1. When would you use cash-flow calculations? What kind of information do they give you about operations?
2. What kinds of decisions about operations do you make based on what you learn from cash-flow statements?
3. How do the value of securities and investments affect what you’re doing on a regular basis? How do they affect your critical mission and overall operations? How do they affect your ability to expand operations or add staff?
4. In the course I’m taking on the time value of money, we’ve looked at annuities and perpetuities. How do annuities and perpetuities affect your ongoing work, if at all?
5. I’d like to find ways to use the time value of money tools that I’ve been learning about to become a better operational manager. What general recommendations do you have?