Accounting & Finance (Session-8)
Accounting & Finance (Session-8)
Accounting & Finance (Session-8)
& FINANCE
Course Learning Objectives
MODULES
• Get familiarized with the principles and concepts of accounting. Understating the
components of financial statements. How to read a company’s financial
Financial statements.
Accounting
• Get to know the components of a master budget and the classifications of costs.
Managerial Understand the break-even point and the cost-volume-profit analysis.
Accounting
Capital Financin
Dividends
Decide what projects Determine how to Decide how and
to invest in fund capital when to return
investments capital to investors
Earn the highest
Optimize the
possible risk-adjusted
firm’s capital
return
structure
Capital Financin
Dividends
Decide what projects Determine how to Decide how and
to invest in fund capital when to return
investments capital to investors
Earn the highest
Optimize the
possible risk-adjusted
firm’s capital
return
structure
Advantages Disadvantages
• Quick and easy • Uses profits, not cash flows
• Whole life of project considered • Ignores time value of money
• Relative measure % • % can be misleading
Project A repays its capital expenditure of $ 150,000 in Year 4, while Project B does so in Year 3.
Other things being equal, Project B would be selected
Advantages Disadvantages
• Uses cash flow, not profits • Doesn’t consider whole project
• Easy to explain • Ignores time value of money
• Links to liquidity • Not a clear decision
Advantages Disadvantages
• Absolute measure • Reliant on cost of capital
• Consider whole life of project • Complex to explain
• Clear accept/ reject decision • Relies on forecasts
Advantages Disadvantages
• Uses cash flows, not profits • Can produce 0 or multiple IRRs
• Consider whole life of project • Not a real “rate of return”
• Doesn’t need a cost of capital • Relative measure
Capital Financin
Dividends
Decide what projects Determine how to Decide how and
to invest in fund capital when to return
investments capital to investors
Earn the highest
Optimize the
possible risk-adjusted
firm’s capital
return
structure
• Capital structure: the amount of debt and/or equity employed by a firm to fund
its operations and finance its assets.
• In order to optimize the structure, a firm will decide if it needs more debt or equity
and can issue whichever it requires.
Capital Financin
Dividends
Decide what projects Determine how to Decide how and
to invest in fund capital when to return
investments capital to investors
Earn the highest
Optimize the
possible risk-adjusted
firm’s capital
return
structure