Business Principles Chapter 18

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Capital Budget
Highlights a firm's spending plans for major asset purchases that requir large sums of money
Cash Budget
Estimates a firm's projected cash inflows and outflows that the firm can use for any cash shortages or surpluses during a given time period
Operating Budget
Ties together all of a firm's other budgets, projection of dollar allocations to various costs and expenses need to run business
Financial Control
Process in which a firm periodically compares it's actual revenues, costs and expenses with it's budget
Needs for Operating Funds
Managing day by day needs of the business controlling credit operations aquiring needed inventory making capitol expenditures
Capitol Expenditures
Major investments in either tangible long term assets such as land, buildings and machines or intangible assets such as patents, trade marks and copyrights
Debt Financing
Funds borrowed that must be repaid
Equity Financing
Funds raised from operations inside the firm or through the sale of stock (ownership in the firm)
Leverage
Rasing needed funds through borrowing to increase the firm's rate of return
Cost of Capital
The rate of return a company must earn in order to meet the demands of it's lenders and expection of it's share holders.