Chapter 1

The Role and

Environment
of Managerial
Finance

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Learning Goals

1. Define finance, its major areas and opportunities

available in this field, and the legal forms of business
organization.
2. Describe the managerial finance function and its
relationship to economics and accounting.
3. Identify the primary activities of the financial
manager.
4. Explain the goal of the firm, corporate governance,
the role of ethics, and the agency issue.

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Learning Goals (cont.)

5. Understand financial institutions and markets,

and the role they play in managerial finance.

6. Discuss business taxes and their importance in

financial decisions.

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What is Finance?

Finance can be defined as the art and science of

managing money.

Finance is concerned with the process,

institutions, markets, and instruments involved
in the transfer of money among individuals,
businesses, and governments.

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Major Areas & Opportunities in Finance:
Financial Services

Financial Services is the area of finance

concerned with the design and delivery of
advice and financial products to individuals,
businesses, and government.
Career opportunities include banking, personal
financial planning, investments, real estate, and
insurance.

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Major Areas & Opportunities in Finance:
Managerial Finance

Managerial finance is concerned with the duties of the

financial manager in the business firm.
The financial manager actively manages the financial
affairs of any type of business, whether private or
public, large or small, profit-seeking or not-for-profit.
They are also more involved in developing corporate
strategy and improving the firms competitive position.

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Major Areas & Opportunities in Finance:
Managerial Finance (cont.)

Increasing globalization has complicated the

financial management function by requiring
them to be proficient in managing cash flows in
different currencies and protecting against the
risks inherent in international transactions.
Changing economic and regulatory conditions
also complicate the financial management
function.

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Table 1.1 Strengths and Weaknesses of the
Common Legal Forms of Business Organization

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Figure 1.1 Corporate Organization

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Table 1.3 Career Opportunities in
Managerial Finance

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The Managerial Finance Function

The size and importance of the managerial finance

function depends on the size of the firm.
In small companies, the finance function may be
performed by the company president or accounting
department.
As the business expands, finance typically evolves into
a separate department linked to the president as was
previously described in Figure 1.1.

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Economics

The field of finance is actually an outgrowth of

economics.
In fact, finance is sometimes referred to as
financial economics.
Financial managers must understand the
economic framework within which they operate
in order to react or anticipate to changes in
conditions.

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Economics (cont.)

The primary economic principal used by

financial managers is marginal cost-benefit
analysis which says that financial decisions
should be implemented only when added
benefits exceed added costs.

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Accounting

The firms finance (treasurer) and accounting

(controller) functions are closely-related and
overlapping.

In smaller firms, the financial manager generally

performs both functions.

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Accounting (cont.)

One major difference in perspective and

emphasis between finance and accounting is that
accountants generally use the accrual method
while in finance, the focus is on cash flows.
The significance of this difference can be
illustrated using the following simple example.

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Accounting (cont.)

The Nassau Corporation experienced the following

activity last year:

Sales $100,000 (1 yacht sold, 100% still uncollected)

Costs $ 80,000 (all paid in full under supplier terms)

Now contrast the differences in performance under the

accounting method versus the cash method.

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Accounting (cont.)

INCOME STATEMENT SUMMARY

ACCRUAL CASH
Sales $100,000 $ 0
Less: Costs (80,000) (80,000)
Net Profit/(Loss) $ 20,000 $(80,000)

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The Managerial Finance Function:
Relationship to Accounting (cont.)

Finance and accounting also differ with respect to

decision-making.
While accounting is primarily concerned with the
presentation of financial data, the financial manager is
primarily concerned with analyzing and interpreting
this information for decision-making purposes.
The financial manager uses this data as a vital tool for
making decisions about the financial aspects of the
firm.

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Figure 1.2 Financial Activities

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Goal of the Firm: Maximize Profit???

Profit maximization fails to account for differences in the level

of cash flows (as opposed to profits), the timing of these cash
flows, and the risk of these cash flows.

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Goal of the Firm:
Maximize Shareholder Wealth!!!

Why?
Because maximizing shareholder wealth properly considers cash
flows, the timing of these cash flows, and the risk of these cash flows.
This can be illustrated using the following simple stock valuation
equation:

level & timing

of cash flows
Share Price = Future Dividends
Required Return risk of cash
flows

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Goal of the Firm:
Maximize Shareholder Wealth!!! (cont.)

The process of shareholder wealth maximization

can be described using the following flow chart:

Figure 1.3 Share Price Maximization

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Goal of the Firm:
What About Other Stakeholders?

Stakeholders include all groups of individuals who

have a direct economic link to the firm including
employees, customers, suppliers, creditors, owners, and
others who have a direct economic link to the firm.
The "Stakeholder View" prescribes that the firm make a
conscious effort to avoid actions that could be
detrimental to the wealth position of its stakeholders.
Such a view is considered to be "socially responsible."

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Individual versus Institutional Investors

Individual investors are investors who purchase relatively small

quantities of shares in order to earn a return on idle funds, build
a source of retirement income, or provide financial security.

Institutional investors are investment professionals who are paid

to manage other peoples money.

They hold and trade large quantities of securities for individuals,

businesses, and governments and tend to have a much greater
impact on corporate governance.

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 The Agency Issue:
The Agency Problem

Whenever a manager owns less than 100% of the firms equity, a

potential agency problem exists.
In theory, managers would agree with shareholder wealth
maximization.
However, managers are also concerned with their personal
wealth, job security, fringe benefits, and lifestyle.
This would cause managers to act in ways that do not always
benefit the firm shareholders.

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The Agency Issue:
Resolving the Problem

Market Forces such as major shareholders and

the threat of a hostile takeover act to keep
managers in check.
Agency Costs are the costs borne by
stockholders to maintain a corporate governance
structure that minimizes agency problems and
contributes to the maximization of shareholder
wealth.

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The Agency Issue:
Resolving the Problem (cont.)

Examples would include bonding or monitoring

management behavior, and structuring
management compensation to make
shareholders interests their own.
A stock option is an incentive allowing
managers to purchase stock at the market price
set at the time of the grant.

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The Agency Issue:
Resolving the Problem (cont.)

Performance plans tie management

compensation to measures such as EPS growth;
performance shares and/or cash bonuses are
used as compensation under these plans.
Recent studies have failed to find a strong
relationship between CEO compensation and
share price.

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Financial Institutions & Markets

Firms that require funds from external sources

can obtain them in three ways:
through a bank or other financial institution
through financial markets
through private placements

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Financial Institutions & Markets:
Financial Institutions

Financial institutions are intermediaries that channel

the savings of individuals, businesses, and governments
into loans or investments.
The key suppliers and demanders of funds are
individuals, businesses, and governments.
In general, individuals are net suppliers of funds, while
businesses and governments are net demanders of
funds.

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Financial Institutions & Markets:
Financial Markets

Financial markets provide a forum in which suppliers

of funds and demanders of funds can transact business
directly.
The two key financial markets are the money market
and the capital market.
Transactions in short term marketable securities take
place in the money market while transactions in long-
term securities take place in the capital market.

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Financial Institutions & Markets:
Financial Markets (cont.)

Whether subsequently traded in the money or capital

market, securities are first issued through the primary
market.
The primary market is the only one in which a
corporation or government is directly involved in and
receives the proceeds from the transaction.
Once issued, securities then trade on the secondary
markets such as the New York Stock Exchange or
NASDAQ.

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Figure 1.4 Flow of Funds

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The Money Market

The money market exists as a result of the interaction

between the suppliers and demanders of short-term
funds (those having a maturity of a year or less).
Most money market transactions are made in
marketable securities which are short-term debt
instruments such as T-bills and commercial paper.
Money market transactions can be executed directly or
through an intermediary.

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The Money Market (cont.)

The international equivalent of the domestic (U.S.)

money market is the Eurocurrency market.
The Eurocurrency market is a market for short-term
bank deposits denominated in U.S. dollars or other
marketable currencies.
The Eurocurrency market has grown rapidly mainly
because it is unregulated and because it meets the needs
of international borrowers and lenders.

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The Capital Market

The capital market is a market that enables suppliers and

demanders of long-term funds to make transactions.
The key capital market securities are bonds (long-term debt) and
both common and preferred stock (equity).
Bonds are long-term debt instruments used by businesses and
government to raise large sums of money or capital.
Common stock are units of ownership interest or equity in a
corporation.

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International Capital Markets

In the Eurobond market, corporations and

governments typically issue bonds denominated in
dollars and sell them to investors located outside the
United States.
The foreign bond market is a market for foreign
bonds, which are bonds issued by a foreign corporation
or government that is denominated in the investors
home currency and sold in the investors home market.

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