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BE 4.01 FI-354
Business Activity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accounting | the process of keeping and interpreting financial records |
| accounts payable | all monies owed by the business to others |
| accounts recievable | all monies owed to a firm by its customers |
| acquisition of funds | fiance activity involving making decisions about fiancing |
| administration of assets | fiance activity involoving making decisiions about a firm's investments |
| Asset(s) | anything of value that a business or indiviual owns |
| capital budgeting | a process in which a firm's fiancial managers determine which projects it should invest in |
| capital investment decisions | decisions that determine which projects a business will invest in , how the investmenyt(s) will be fianced ,and whether to pay dividends to shareholders |
| capital structure | a firm's mix of financing ,usually some combination of debt and equaity |
| cash convsersion cycle | ratio hat refers to the number of days between a company paying for raw materials and receiving cash from selling the products made from those raw materials |
| debt funding | using money that is lent by a bank or other istitution to fiance a project |
| dividend | a sum of money paiid to an investor or stockholder as earnings on an investment |
| equity funding | using money from investors to fiance a project in exchange for shares in the company |
| finance | in business , the fuction that involves all money and money management matters |
| financing | funding a business activity or project through debt, equity ,or venture capital |
| return on capital | a measure of how well a business generates cash flow in realtion to the capital it has already invested in itself |
| venture capital | invested money used for new business opportunties |
| working capiatll management | management of a firm's current balance of assets and liabilities ;involves account payable and receivable ,inventory ,and cash |