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The meaning of the term finance is where money is provided for a commercial activity either public or personal. As a branch of a broader subject ‘economics', it can also be viewed as a method of managing assets. If you prefer, it can also be a general term which encompasses the entire subject of managing and supplying money in the business and private sector. Large companies with even larger portfolios will employ a finance manager to help control their assets.
This involves lending money to another company or individual, either from internal resources or externally. The term optimization is used to explain the procedure whereby finance is maximized by reducing costs and increasing the return. Bad debts are poor finance management where rules have not been followed; the result of this is depressed markets, low production and a cash crisis. The risks for a company are high if poor decisions are made and this is the reason finance managers do not last very long in this field.
A well know marketing and management guru Lee Iacocca said that finance managers always looked at the cost involved in a finance deal and not the future return. Finance managers are the pessimists whereas sales managers are the optimists who look to the future and not to the past! For most small business owners there is not a clear distinction between personal and business which often leads to the funds being used in areas that are not part of the arrangement. Managers are rarely impressed with this situation as they believe they have aright to know what their money is being used for.
By stopping business borrowing this way it is hoped they will start to see the importance of maintaining good practices which should help with investment later on. Fortunately, small businesses can always use the more approved methods of friends or relations to help provide finance. Obviously the more finance that is provided by outside sources the more it ignites the profitability of the lender. A famous quote about banks goes something like; banks are only interested and willing to lend money to those individuals that least need or want it.
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