strengths and weaknesses

Given the financial management scenario, evaluate the responsibilities of a financial manager and how he/she ensures that the firm is meeting its financial management goals.

 

Given a company’s financial statements and sales forecast, develop a monthly cash budget for at least one year and pro forma financial statements for five years. Utilizing financial ratios and other analytical techniques, evaluate the company’s strengths and weaknesses and its long-term financial requirements.

 

Do some research and find some historical or current real life examples of agency problems. Will the measures discussed in the text help to prevent problems like your examples in the future? What else would you advise? You may provide examples of agency problems from your own experience. If you do that, be careful to provide enough anonymity that you won’t get in trouble.

 

Does the financial manager have a greater responsibility or a lesser responsibility for maintaining ethical corporate governance? Why or why not? What is or will be your approach to ethical corporate governance now or in the future?