The strategic role of financial management.
What is to achieve strategic/long term business objectives?
The internal source of finance that comes from surplus funds retained in the business.
What is retained profits?
The financial statement that shows a business’s cash inflows and outflows over a period of time.
What is a cash flow statement?
The cash flow management strategy that involves spreading payments across the year to avoid cash shortages.
What is distribution of payments?
The financial institution that pools funds from small investors to invest in a variety of financial assets.
What are unit trusts? (USE THE SYLLABUS TERM!)
The financial objective that focuses on increasing the value and size of the business over time.
What is growth?
The external source of finance that involves a business going 'below zero' in its bank account.
What is a bank overdraft?
The ratio calculated by dividing total liabilities by total equity.
What is the debt-to-equity (gearing) ratio?
The working capital management strategy that involves selling assets and leasing them back to improve liquidity.
What is sale and leaseback?
The financial ratio that measures the percentage of sales revenue remaining after paying for the cost of goods sold.
What is the gross profit ratio?
The interdependence between finance and marketing.
What is finance providing budgets for marketing strategies, while marketing generates revenue to meet financial objectives? (any example is acceptable)
The financial institutions that provides long-term loans and equity funds to large businesses, as well as provides financial advice.
What are investment banks?
The financial process that involves comparing performance over time, against standards, or with similar businesses.
What is comparative ratio analysis?
The profitability management strategy that focuses on reducing fixed and variable costs.
What is cost control?
The financial strategy that involves minimising expenses by identifying and reducing unnecessary costs.
What is expense minimisation?
The difference between short-term and long-term financial objectives.
What is short-term for liquidity, long-term for growth?
The global market influence that refers to the cost of borrowing funds internationally.
What are interest rates?
The limitation of financial reports that occurs when businesses adjust their earnings to appear more stable.
What are normalised earnings?
The global financial strategy that uses financial instruments to reduce the risk of currency fluctuations.
What is hedging?
The ethical/limitation issue in financial reporting where businesses delay recording expenses to make profits appear higher.
What is timing issues?
All the business objectives in the syllabus.
What are profitability, liquidity, efficiency, solvency, growth?
The government organisation responsible for enforcing company taxation and regulating financial practices in Australia.
What is the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)?
The financial process that involves matching the terms and sources of finance to the business purpose.
What is planning and implementing?
The method of international payment where the exporter ships goods before receiving payment.
What is a clean payment?
The birth month and year of Maxibon
What is July 2023?
