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FDM On-Campus Module 1 TheFinancialLandscape

The document provides an overview of financial decision making including discussing the financial landscape, key stakeholders and objectives of organizations, checks and balances on corporate financial activity including the roles of boards and audits, and how financial success is measured.

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FDM On-Campus Module 1 TheFinancialLandscape

The document provides an overview of financial decision making including discussing the financial landscape, key stakeholders and objectives of organizations, checks and balances on corporate financial activity including the roles of boards and audits, and how financial success is measured.

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Financial Decision

Making
2020

Name First Last


Position/Title
Venue or location
Date
Module 1

• The financial landscape


Learning outcomes
• Appreciate the financial landscape and how it impacts on financial
accounting, management accounting and financial management
• Identify the key stakeholders and financial objectives of an
organisation
• Critically analyse the checks and balances on corporate financial
activity, including the role of the board of directors and the audit
process.

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This slide has been intentionally left blank.

Insert here current news and events in your own region


that relate to the learning outcomes on the previous slide
and discuss in class

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Business operations

Owners
and lenders

Cash out Cash in

Investment
to create
wealth

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Decision-making ‘influencers'

Economic
Factors

Financial Government
intermediaries policy
Financial
Decision
Making

Money Capital
markets Markets

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Three disciplines

External: Internal:
Financial statements Control
Historic performance Financial Management Decision making
Accounting Accounting Budgeting
Performance evaluation

Allocating financial resources:


Financial Investment
Management Financing
Dividend
Risk

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How do you measure financial success?
• What were the financial objectives?
• Were they achieved?
• How was performance assessed?

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A word or two about profit and cash

Selling price?

Cost price?

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Stakeholders – examples

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Corporate oversight
• Regulatory industry?
• Board of directors
• Audit
• And yet…..

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How will the module be examined?
• MCQs
• Mini-scenario (one or two questions)
• Short narrative question within a case study

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