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2024/2025

Malika belkhiter

First activity in English

Here are answers to the statements, which require a "yes" or "no"


response. If the answer is "no," corrections are provided:

1. Finance may be defined as the science of managing money.


Yes

2. Business accounting concerns with the best way of using available


financial resources to meet business enterprise needs.
Yes
3. There are two (2) types of corporate finance & public finance.
No — Corporate and public finance are types of finance, but finance also
includes personal finance and other fields.
4. Financial management is concerned with the efficient use of capital in
business.
Yes
5. There are two (2) objectives of financial management, maximization of
profit and revenue maximization.
No — The primary objectives are typically profit maximization and wealth
maximization.
6. In modern finance “revenue maximization” is the process that increases
earnings per Share (EPS) in the short-run.
No — Revenue maximization does not specifically aim to increase EPS;
rather, it focuses on increasing sales revenue.
7. Profit maximization refers to the concept of increasing the value of the
shares held by its stockholders.
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No — Profit maximization focuses on short-term profits, whereas


shareholder value or wealth maximization focuses on increasing long-term
share value.
8. Traditional approach of financial management includes arrangement of
funds through various financial instruments (long-run capital to fixed
assets, short-run funds to current assets).
Yes
9. The dividend decision and financial planning are part of the traditional
approach of financial management.
Yes
10. Business cycle consists of the following stages only: launch, shakeout,
maturity, and decline.
No — The business cycle typically includes expansion, peak, contraction,
and trough.
11. Accounting balance sheet includes accounting values of items only.
Yes
12. Financial balance sheet displays real values of items only.
No — A financial balance sheet may show book values or market values,
not just "real" values.
13. Fixed assets contain items owned by the business that have high
liquidity.
No — Fixed assets are typically less liquid compared to current assets.
14. Liquidity orders mean arranging items of the balance sheet according
to their convertibility to cash order.
Yes
15. Owners' equity is placed in a separate category on the assets side.
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No — Owners' equity is on the liabilities side, not the assets side.


16. Current assets include all items owned by the company for which
liquidity is more than a year.
No — Current assets are typically those expected to be converted to cash
within a year.
17. Owners’ equity includes treasury stock.
Yes
18. Treasury stock is a type of bond with a maturity of more than one (1)
year.
No — Treasury stock refers to shares that the company has repurchased,
not a bond.
19. Retained earnings are also called saved profit.
Yes
20. Allocation of capital refers to the efficiency of the funds available to
realize a maximum profit.
Yes.

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