing is likely only available to firms with established operations.

Sale of assets

500

Grameen, for example

Microcredit

500

Behaviorist Nobel Laureate, one of many from U Chicago

Thaler

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