FIN 3704 – APPLIED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT RECAP
QUESTIONS
Common financing methods - ✔✔ Debt financing, Equity Financing, Internal financing,
External financial, Joint Venture, Crowdfunding, Mezzainine, Business Angel
Balance Sheet Ratio Analysis - ✔✔ Debt-Equity, Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, Cash Ratio,
Working Capital
Income Statement Ratio Analysis - ✔✔ Net Profit Margin, EBITDA/EBIT/EBT, Return on
Equity, Return on Assets, Return on Investment
Cash flow statement Analysis - ✔✔ Cash flow margin ratio, Cash flow coverage ratio
What is Strategic Controlling - ✔✔ is a process that involves monitoring and evaluating a
company's performance and progress towards its long-term goals - look from an internal vs
external perspective
Why is strategic controlling relevant? - ✔✔ you can avoid wasting your resources on strategic
initiatives that yield no results. It helps you quickly identify which initiatives are performing well
and which are falling flat, allowing you to allocate resources to high-impact strategic projects
PESTEL - ✔✔ Political
, Economic
Social
Technological
Environmental
Legal
Vision - ✔✔ Short and precise, explciation of the ultimate goal - why we do something?
Mission - ✔✔ Falls between strategy and vision - how we will achieve our vision
strategy - ✔✔ Plan of action for accomplishing an organization's overall and long-range goals.
Basic Elements of Financial Management - ✔✔ Planning, Controlling, Organising & Directing,
Decision-Making, External Accounting, Tax, Risk Accounting, Short term, Medium Term, Long
term
How are Financial Management & Strategic Management linked? - ✔✔ Financial management
focuses on managing the organization's financial resources in order to achieve the objectives set
out in the strategy
Why is financial management important? - ✔✔ a good financial management system enables
you to accomplish important big-picture and daily financial objectives
Explain the two major perspectives of financial management? - ✔✔ Internal vs External -
internal company financial decisions - why something is priced the way it is?
QUESTIONS
Common financing methods - ✔✔ Debt financing, Equity Financing, Internal financing,
External financial, Joint Venture, Crowdfunding, Mezzainine, Business Angel
Balance Sheet Ratio Analysis - ✔✔ Debt-Equity, Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, Cash Ratio,
Working Capital
Income Statement Ratio Analysis - ✔✔ Net Profit Margin, EBITDA/EBIT/EBT, Return on
Equity, Return on Assets, Return on Investment
Cash flow statement Analysis - ✔✔ Cash flow margin ratio, Cash flow coverage ratio
What is Strategic Controlling - ✔✔ is a process that involves monitoring and evaluating a
company's performance and progress towards its long-term goals - look from an internal vs
external perspective
Why is strategic controlling relevant? - ✔✔ you can avoid wasting your resources on strategic
initiatives that yield no results. It helps you quickly identify which initiatives are performing well
and which are falling flat, allowing you to allocate resources to high-impact strategic projects
PESTEL - ✔✔ Political
, Economic
Social
Technological
Environmental
Legal
Vision - ✔✔ Short and precise, explciation of the ultimate goal - why we do something?
Mission - ✔✔ Falls between strategy and vision - how we will achieve our vision
strategy - ✔✔ Plan of action for accomplishing an organization's overall and long-range goals.
Basic Elements of Financial Management - ✔✔ Planning, Controlling, Organising & Directing,
Decision-Making, External Accounting, Tax, Risk Accounting, Short term, Medium Term, Long
term
How are Financial Management & Strategic Management linked? - ✔✔ Financial management
focuses on managing the organization's financial resources in order to achieve the objectives set
out in the strategy
Why is financial management important? - ✔✔ a good financial management system enables
you to accomplish important big-picture and daily financial objectives
Explain the two major perspectives of financial management? - ✔✔ Internal vs External -
internal company financial decisions - why something is priced the way it is?
