THE SAINT AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA

NAME JOHN. ISACK. J

COURSE PGDAF
SUBJECT CORPORATE FINANCE
SUBJECT CODE FI500
LECTURE NAME MRAWA DANIEL
DATEOF SUBMISSION MONDAY 18 2019

QUESTIONS
1. Explain the meaning of corporate finance
2. Explain the role of corporate finance manager in Morden business management
QUESTION ONE
Corporate finance is the area of finance that dealing with source of funding, the
capital structure of the corporations and investment decisions, its also include tools
and analyses used to allocate the financial resources.the primary goal of the corporate
finance is to maximise or increase shareholder value through planning and
implementing management resources while balancing risk and profitability.
Corporate finance is often associated with firm’s decision to undertake capital investment
and other investment-related decisions, it deal with providing money for the business and
the source that provide them, the source provide capital to corporation to pay for structural,
improvement, expansion and other value added projects.

QUESTION TWO
The role of financial managers in Morden business management is changing in response to
technological advances that have significantly reduced the amount of time it take to get
financial informations and prepare repots, with the main responsibility of monitoring
company finances, financial managers perform data analyse more easily and advise senior
managers on profit maximisation ideas.
Some of the major functions of financial managers are as follows

Estimate capital requirement

This role require the financial manager to make estimations with regard to capital
requirement of the company.his will depend upon expected cost and profit and future
program and policies of the concern. Estimation is to be made in adequate manner which
increase earning capacity of the firm.the estimations of the capital requirement will involve
cost of assets, both the fixed assets and current assets. Estimation of the capital must
involve analyses of the returns.
Financial risk management
Companies that enter into transactions or companies which has subsidiaries, associates or
parents abroad are often subjected to the transaction risk, translation risks and economic risk
Transactions risk arise on the short-term foreign currency transactions that the actual
income or cost may be different from the income or cost expected when the traction was
agreed, it refers to the adverse effect that foreign exchange rate fluctuations can have on
completed transaction prior to the settlement.
Translation risk is the risk of change in the financial position of the company (assets,
liabilities and equity) due to exchange rate changes and usually seen while reporting the
consolidated financial financial statement of multiple subsidiaries operating overseas in
domestic currency
Economic risk, transaction risk is seen as short-term manifestation of economic risk,
which could be defined as the risk of the present value of the companies expected future
cash flows being affected by the exchange rate movement over the time
Its difficult to measure economic risk although its effects can be described and and its also
difficult to hedge against it.
Its role of the financial manager to manage transaction risk, translation risk, economic risk
and other financial risks.

Investment decisions
Morden financial managers must have knowledge on investment decisions this will help to
know much to invest in real assets and which specific projects to undertake (capital
budgeting decisions) and provide analytical techniques to aid these sorts of decision the
financial experts has to be aware of a wide variety of factor which might have some
influence on the wisdom of proceeding with a particular investment.these range from
corporate strategy and budgeting restrictions to culture and commitment of individuals
likely to be called upon to support an activity.

Determine capital structure and Choose source of fund

Once the requirement of the capital funds has been determined ,a decision regarding the
kind and proportional of the various source of fund has been taken, for this the financial
manager has to determine source of fund which may either debt finance or issue share or
the proper mix of the equity and debt. The capital structure is a particular combination of
debt and equity used by the company to finance its overall operations and debt come in form
of bond issue or loan while equity may come in the form of common stock preference stock
or retained earnings.

Treasury management
The management of cash may fall under aegis of the financial manager. Many firm has
larger of the cash which need to be managed properly to obtain a high return for
shareholders. Monitor and control of the flow of the cash coming into and going out the
organization, helping ensure the company business and investment needier met, in
organizations huge cash (tied cash) may cost organisation hence its responsibility of the
manager to keep liquid assets to cover cash flow and cost of inventory consumable
suppliers. Other areas of responsibilities might include inventory control creditors and
debtors management and issue of solvency.

Conclusion
The study Corporate finance has primary goal of maximise shareholder value and deal with
monetary decisions that the business entity make, financial managers help the management
to make financial decisions by monitor financial details to ensure that legal requirement are
meet, review company financial reports and seek way to reduce cost, prepare financial
statements business activities reports and forecasts and analyse market trends to find
opportunities for expansion or for acquiring other companies.
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