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Set up Funds & Tags 120

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In this presentation, we’re gonna set up and customize our funds and tax features within our accounting software. Get ready, because here we go with aplos. Here we are in our not for profit organization dashboard, we’re gonna go into our chart of accounts over here. Now, we’re going to go into the fund accounting tabs and the fund accounting tab up top, then you’ll see another bar here with our drop downs, we want to go to the accounting drop down on the far left hand side, we’re going to first go to that first item, which is going to be the accounting tab, we’re going to be going into the accounting tab. And then right up top, we have our funds features.

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Aplos – Set Up Free Trial 105

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In this presentation, we’re going to take a look at the setup process for the free trial of aplos. aplos is an accounting software that’s designed specifically for not for profit organizations they typically have and at this time do have a free trial component for it, which is a great tool to get used to the software and go through a practice problem as we will do here. Get ready, because here we go with aplos.

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Patterns of Financing 610

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will discuss patterns of financing, get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance patterns of financing. As we think of financing patterns, let’s first think of our accounting equation assets equal liabilities plus equity assets are what the company has, we have those assets in order to help us to generate the revenue, we need to finance those assets, either with liabilities or equity, equity being the retaining of earnings over time, the earnings that have not been paid out in dividend and or investments that have been put into the company for the distribution of stocks.

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The Nature of Asset Growth 605

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will discuss the nature of asset growth, get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance, the nature of asset growth, we’re going to start off with working capital management, what is working capital management, the financing and management of current assets of the company. So when we consider this, let’s think about the accounting equation assets equal liabilities plus equity, remember that the assets are what the company has, why does the company have them in order to help generate revenue to get a return on the assets in order to help generate revenue?

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Combined Leverage 525

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will discuss combined leverage, get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance, combined leverage. Remember when we’re thinking about the term leverage, there’s typically two types of leverage that come into our minds. One is going to be the financial leverage the others the operating leverage the financial leverage, probably the one that pops into most people’s mind, if they’re familiar with leverage that being related to the debt in the organization and the risk and reward related to different levels of debt depending on the circumstances. And then we have the operating leverage, which has to do with the mix between the variable costs and the costs and the in the fixed costs.

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Financial Leverage 520

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will discuss financial leverage, get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance, financial leverage. Now remember, when you hear the term leverage, you’re typically thinking of two different categories, that being financial leverage. And then the operating leverage the financial leverage, usually the one that most people think of when they think of leverage having to do with the leverage related to the debt, the operating leverage having to do with their leverage related to the cost structure between the variable cost and the fixed cost, the operating leverage having the leverage component when you have the in the fixed costs.

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Degree of Operating Leverage 515

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will discuss the degree of operating leverage, get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance, degree of operating leverage. Now remember, when you hear this term leverage, there’s two things that pop into your mind that generally categories of leverage. The first one is probably related to debt debt leverage or financial leverage. And the other related to the cost structure, the one that we’re going to be focusing in on here, the structure between variable costs and fixed costs. So what’s going to be the structure of the variable cost fixed costs, that’s kind of what we’re measuring here, with the degree of operating leverage the fixed costs being the thing that’s going to have more leverage related to it.

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Break Even Analysis 510

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will discuss breakeven analysis, get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance. Break Even analysis includes our fundamental tools for making projections and predictions into the future. Now note, when we think about breakeven analysis, the fundamental calculation within a breakeven analysis will be the break even point. But when we hear breakeven analysis in general, you can think of it that as a more broad kind of perspective, to use some of these tools in order to think about projections into the future. So when you hear breakeven analysis, you’re typically thinking kind of projections, budgeting, future based analysis, as opposed to some financial accounting, which is typically going to be based on the past prior performance.

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Leverage Overview 505

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, we will give an overview and an introduction to the concept of leverage. Get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance, leverage what is leverage use of special forces or effects to magnify outcomes given certain conditions. Let’s break that down a little bit more detail use of Special Forces sounds kind of mystical here. But there’s a couple different things that we think about with leverage. And we typically break it down into operating leverage and financial leverage. Most people when they think about leverage, they’re thinking about debt, they’re thinking about the leverage related to the debt will also have leverage related to operating leverage, which has to do with the mix between fixed costs and variable costs. So on so we have these special forces or effects have magnify outcomes. So that could magnify outcomes.

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Percent of Sales Method 425

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Corporate Finance PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation we will discuss the percent of sales method, the percent of sales method been a tool that can help us with our projections out into the future help us to think about where we will stand, think about what our balance sheet accounts will be in the future. If we, if we estimate some type of growth into the future also help us to determine whether or not we may need additional funding to support our growth plans that we have set in place. Get ready, it’s time to take your chance with corporate finance percent of sales method. Now this method can be a little bit confusing when you first look at it in the calculation or formula for it can be a little bit intimidating as well, I highly recommend to get a better understanding of this formula and how to apply it to go through the practice problems, we will have practice problems related to this formula in terms of Excel problems, as well as working through the practice problems and presentations in one note.

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