Goals of Financial Management Maximize Profits A company’s most important goal is to make money and keep it. Profit-margin ratios are one way to measure how much money a company squeezes from its total revenue or total sales. There are three key profit-margin ratios: gross profit margin‚ operating profit margin and net profit margin. 1. Gross Profit Margin The gross profit margin tells us the profit a company makes on its cost of sales or cost of goods sold. In other words‚ it indicates
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Activity 2 for FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN SCHOOLS Make a research on governance and accountability in handling the finances of the school. Then assume you are the principal or school head and answer the following questions below. 1. What is the role of governance and accountability in the general expenditures of the school? As stated in Sec. 5 of Republic Act 9155‚ shared governance is a principle which recognizes that every unit in the education bureaucracy has a particular role‚ task
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Auditing and Assurance Services‚ 14e (Arens) Chapter 1 The Demand for Audit and Other Assurance Services Learning Objective 1-1 1) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act applies to which of the following companies? A) All companies. B) Privately held companies. C) Public companies. D) All public companies and privately held companies with assets greater than $500 million. Answer: C Terms: Sarbanes-Oxley Act Diff: Easy Objective: LO 1-1 AACSB: Reflective thinking skills Topic: SOX 2) Which
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Andrew Kang 2/12/15 Multiple Choice Questions COM 100 – Professor Parsons 1. Co-rumination is defined as excessively talking with friends about ____________. A. personal successes B. individual achievements C. problems and concerns D. other people Answer – C. 2. What kind of feedback is the honest and ethical response a receiver provides to the messages of others? A. Communicative B. Healthy C. Relative D. Reasoned Answer – B. 3. What is the correct term for determining what is right or wrong
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Looking For Reality A. Knowledge from Agreement Reality—as scientists‚ sociologists are able to accept as reality phenomenon they have not personally observed. However‚ scientific claims must rest on both theoretical and empirical support. 1. Ordinary human inquiry—people are naturally inquisitive‚ especially about what the future holds. Therefore‚ we often try to make predictions based on our own observations of the social world. Unfortunately‚ just because we can predict that X will
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5/8/2012 Definition Of Management FUNDAMENTAL OF MANAGEMENT (MGT162) CHAPTER 1 (part 1): INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT “The process of administering and coordinating resources effectively‚ efficiently‚ and in an effort to achieve the goals of the organization” (Lewis) “The process of planning‚ organizing‚ leading & controlling that encompasses human‚ material‚ financial & information resources in an organizational environment”(Holt) “The process of planning‚ organizing‚ leading & controlling
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once were. As a consultant called in for advice‚ I see several problems in the company’s production as well as quality control. The decline has less to do with “the economy” and more in Toys‚ Inc’s approach to their management of quality. As Stevenson (2012) reminds us‚ “top management has the ultimate responsibility for quality” (pg. 377). The recent moves to make cuts in production costs and layoffs in the design and development departments are going to do more harm than good to the company’s
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1.1 The Role of The Financial Manager LEARNING OBJECTIVE 1 Identify the key financial decisions facing the financial manager of any business firm. The financial manager is responsible for making decisions that are in the best interests of the firm’s owners‚ whether the firm is a start-up business with a single owner or a billion-dollar corporation owned by thousands of stockholders. The decisions made by the financial manager or owner should be one and the same. In most situations this means
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Section-A 1. Discuss management accounting as an effective tool of financial control. 2. What do you mean by cash from operating activities? How is it calculated? 3. The “volume-cost-profit relationship provides management with a simplified framework for organizing its thinking on a number of problems.” Discuss 4. Recently a conference speaker discussing budgets & standard costs made the following statement- “Budgets & standard costs are not the same things‚ they have different purposes
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