Assignment:
Critical Questions - Corporate/Managerial Finance
1. What are the three principal financial statements that are used by businesses? What is the purpose of each? What is the role of ratio analysis?
2. Describe the decisions, advantages and disadvantages of the source of funds for business. What is the risk return tradeoff of the leverage decision of the corporation?
3. What are the three types of business organization and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. What is (are) the purpose(s) of the firm?
4. What are capital budgeting decisions? What are the various financial tools and methods that are used in capital budgeting decisions?
5. What is ‘working capital management' and why has it become so important in recent years?
6. What is corporate governance? What is the role of stockholders and stakeholders in corporate governance decisions? What is (are) the principal agent problem.
7. What are the jobs of the CEO, the CFO, the Treasurer and the Controller?
8. How do companies evaluate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures? What are vertical and horizontal integration? Make or Buy decisions? Supply chain management?
9. Other?