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Company management is responsible for establishing a capital structure for the corporation that makes optimal use of financial leverage and holds the cost of capital as low as possible. [1] [2] Capital structure is an important issue in setting rates charged to customers by regulated utilities in the United States. The utility company has the ...
Capital management can broadly be divided into two classes: Working capital management regards the management of assets that are of capital value to the firm or business entity itself. Investment management on the other hand concerns assets that are alternative sources of revenue and normally exist outside of the main revenue model(s) of ...
Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g. retail, corporate, investment banking).
Capital budgeting in corporate finance, corporate planning and accounting is an area of capital management that concerns the planning process used to determine whether an organization's long term capital investments such as new machinery, replacement of machinery, new plants, new products, and research development projects are worth the funding of cash through the firm's capitalization ...
Private companies typically have a much simpler capital structure and more limited stakeholder accounting requirements. In the earliest stages of their development, private companies may track their shareholders in a simple document or spreadsheet.
Organizational capital is one of the three components of structural capital, itself a component of intellectual capital. [2] But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to measure it, or how to best quantify its contribution to output (either current or future).
Working capital (WC) is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business, organisation, or other entity, including governmental entities. Along with fixed assets such as plant and equipment, working capital is considered a part of operating capital. Gross working capital is equal to current assets.
Liquid capital or fluid capital is the part of a firm's assets that it holds as money. [1] It includes cash balances, bank deposits, and money market investments.