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Why is financial management essential to the success of a company? What can potentially happen if the cash flow is not properly managed? I have attached the required reading and lectures.

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The 5 Worst Cash-Flow Mistakes Small-Business Owners Make No matter how great your business model is, how profitable you are, or how many investors are interested in supporting your business, you can't survive if you can't manage your company's cash flow. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/249020 5 Finance Tips All Business Owners Should Follow Finances are a necessary part of running a small business. To get some insight on effective procedures that entrepreneurs can adopt to improve their own accounting practices, Single Grain CEO/Growth Everywhere founder Eric Siu sat down for a quick chat with LessAccounting founder Allan Branch. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/250812 Fundamentals of Business Financial Management In addition to monitoring cash flows, finance management also involves ensuring the financial health of the business on a continuing basis. http://web.archive.org/web/20130218085951/http://suite101.com/article/business-financial- management-fundamentals-a92650 How to Better Manage Your Cash Flow Cash is king when it comes to the financial management of a growing company. The lag between the time you have to pay your suppliers and employees and the time you collect from your customers is the problem, and the solution is cash flow management. At its simplest, cash flow management means delaying outlays of cash as long as possible while encouraging anyone who owes you money to pay it as rapidly as possible. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/66008 Financial Planning and Management During this lecture, we will discuss how proper financial planning and management allows businesses to accomplish short and long term goals. As we begin this lecture it is important for you to understand that financial planning and management are essential activities for an organization of any size to operate effectively. I think it would be helpful to begin by defining what financial planning and financial management is. Financial planning is simply planning for the future of a business to ensure there will be positive cash flow in the years to come. Financial management is a business monitoring its cash flow to ensure the continuation of the business's operations is as effective and efficient as possible. Let's dive right in and discuss the importance of financial planning and management. Without appropriate financial planning and management, even the most successful business can lose its way. Let me give you an analogy... Let's say that you and your family are planning a road trip vacation to a place you have never visited before. Before you leave you quickly check to make sure you have everything you need to get you and your family to your destination. As you begin the journey you are in familiar surroundings and are comfortable so things are going great. However, halfway there you realize that you did not plan properly for the trip by making sure you had everything you needed as for you did not bring a map and you and your wife both left your wallets at home. At this point you are just driving aimlessly having no idea which direction you should go in to reach your goal with no money to help you get there. The same is true for businesses that do not properly financially plan and manage their money for the future as for they are just traveling aimlessly without a destination because they did not plan to bring a map (plan) or wallets (sufficient funding), make sense? I'd like to shift gears and now discuss the importance of financial management. I'd like to shift gears and now discuss the importance of financial management. A business's priority when creating a financial plan should be accurate cash management. When a business correctly forecasts the cash they have available, they will be better able to identify times when extra cash could be available to be invested to receive a higher rate of return on their investment. Accurate cash management will also help the business see if there could be the potential for a cash shortage during any particular time of the year. By seeing this ahead of time, management will have time to secure additional financing if necessary to get them through the rough patch. The bottom-line is that financial planning gives managers a better way to make better decisions for the business and do their job better by seeing the long- term cash requirements. Another important element of financial management is correctly budgeting and forecasting for the future. In order for a business to properly plan for the future, it has got to have a budget so they know how much money they have to work with. Financial Planning Please complete the following assignment, incorporating ideas and concepts from the week's lecture and/or articles. Please feel free to incorporate outside resources as well. When completing your assignment, please make sure to double space your paper. Traditional Paper Research, identify, and discuss what financial planning for a business is, why it is important, and what can happen if not done accurately. The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded: • Write between 500 – 750 words (approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word. • Attempt APA style, see example below. • Use font size 12 and 1" margins. • Include cover page and reference page. • At least 60% of your paper must be original content/writing. • No more than 40% of your content/information may come from references. • Use at least two references from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the two reference requirement. Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the paper and listed on a reference page. Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.
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Financial management for the company success
Financial management is one of the key areas of responsibilities of business owners and
managers (Eiteman et al., 2017). It enables them to put into consideration the potential consequences of
their operation decisions on cash flow, profits and the financial condition of the business. All activities
of a business often impact an organization’s financial performance and should therefore be controlled
and evaluated by the business management. Financial management enables a company to correctly
forecast on the cash flow to identify whether there is extra cash that can be used for further investment
in order to gain higher rates of returns. It also helps a business to accurately predict potential cash
deficits at any given time of the year. This can enable the business to employ contingency measures in
securing the required financing in time without interfering with the operations of the business.
Financial management helps in guiding the decision making process by the management by
enabling them to consider the long-term organizational requirements against short term financial need. It
aids in proper and accurate business budgeting and future forecasting. Empirical studies have shown that
proper financial planning and management often makes the management job easier since it prepares
them in advance for the future business difficulties (Eiteman et al., 2017). As such, the management will
be able to plan for the business operations in line with the foreseen constraints. Proper business financial
planning and management involves the adoption of a budget which acts as a guide on the amount of
money that has to be availed for the business operations. This will help the bus...


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