Contents: Tracing Cash and Net Working Capital, The Operating Cycle and the Cash Cycle, Some Aspects of Short-Term Financial Policy, The Cash Budget, A Short-Term Financial Plan. | Short-Term Finance and Planning Chapter 18 Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill/Irwin Notes to the Instructor: The PowerPoints are designed for an introductory finance class for undergraduates with the emphasis on the key points of each chapter Each chapter’s PowerPoint is designed for active learning by the students in your classroom Not everything in the book’s chapter is necessarily duplicated on the PowerPoint slides There are two finance calculators used (when relevant). You can delete the slides if you don’t use both TI and HP business calculators Animation is used extensively. You can speed up, slow down or eliminate the animation at your discretion. To do so just open a chapter PowerPoint and go to any slide you want to modify; click on “Animations” on the top of your PowerPoint screen tools; then click on “Custom Animations”. A set of options will appear on the right of your screen. You can “change” or “remove” any line of that | Short-Term Finance and Planning Chapter 18 Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. McGraw-Hill/Irwin Notes to the Instructor: The PowerPoints are designed for an introductory finance class for undergraduates with the emphasis on the key points of each chapter Each chapter’s PowerPoint is designed for active learning by the students in your classroom Not everything in the book’s chapter is necessarily duplicated on the PowerPoint slides There are two finance calculators used (when relevant). You can delete the slides if you don’t use both TI and HP business calculators Animation is used extensively. You can speed up, slow down or eliminate the animation at your discretion. To do so just open a chapter PowerPoint and go to any slide you want to modify; click on “Animations” on the top of your PowerPoint screen tools; then click on “Custom Animations”. A set of options will appear on the right of your screen. You can “change” or “remove” any line of that particular slide using the icon on the top of the page. The speed is one of the three options on every animation under “timing”. Effort has been made to maintain the basic “7x7” rule of good PowerPoint presentations. Additional problems and/or examples are available on McGraw-Hill’s Connect. 1 Chapter Outline Tracing Cash and Net Working Capital The Operating Cycle and the Cash Cycle Some Aspects of Short-Term Financial Policy The Cash Budget A Short-Term Financial Plan Lecture Tip: For some reason, many students (and some faculty) view short-term finance generally, and working capital management specifically, as less important than capital budgeting or the risk-return relationship. You may find it useful to emphasize the importance of short-term finance in introducing the current chapter. First, discussions with CFOs quickly lead to the conclusion that, as important as capital budgeting and capital structure decisions are, they are made less frequently, while the day-to-day .
