Goals and Functions of Finance
1.What is finance ?
Ans: By the term finance we mean a complete package of investment planning, fund raising, investment, assets and risk (1) management and preservation (R) of distribution of profit.
2.What is financial management?
Ans: Financial Management means planning, organizing, directing and controlling the financial activities such as procurement and 12. W utilization of funds of the enterprise.
3. What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
Ans: A firm runs its operation with in the society, by using the human and natural resources of the society. So it can’t do anything harmful (3) to the society. It is called Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR.
4. The Old French word ‘finuance’ migrated from which word?
Ans:The latin word FINIUS.
5. What is meant by investment in finance?
Ans. In finance, investment means utilization of money for profit or returns.
6. What is corporate finance?
7. Ans: Corporate finance deals with promotion, capitalization, financing, investing financial administration of the corporation.
7. Who is financial manager?
Ans: The financial manager manages the activities of the finance department and takes decisions of the financial management.
8.Elaboration of CSR?
Ans: CSR-Corporate Social Responsibility.
9. What is economic value added (EVA)?
Ans: EVA is a popular measured by many firms to determine whether an investment proposed or existing contributes positively to the owners wealth. EVA is calculated by subtracting the cost of funds used to finance a investment from its after tax operation profits.
10.What is public finance?
Ans : Financing by federal state, local governments and municipal corporations are public finance. It is concerned with the financial requirement, receipts and disbursements of different government bodies.
11. What is Treasurer?
Ans: The treasurer is financial manager of a firm. The controller’s functions are related with primary and internal works of the firms and concentrate the asset side of the balance he sheet.
12. What is financial market?
Ans: A financial market is market for creation
and exchange of financial assets.
13. What is primary market?
Ans: A primary market is a ‘New issues’ market and a firm raises new capital from this market.
14. What is financial institution?
Ans Financial institution serves as intermediaries by channeling the savings of individuals, business governments into loans or investments..
15. What is money market?
Ans: Money market is the market for long vt. term debt, bond the stock. The distinguishing feature of the securities that traded in capital ge, markets is their life of longer than one year common stock that has no maturity period.
16. What is profit maximization ?
Ans: Increasing the monetary or nominal value of profit is known as the profit maximization.
17. What is wealth maximization?
Ans:Wealth maximization means maximizing the net present value or wealth of a course of action to shareholders.
18. Define investment decision?
Ans: Investment decisions relate to selection nt of assets in which funds are to be invested by the firm.