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Financial Management
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11
Finance
Undergraduate 4
04/09/2015

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Term
Agricultural Finance
Definition

- the economic study of the aquistion and use of capital in agriculture

 

Term
Types of Capital
Definition

- Equity

- Borrowed

Term
Goal Identification
Definition

- to evaluate performance, need to have identified goals/objectives associated with that performane.

- Goal ID leads to development of measuse of goal attainment, targets for these measures and analytical procedures for the relating plans and expectations to the measures and targets.

Term
Managerial Goals
Definition

Profitability

Growth

Term
Profitability
Definition

- goal to maximize profits

-generally short term

- in macro: this is where MVP = MIC for all inputs and all enterprises

Term
Growth
Definition

- generally long term

- short term profits may need to be traded for long term growth

- to account for trade off, use the concept of present value where future profits are discounted for time

Term
Risk
Definition

- can change the level of resouce allocation depending on the level of risk aversion

 

Term
Risk Aversion
Definition
- individuals must be compensated for risk taking
Term
Risk/Return Trade Off
Definition
- as the level of risk increases, the expected return will increase
Term
Risk Premium
Definition
- the required compensatio over the risk free rate of return
Term
Risk Dominance
Definition
- a risk averse individual will choose investments that give the same expected return with a lower level of risk
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