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Start-up capital

capital needed by an entrepreneur to set up a business

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Working capital

the capital needed to pay for raw materials, day-to-day running costs and credit offered to customers. In accounting terms: working capital = current assets - current liabilities

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Internal finance

raised from the business's own assets or from profits left in the business (ploughed-back or retained profit)

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External finance

raised from sources outside the business

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Retained profit

the profit left after all deductions, including dividends, have been made. This is 'ploughed back' into the company as a source of finance

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Liquidity

the ability of a firm to pay its short-term debts

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Overdraft

bank agrees to a business borrowing up to an agreed limit as and when required

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Debt-factoring

selling of claims over debtors to a debt factor in exchange for immediate liquidity - only a proportion of the value of the debts will be received as cash

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Hire-purchase

an asset is sold to a company that agrees to pay fixed repayments over an agreed time period - the asset belongs to the company

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Leasing

obtaining the use of equipment or vehicles and paying a rental or leasing charge over a fixed period. this avoids the need for the business to raise long-term capital to buy the asset. Ownership remains with the leasing company.

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Equity finance

permanent finance raised by companies through the sale of shares

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Long-term loans

loans that do not have to be repaid for at least one year

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Debentures or long-term bonds

bonds issued by companies to raise debt finance, often with a fixed rate of interest

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Rights issue

existing shareholders are given the right to buy additional shares at a discounted price

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Venture capital

risk capital invested in business start-ups or expanding small businesses that have good profit potential but do not find it easy to gain finance from other sources

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Business angels

individual investors who put in their own money in a variety of businesses and are seeking a better return than they would obtain from conventional investments

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Subsidies

financial benefits given by the government to a business to reduce costs and encourage increased production

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Microfinance

the provision of very small loans by specialist finance businesses, usually not traditional commercial banks

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Direct cost

these costs can be clearly identified with each unit of production and can be allocated to a cost centre

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Indirect cost

costs which cannot be identified with a unit of production or allocated accurately to a cost centre- also known as overhead costs

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Fixed costs

costs that do not vary with output in the short run

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Variable costs

costs that very with output

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Semi-variable costs

costs that have both fixed and a variable cost element

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Revenue

income received from the sale of a product

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Total revenue

total income from the sale of all units of the product = quanitityxprice

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Revenue stream

the income that an organisation gets from a particular activity

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Break-even

the level of output at which total costs equal total revenue

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Margin of safety

the amount by which the sales level exceeds the break-even level of output

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Contribution per unit

selling price of a product minus direct costs per unit

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Total contribution

unit contribution x output

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Break-even revenue

the amount of revenue needed to cover both fixed and variable costs so that the business breaks even

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Window dressing

Presenting the accounts of a business in the best possible, or most flattering, way which could potentially mislead users of accounts

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Depreciation

The decline in the estimated value of a fixed asset over time

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Assets

Items of monetary value that are owned by a business

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Profit and loss account

Records the revenue, costs and profit/loss of a business over a given period of time

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Liabilities

A financial obligation of a business that it is required to pay in the future

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Gross profit

Equal to sales revenue less cost of sales

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Sales revenue/total sales turnover

The total value of sales made during the trading period

Selling price x quantity sold

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Cost of sales

The direct cost of purchasing the goods that were sold during the financial year

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Operating profit (net profit/profit before interest and tax)

Gross profit-overhead expenses

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Profit after tax

Operating profit-interest costs and corporation tax

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Dividends

The share of the profits paid to shareholders as a return for investing in the company

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Retained profit

the profit left after all deductions have been made, ploughed back into the company as a source of finance

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Low-quality profit

One-off profit that cannot easily be repeated or sustained

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High-quality profit

Profit that can't be repeated and sustained

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Balance sheet

An accounting statement that records the values of a business's assets, liabilities and shareholder's equity at one point in time

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Shareholders' equity

Total value of assets-total value of liabilities

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Share capital

The total value of capital raised form shareholders by the issue of shares

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Debtors

Customers who have nought products on credit and will pay cash at an agreed date in the future

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Current liabilities

Debts of the business that will usually have to be paid within one year

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Goodwill

Arises when a business is values at or sold for more than the balance sheet values of its assets

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Intellectual property

An intangible asset that has been developed from human ideas and knowledge

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Market value

The estimated total value of a company if it were taken over

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Straight-line depreciation

A constant amount of depreciation is subtracted from the value of the asset each year

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Reducing balance method

Calculated depreciation by subtracting a fixed percentage from the pervious year's net book value

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Net book value

The current balance sheet value of a non-current asset

Original cost-accumulated depreciation

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Liquidity

The ability of a firm to pay its short-term debts

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Gross profit margin %

Gross profit/sales revenue x 100

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Net profit margin %

Net profit/sales revenue x 100

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Return on capital employed %

Net profit / capital employed x 100

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Capital employed

The total value of all long-term finance invested in the business

(non-current assets + current assets) - current liabilities

non-current liabilities + shareholders equity

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Current ratio

current assets/current liabilities

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Acid test ratio

liquid assets/current liabilities

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Liquid assets

current assets - inventories

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Inventory (stock) turnover ratio

cost of goods sold / inventory level

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Debtor days ratio

debtors (accounts receivable) x 365/revenue

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Creditor days ratio

trade creditors/credit purchases x 365

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Liquidation

when a firm ceases trading and its assets are sold for cash

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Insolvent

when a business cannot meet its short-term debts

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Net cash flows

the sum of cash payments to a business (inflows) less the sum of cash payments made by it (outflows)

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Cash outflows

payments in cash made by a business, such as those to suppliers and workers

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Cash inflows

Payments in cash received by a business, such as those from customers (debtors) or from the bank; e.g. receiving a loan

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Currents liabilities

debts of the business that must be paid within the next accounting period

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Debtors

customers who have bought products on credit and will pay cash at an agreed date in the future

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Working capital cycle

the period of time between spending cash on the production process and receiving cash payments from customers

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Cash flow forecast

estimate of a firm's future cash inflows and outflows

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Net monthly cash flow

estimated difference between monthly cash inflows and outflows

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Opening cash balance

cash held at the end of the month becomes next month's opening balance

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Closing cash balance

cash held at the end of the month becomes next month's opening balance

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Credit control

monitoring of debts to ensure that credit periods are not exceeded

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Bad debt

unpaid customers' bills that are now very unlikely to ever be paid

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Overtrading

expanding a business rapidly without obtaining all of the necessary finance so that a cash-flow shortage develops

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Investment appraisal

Evaluating the profitability or desirability of an investment project

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Annual forecasted net cash flow

Forecasted cash inflow minus forecasted cash outflows

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Payback period

Length of time it takes for the net cash inflows to pay back the original capital cost of investment

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Average rate of return

Measured the profitability of an investment as a percentage of the initial investment

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Criterion rate or level

The minimum level (maximum for payback period) set by management for investment appraisal results for a project to be accepted

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Net present value

Today's value of the estimated cash flows resulting from an investment

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Budget

A detailed financial plan for the future

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Budget holder

individual responsible for the initial setting and achievement of budget

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Delegated budget

Control over budget is given to less senior management

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Incremental budgeting

Uses last year's budget as a basis and an adjustment is made for the coming year

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Zero budgeting

Setting budgets to zero each year and budget holders have to argue their case to receive any finance

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Cost centre

a section of a business, such as a department, to which costs can be allocated or charged

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Profit centre

A section of a business to which both costs and revenues can be allocated

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Variance analysis

The process of investigating any differences between budgeted figures and actual figures

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Favourable variance

Exists when the difference between the budgeted and actual figure leads to a higher than expected profit.

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Adverse variance

Exists when the difference between the budgeted and actual figure leads to a lower than expected profit

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