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BE 4.01
role of finance and nature of accounting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accounting | The process of keeping and interpreting financial records |
| Accounts payable | All monies owed by the business to others |
| Accounts receivable | All monies owned to a firm by its customers |
| Acquisition of funds | Finance activity involving making decisions about financing |
| Administration of assets | Finance activity involving making decisions about a firms investment |
| Asset(s) | Anything of value that a business or individual owns |
| Capital budgeting | A process in which a firm's financial managers determine which projects it should invest in |
| Capital investment decisions | Decisions that determine which projects a business will invest in, how the investment(s) will be financed |
| capital structure | A firm's mix of financing, usually some combination of debt and equity |
| cash conversion cycle | Ratio that 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 lean by a bank or other institution to finance a project |
| dividend | |
| Equity funding | |
| finance | |
| financing | |
| return on capital | |
| Venture capital | |
| Working capital management | |
| Accountant | |