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BE 4.01
role of finance and nature of accounting
Term | Definition |
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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 | |