Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Business - Finance
- Break Even
- KEY TERM: When the total revenue
is the same as the total fixed costs
and there is no gain or loss in profits
- Calculations
- Variable Costs = number of units x price per unit
- Fixed costs remain the same
- Total Costs = Variable + Fixed
- Revenue = selling price x Quantity Sold
- Margin of Safey
- The difference between the break-even output and the expected output
- Terms
- Share Capital - Capital raised by
selling shares on the stock market or
privatly
- Factoring - A service offered by a
financial institution to pay an invoice
which has not yet been paid
- They provide a cash
advance of around 80%
- Mortgage - A commercial loan which help to
purchase buildings or land.
- Can have fixed or variable interest rates
and are usually taken out on a long term
- Debentures - A long term loan that
has to be paid back by a specific time
and is an alternative to shares
- Have fixed interest rates
- Government - Will provide business
start-up schemes, when a business
wants to set up to provide a service
to an underdeveloped area
- EXAMPLE: Bringing employment to
an area with high unemployment
- Loan Capital - Money that is provided
by borrowing from outside the
business in terms of a loan
- Ordinary Shares - A share
which provides a fixed rate of
return when a dividends is
made
- All share holders are
entitled to the dividend
- Trade Credit - An offer made to a
company where they have between
30 and 90 days to pay for the goods
or services that they have recieved
- Working Capital - The money that is used in the
day to day running of the business can be gained by
selling stock that hasn't been used
- Business Costs
- Direct Costs
- The costs which are directly
used in the making of the
items
- Examples
- Machinery
- Management Costs
- Office Rent
- Indirect Costs
- The costs that get the
item to the customer
- Examples
- Raw Materials
- Telephone Costs
- Factory Labour
- Marginal Costs
- This allows the company to find
out how much it will cost them to
make one more product
- Average Costs
- This is how much it will
cost to make each product
- Fixed Costs
- These are costs that
do not change
dependant on the
output of products
- Usually
states as paid
per month or
annum
- Examples
- Rent
- Management Costs
- Variable Costs
- These costs are
dependant on the
output of products
- Usually stated as a
price that is paid per
object used
- Examples
- Employee Wages
- Materials
- Total Costs
- These costs are the fixed
and variable costs added
together
- Forecast
- This is when a company tries to
predict what could happen in the
future
- Businesses use previous data in
order to forecast their financial
year
- A business would need to
forecast their income as well as
their expenditure
- It is
important that
a business
knows if they
will have too
much or too
little money
- Sales Revenue
- Sales Revenue = Quantity Sold x Selling Price
- Increasing Sales Revenue
- Raising Sale Price
- Reducing The Sales Price
- Increasing the Amount Sold
- Sources
- Internal
- Retained Profits
- Most companies only
allocate part of their profits
to their share holder so can
use the profits that were not
shared as a source of
finance
- Collecting owed finances from customer etc.
- External
Anlagen:
- Owner's Capital
- Venture Capital
- Borrowing
- Bank Loans
- Debentures
- Bank Overdrafts
- Hire Purchase
- Leasing
- Morgages
- Morgages
- Supliers
- Factoring
- Government Loans