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BUSN 5200 Homework Assignment Week 1 For week 1, please turn in your answers to the following questions: Fill in the blank: 1. What term is generally associated with figuring out how much money you have? _ Accounting _____ 2. What term is generally associated with deciding what to do with the money you have? __ Finance ___________ 3. ____ Ethics _________ is the study of values, morals and morality. 4. ___ Auditors _________ examine the firm’s accounting systems and comment on whether financial statements fairly represent the firm’s financial position. 5. A person or organization that has a legitimate interest in a corporation is known as a _____ stakeholder ____________. 6. In a simplified organization, the accounting function (Controller) and treasury function (Treasurer) typically report to the ______ Vice President of Finance (CFO )__________. 7. _ LLC ____ are often described as a combination of a partnership and corporation. 8. The word __ Non-Profit Organization _____ refers to a type of business that is organized under rules that forbid distribution of profits to owners. 9. The ____ corporation ______________ determines how much the stock is worth. 10. The basic financial goal of a business is to _____ maximize the wealth of the owners ________. 11. ______ Financial Planning _______________is the act/process/study of managing money in such a way that you get and keep more of it and lose less of it. 12. The ____ Treasurer’s Office ___________ is responsible for managing the firm’s cash and credit, its financial planning, and its capital expenditures. 13. The process of monitoring managers and aligning their incentives with shareholder goals is known as ____ Corporate Governance ______________. 14. What are the three forms of business generally encountered in the US? What are the main defining characteristics of each? a. Sole Proprietorship: One person owns everything. b. Partnership: Two or more people own everything.
c. Corporation: Owners may be one or more people who all own shares of the business. Unlike the two above, these owners cannot be personally liable for the corporation's debts. 15. The Internet company Google managed to avoid $2 billion in international income taxes in 2011 by moving a hefty sum of its revenues to subsidiaries in Bermuda, according to CNBC, which cited a report by Bloomberg. 1 The search giant reportedly stashed $9.8 billion in revenues to its shell company in Bermuda — which doesn't have a corporate income tax — last year allowing the company to shave its overall tax rate by almost 50 percent. Google's Bermuda move was disclosed in a Nov. 21 filing by a subsidiary in the Netherlands. While the company's move to shift funds to the country was legal, it could spur the growing global criticism of corporate tax avoidance. What do you think? Is Google’s action ethical? Why or why not? While Google’s move was technically legal, I believe it was one that lives in the gray zone. Google clearly moved billions of dollars to a shell company in Bermuda, which is known not to have any corporate income tax laws. This move prevented the monstrous company from paying taxes on its yearly revenues. The United States lost billions of dollars in tax money that could have been used to fund other projects in the US. While legal, it is definitely taking advantage of a situation by bending the rules. 16. How would you state the basic goal of a non-profit firm? The goal of a non-profit organization is to pursue its objectives rather than maximize profits since they can not be distributed to the owners. Non-profit organizations focus on their goals by following legal and ethical guidelines. 17. What are the typical functions of the board of directors? The board of directors is inside the firm and monitors how the firm is run. They oversee the management and are elected by stockholders. The board of directors hires the CEO, evaluates management, and designs compensation contracts to tie management’s salaries to the firm's performance. 18. The lecture identifies 3 broad factors that impact the price of the stock. What are the 3 factors? a. Expeected EPs b. Timing of Cash Flows c. Risk 19. Explain and provide an example of how a company can generate lots of profits, but still go out of business because they don’t have any cash. This situation arises when a company’s profits are not equal to or greater than the cash flow. An example would be a clothing store that generated $100,000 in sales for the month, however, it has incurred $150,000 in expenses. The cost to run the store is more than its making in sales. 1
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