Lecture 3
Lecture 3
• So what is Finance?
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Why do we need to manage finances?
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To obtain funding for a business project
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financing businesses
• Each type of business can have different ways to
finance itself, so we need to look at types of business
ownerships
• Long Term
• Short Term
• 'Inorganic Growth‘
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Long Term
– SHARES - LOANS
• Merchant or Investment
• New share issues Banks
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Business Growth, External, Short Term
• Factoring is a financial transaction whereby a business
sells its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party
(called a factor) at a discount in exchange for immediate
money
• Merger
• Takeover
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External Sources of Finance
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Long term (Means?)2
–Government/EU – may offer loans
in certain circumstances
• Grants
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Short Term
• Trade credit – Careful management of trade
credit can help ease cash flow – usually
between 28 and 90 days to pay
• Factoring – the sale of debt to a specialist firm
who secures payment and charges a
commission for the service.
• Leasing – provides the opportunity to secure
the use of capital without ownership –
effectively a hire agreement
'Inorganic Growth'
• Acquisitions
• The necessity of financing external
inorganic growth
– Merger:
• firms agree to join together – both may
retain some form of identity
– Takeover:
• One firm secures control of the other,
the firm taken over may lose its identity
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Conclusion
• The perception of Facility Management has
changed significantly in the past years to
Business Process Management approach
hence facility management goes beyond
the physical building /asserts