Financial Management Overview
Financial Management Overview
Financial Management Overview
AN OVERVIEW
2 CONTENTS
Introduction
Nature and Scope of Financial Management
Role of finance function
Finance decisions for the firm
• Investment decisions
• Financing decisions
• Dividend decisions
• Working capital decisions
Integrated view of finance decision-making
Financial decision making framework
CHAPTER 1
3 CONTENTS
I NTRODUCTION
Basic issues in finance are essentially the
same for diverse businesses.
The key issues in finance are:
• Where to raise financial resources from?
• Wherein to invest the resources?
• How best to manage the production-
distribution function?
• How much of profit to distribute and how
much to retain?
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT – AN OVERVIEW CHAPTER 1
N ATURE A ND S COPE O F F INANCIAL
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M ANAGEMENT