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1 Corporate Finance
1 Corporate Finance
finance
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership (2-10 banking; 20 others: IPA, 1932)
Limited Liability Partnership (2-unlimited: LLP Act, 2008)
Limited Company (2-200 for Pvt. Ltd. Company; 7 or more for a
Public Ltd. Company; ICA 1956/2013)
Financial management
Fundamental financial theories have been
developed around decisions taken in the
corporate setting (Corporate Finance
Decisions) though the underlying logic is
generic and applicable to similar decision
settings whether corporate or any other
form of business organisation (Financial
Management Decisions).
Current
Assets
Fixed Assets
1 Tangible
2 Intangible
Shareholders
Equity
Current
Assets
Fixed Assets
1 Tangible
2 Intangible
Long-Term
Debt
What long-term
investments
should the firm
choose?
Shareholders
Equity
Current
Liabilities
Long-Term
Debt
Shareholders
Equity
Capital Structure
The value of the firm can be
thought of as a pie.
The goal of the manager is
to increase the size of the
pie.
The Capital Structure
decision can be viewed as
how best to slice the pie.
70%50%30%
25%
DebtDebt
Equity
75%
50%
Equity
If how you slice the pie affects the size of the pie,
then the capital structure decision matters.
Current assets
Fixed assets
Financial
markets
Short-term debt
Long-term debt
Dividends and
debt payments (E)
Equity shares
Taxes (D)
Cash flow
from firm (C)
Government
Fixed Assets
1 Tangible
2 Intangible
Current
Liabilities
Net
Working
Capital
How should
short-term assets
be managed and
financed?
Long-Term
Debt
Shareholders
Equity
Treasurer
Controller
Cash Manager
Credit Manager
Tax Manager
Cost Accounting
Capital Expenditures
Financial Planning
Financial Accounting
Data Processing
Agency problem
Separation of ownership and management (information
asymmetry)
Agency problem arises when agents (managers) have a
conflict of interest against principals (owners)
It results in sub-optimal behaviour of managers who may have
an incentive (moral hazard) to engage in activities which may
decrease or destroy firm value (adverse selection) or limit
action on opportunities for enhancement of firm value (risk
aversion)
Agency problem results in loss in firm value either due to
suboptimal behaviour manager or due to cost of monitoring
born to control suboptimal behaviour.
Corporate governance
Executive compensation and performance measurement