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What Is Business Finance
What Is Business Finance
What Is Business Finance
Business finance is a term that encompasses a wide range of activities and disciplines
revolving around the management of money and other valuable assets. Business finance
programs in universities familiarize students with accounting methodologies, investing strategies
and effective debt management. Small business owners must have a solid understanding of the
principles of finance to keep their companies profitable.
2. Outline of Business Finance?
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
Finance addresses the ways in which individuals and organizations raise and allocate
monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.
3. Syllabus of Business Finance
A. Money in the Nations Economy
1. Money and its evolution
2. Money and its significance.
3. Money as a medium of conveyance
4. Characteristics of Good Money.
5. Kinds of Money
6. Money and the economy
B. Monetary Standards
1. Significance of Money Standards
2. Types of Money Standards
C. The Philippine Monetary System
1. The Philippine Peso
2. Par Value
3. Safeguards in Issuance of Notes and Coins
4. Central Bank Notes
5. The Philippine Mint
Miranda, Gregorio. Essentials of Money, Credit and Banking,Updated Edition 2001
Saldana, Cesar G., Financial Management in the Phil. Setting. AFA Publications Inc., 1st Edition
Week 3 & 4
D. The Value of Money
1. Supply and Demand of Money
2. Standard of Value, Source of Value of Money
3. The Physical Volume of Trade
4. The Transaction Theory
5. The Cash-Balance Theory
6. Effects of the Monetary Instability.
7. Inflation and Deflation
8. Control of Money Supply
Executive Management Services the functional grouping of all units directly reporting
to the Monetary Board or to the Governor
Functional Sectors
o Monetary Stability Sector - mainly responsible for the operations/activities
related to monetary policy formulation and implementation
o Supervision and Examination Sector mainly responsible for the regulation of
banks and other BSP-supervised financial institutions
o Resource Management Sector mainly responsible for the management of
human, financial, and physical resources of the Bank
Security Plant Complex responsible for the production of Philippine currency, security
documents, and commemorative medals and medallions