Q. Explain Financial Management in brief?
In the management of business firms, there are various well known functional areas such as Production Management, Materials Management, Marketing Management, Human Resource Management, etc. In addition to these areas, there is an area of Financial Management also. All these functional areas are interrelated and practically equally important in any firm. The financial management provides oxygen to the life of a firm by providing uninterrupted flow of funds throughout the firm and thus helps achieving the ultimate objectives of the firm. The finance function is related to every other functional area of the management, wherever and wherever a policy decisions is to be taken. The reason is obvious. Every policy decision involves some or other financial implication. The relationship between financial management and other functional areas has been analyzed in the following discussion.