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Exercise 5.Translate the text
FinanceFunction
Any business__whether large or small, profit- seeking or
non- for-profit __ has important financial concerns:
How to get the fundsneeded to run the business on
favourable terms andhow to make sure that the funds are used
effectively?
In this connection modern businesses have financial
managers to look afterthese problems, whose major objective is
to maximize the value of the firm for its owners, i.e. to
maximize the shareholders’ wealth, wjich is represented by the
market price of a firm’s common stock.
Managers daily face questions like the following:
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What assets to acquire ?
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Will a particular investment bebprofitable ?
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Where will the funds come from to finance the
investment ?
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How much to maintain as equity capital ?
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Does the firm have adequate cash or access to cash –
through bank borrowing agreements, for example, to meet its
daily operating needs ?
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Which customers should be offered credit and how
much should they be offered ?
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How much inventory should be held ?
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Is the merger or acquisition advisable ?
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How should profits be used or distributed ? What is the
optimal dividend policy ?
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How should the firm behave in the situation of
exchange rate variations and interest rate changes ?
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How should risk to which the firm is exposed and
return be balanced ?
Financial managers are primarily concerned with the
management of fixed assets, working capital management,
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includingmanagement of current assets and current
liabilities,cash management, receivables management and
inventory management;they are responsible for designing
capital structure, choosing long- and short –term financing
techniques.
The financial manager has to take these decisions with
reference to the objectives of the firm.
To have a better understanding of how managers go about
all these concerns one should know what resources managers
typically have at their disposal. The position of an enterprise,
its assets and capital are best illustrated by its financial
statements ___the balance sheet and the income statement.
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