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Course Description A manager’s success depends largely on his or her ability to manage a company’s assets. This mission is complicated by the interdependent nature of a company’s finances. One short-term financial problem, such as a cash flow shortage, can cause a longer-term credit problem, such as denials for bank loans. The successful manager must be able to quickly identify and resolve such short-term problems in order to prevent their long-term deleterious effects. This course is intended for effective business managers and entrepreneurs. Covering every facet of the daily management of a business’s finances, it is designed to help managers pinpoint, remedy, and prevent business and financial problems. In each case, it also points out potential ripple effects—the ways in which a problem in one sector can disrupt operations in other areas.
Learning Objectives • After studying this chapter, you will be able to: • Recognize signs in the concept of revenue base erosion. • Identify irrelevant cost factors when evaluation special orders. • Identify causes of a high level of merchandise returns that can affect business profits. • Identify the causes of low turnover of merchandise. • Recognize trade-offs between excessive inventory ordering and carrying costs. • Identify order costs and carrying costs associated with inventory management. • Recognize how the economic order quantity (EOQ) applies to inventory management. • Identify technologies used to improve inventory tracking and management. • Recognize reasons that create a lack of inventory storage space. • Identify concepts used in the analysis of profitability. • Recognize ways to reduce the break-even point, and limitations of break-even analysis. • Recognize how to apply cost-volume-profit analysis. • Identify the problems of a weak sales mix and the causes of falling sales or profits. • Identify the risk-return trade-off. • Recognize components of interest rate risk. • Identify factors relating to a lack of diversification and increased risk. • Recognize signs of existing or potential financial problems. • Recognize influences that can adversely affect the market price of a stock. • Identify the objectives of debt rating services and some bond terminology. • Recognize characteristics of evaluating stock prices. • Identify the conditions when bankruptcy looms. • Recognize steps management can take to avoid business failure. • Recognize uses of the Altman Z-Score for spotting risky companies. • Identify measures that a company can take to avoid a takeover threat. • Recognize common ratios used by companies to help manage cash positions. • Identify ways to improve cash flow and return on surplus funds. • Identify early warning signs of a company going broke. • Identify ways to minimize the impact of vendor's price increases. • Calculate the advantage of accepting vendor terms and discounts. • Recognize the reasons for poor credit ratings. • Identify methods to prevent check signing fraud and improper payments. • Recognize commonly used financial ratios that help spot liquidity problems. • Identify early warning signals for inadequate liquidity. • Recognize ways to improve return on investment and how return on equity is calculated. • Identify methods to identify a low rate of return and the signs for poor quality of earnings. • Recognize how to determine the stability/instability in product revenue over time. • Identify the causes for excessive labor costs. • Recognize the concept associated with operating leverage. • Recognize the applications of activity-based costing. • Understand how a profit-maximizing firm would adjust prices at different levels of demand. • Identify how actual costs can exceed standard (budgeted) costs. • Recognize how to compute an efficiency variance. • Recognize ways to spot record-keeping errors. • Recognize the characteristics of different corporate structures used to affect tax planning and preparation. Revision Date: 1/25/23
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