Finance is such a powerful medium that, it performs an important role to operate, co-ordinate and control the various economic activities of the business enterprise.
Finance is essential for expansion, diversification, modernization, as well as for establishment of new projects.
Entrepreneurs are known to be the innovators, they are creative and with their entrepreneurial mindset, innovate products which create value to the end consumers.
The core value proposition of entrepreneurship is to analyse a given market and try to fill up the gaps by introducing products which help consumers to solve their day to day problems.
Entrepreneurship is a full time job which requires dedication, consistency, hard work, self motivation, willingness to go to great lengths in order to achieve the set benchmarks.
Entrepreneurs are known to be the innovators, they are creative and with their entrepreneurial mindset, innovate products which create value to the end consumers.
Entrepreneurship Development is a systematic program designed to help a person in strengthening his or her entrepreneurial motive and in acquiring skills and capabilities necessary for playing his or her entrepreneurial role efficiently with a top level approach.
It is defined as ‘a programme designed to help a person in strengthening his/ her entrepreneurial motive and in acquiring skills and capabilities necessary for executing the entrepreneurial role efficiently.’
The financial manager is a person who is a professional/expert in the field of finance and looks after the fiscal affairs and financial health of the business organisation.
He/she is responsible for the various financial transactions, decisions, deployment of cash, return on investment (ROI), cash inflows and outflows.
Goodwill plays an important role in strengthening the fundamentals and overall image of the business organisation, it is an intangible asset but not a fictitious asset which means that it has some realisable value.
Capital rationing is a situation, whereby, the funds available for completing a project are limited.
It is a situation where a constraint or budget ceiling is put in place on to the total size of capital expenditure under the assumption that the availability of financial resources is quite limited.
It is a financial strategy used by companies or financial institutions or investors to limit the number of projects to be taken up at a time. If there is a pool of available investments which are expected to be profitable, the strategy of capital rationing provides the investors with the most profitable one to choose from.
The abbreviation SIP stands for Systematic Investment Plan, this is a type of investment which helps the investors save and grow the investors’ money over a period of time. SIP helps investors to invest small amounts of money on the regular basis instead of investing a large sum of money all at once. SIP primarily gives the benefit of the term Rupee Cost Averaging. SIP works on the foundation of this approach of Rupee Cost Averaging. Investing in SIP provides with the benefit of averaging out the costs of the investments without having to worry about the market conditions.
Debt mutual funds are those funds which primarily invest in debt instruments such as bonds, debentures, certificates of deposits, etc.
This is a category of mutual fund that primarily invest in fixed-income securities, such as corporate and government bonds, treasury bills, and money market instruments. They are also known as income funds or bond funds. Investment in debt mutual funds is ideal for investors who are not willing to take up major risks but want safety of capital along with a stable return on their investment.
An equity fund is a mutual fund scheme that invests primarily its major proportion in equity stocks.
Equity mutual funds as the name suggests, have a major investment in the equity related instruments. The investment in equity mutual funds is risky as the value of investments can fluctuate as per the prevalent market conditions.
Mutual fund refers to a large pool of money invested in proportions, in the stock exchange by sound professional expert known as the finance manager.
Mutual funds are ideal for investors who either lack large sums for investment, or for those who do not have the time to research the market, yet want to grow their wealth. The money collected in mutual funds is invested by professional fund managers according to the scheme’s stated objective.