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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Learning Objectives
• Identify the major types of business entities.
• Explain the role of financial managers.
• Specify the objective that is necessary to ensure that financial managers make rational investment and financing decisions.
• Identify the major financial decisions made by the managers of business entities.
• Identify and explain the basic concepts of finance.
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The Nature of Business Finance
• Broad aspects of finance:
– Corporate finance — the financial management of companies.
– Financial institutions and markets.
– Investments.
• Business finance mainly focuses on corporate finance, but it also considers financial institutions, markets and investments.
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Financial Decisions• Major financial decisions are:
– Investment decisions — decisions that determine the asset profile of a business (amount and composition of investments).
– Financing decisions — how the assets are to be funded (debt and equity). Financing decisions also involve dividend decisions.
• Ultimate objective of investment and financing decisions is to maximise the owners’ wealth.
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Business Structures
• Sole proprietorship:
– Business owned by one person.
• Partnership:
– Business owned by two or more people acting as partners.
• Company:
– Separate legal entity formed under the Corporations Act 2001.
• Focus is on financial decision-making by managers of public companies.
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The Finance Function: Major Roles of Financial Managers
• Project evaluation.
• Dividend and share re-purchase decisions.
• Dividend distributions.
• Collection and custody of cash and payment of bills.
• Management of investments in current assets.
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The Finance Function: Major Roles of Financial Managers (cont.)
• Assessing the viability of growth through acquisitions.
• Planning the development of the business.
• Risk management of interest rate and exchange rate.
• Development and implementation of financial policies.
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A Company’s Financial Objective• In order to study the behaviour of financial
managers and understand their decisions, we need to understand the objective of their decision making.
• The maximisation of the market value of a company’s shares is the overriding objective.
• We are able to rationalise theories and important results in finance by appealing to this ultimate objective of financial decision-makers.
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Basic Concepts of Finance
• Value:– The value of a company (V) on the financial markets
may be expressed as:
– Financial markets will value debt and equity, taking into account the risk and expected return from investing in these securities.
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equity of valuethe
debt of valuethe where
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Basic Concepts of Finance (cont.)• Time and uncertainty:
– The value of an investment will depend on the amount and timing of the cash flows generated by the investment.
– Time value of money: A dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future.
• Risk aversion:
– Investors prefer lower risk rather than higher risk for a given return.
– Investors invest in risky investment as long as return on the investment is high enough to compensate investors for bearing risk.
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Basic Concepts of Finance (cont.)
• Nominal and real rates:
– The cost of an asset expressed as the number of dollars paid to acquire the asset is the nominal price.
– However, the purchasing power of money changes because of inflation and deflation.
– Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish between the nominal or face value of money and the real or inflation-adjusted value of money.
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Basic Concepts of Finance (cont.)
• Market efficiency and asset pricing:
– Market efficiency means that we should expect securities and other assets to be fairly priced, given their expected risks and returns.
– Trade-off between risk and expected return under the capital asset pricing model (CAPM):
Systematic risk — market-wide factors (non-diversifiable or market risk).
Unsystematic risk — factors that are specific to a particular company (diversifiable or unique risk).
– According to the CAPM, investors can diversify their investments to eliminate unsystematic risk.
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Basic Concepts of Finance (cont.)• Derivative instruments:
– The value of derivative securities depends on the value of some underlying security. Examples of derivative securities are: forward, futures, swaps and options.
• Arbitrage:– If two identical assets were to trade in the same market
at the same time at different prices, and if there were no transaction costs, then an arbitrage opportunity would exist.
– A risk-free profit could be made by simultaneously purchasing at the lower price and selling at the higher price.
– However, competition among traders will force the two alternative prices to become the same.
– Arbitrage precludes perfect substitutes from selling at different prices in the same market.
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Basic Concepts of Finance (cont.)• Agency relationships:
– Where one party — the principal — delegates the decision-making authority to another party — the agent.
– In a company setting:
The agents are usually managers.
The principals are usually shareholders.
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Basic Concepts of Finance (cont.)
• Agency relationships (cont.):
– Agency costs reflect the fact that there is a conflict of interest between the principal and agent.
– Reduced value due to managers acting in their own best interests rather than in the interests of shareholders.
– Costs associated with monitoring managers’ behaviour to ensure their actions are consistent with shareholders’ interests.
– Bonding costs: Costs of incentive and remuneration schemes that align the interests of managers with those of shareholders.
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Summary• Business entities include sole proprietorships,
partnerships and companies. We focus on public companies.
• We study corporate finance, along with investments (risk and return trade-off) and the structure of financial markets and institutions.
• We consider broad finance issues such as company valuations, market efficiency, risk aversion, asset pricing, derivative instrument and arbitrage, along with agency issues.