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financial management

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Queen Mary, University Of London (QMUL)

Financial management is all about monitoring, controlling, protecting, and reporting on a company's financial resources. Companies have accountants or finance teams responsible for managing their finances, including all bank transactions, loans, debts, investments, and other sources of funding.

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Financial management

When most people think of ﬁnancial management,
they often think of managing their own bank
accounts: paying the rent or mortgage, paying utility
bills, buying groceries, maybe even planning a
monthly budget. But ﬁnancial management for
business is a much more complex pursuit. It involves
controlling and tracking all the money ﬂowing in and
out of the business, as well as taking steps to make the
company as proﬁtable and ﬁnancially secure as
possible.

To get a clearer picture, let’s break down some of the
key goals and functions of ﬁnancial management.

What is Financial Management?
Financial management is about controlling the ﬂow
of money in and out of the organization. Every
business needs to sell products or services, pay
expenses, balance the books, and ﬁle taxes. Financial
management encompasses all of this, along with
more complex processes, such as paying employees,
buying supplies, and submitting reports to
government agencies to show they’re obeying
applicable laws and regulations. The act of overseeing

, all these transactions for a business is what we mean
when we talk about a company’s ﬁnancial
management. In general, the bigger the company, the
more complicated ﬁnancial management becomes.

Employees who specialize in ﬁnancial management
are responsible for all the money going into and out
of the company. Smaller companies will have at least
one accountant or bookkeeper who works with the
bank to execute these transactions and track the ﬂow
of money. Large companies will often have entire
ﬁnance teams led by a chief ﬁnancial oﬃcer (CFO),
controller, head of ﬁnance, or someone with a similar
title.

The ﬁnance team’s primary job is to make sure the
company stays solvent and never runs out of cash—
but it’s not their only job. They’re also responsible for
handling loans and debts, balancing the books,
overseeing investments, raising venture capital, and
managing public offerings (i.e. selling company stock
on the open market). Basically, the ﬁnance team
protects a company’s ﬁnancial resources, monitors
and controls all transactions, and takes steps to make
the company as proﬁtable as possible.

Key Takeaways

Financial management is all about monitoring,
controlling, protecting, and reporting on a company’s
ﬁnancial resources.
Companies have accountants or ﬁnance teams
responsible for managing their ﬁnances, including all

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