Fundamentals in Finance

As the name accounting goes, it means the process of maintaining financial accounts. Basic accounting, therefore, consists of all the accounting and finance related terms. It consists of the credit and the debit of the accounts, the revenue, asset, liability, equity, expenses, etc. It is a kind of accounting system, that helps to look after the checking, balancing and reconciling all the accounting related transactions. After compiling all the transactions, you will have useful documents like the balance sheet, cash flow statements, etc.

Fundamentals In Finance

The fundamentals of finance include basic qualitative and quantitative information that helps one to grant financial and economic progress of the company. Analysts and the investors examine the fundamentals to ensure and reach to a conclusion whether the assets are valuable and significant in the investment. In business, profitability, revenue, assets, liabilities, etc are the fundamentals.

What is Business Valuation?

Business valuation is the process of estimating the entire value of a business or a company unit. To know the sales value, about the establishment of partner ownership, taxation, etc. This process is used by the participants of the financial market to know the price that they are willing to pay or receive for making an effect on the sale of the business.

What Are The 5 Methods Of Valuation?

• Comparison Method

  Under the comparison method the most common properties like the houses, shops, warehouses or big buildings of offices, etc. Preferably the market should be stable and there should be multiple comparable properties. Comparable properties are the one that possesses the same location

• Profits Method

  The Profits Method is applied when there is no comparable rental or sale transaction. It is often used for a monopolistic business property like hotels, pubs, nursing homes, etc. This method is useful in estimating the gross profits of a business.

• Residual Method

  The residual method is the one that can be used to value the assets that have the potential of development. It can be an asset that is

• Contractor’s Method

  The contractor’s method can be used when the other methods like the comparative or the profit’s method can’t be used.

• Investment Method

Three Golden Rules of Accounting

•  Receiver: Debit Giver: Credit

  This happens in the case of personal accounts. If a person gives something to an organization that will be considered as inflow and will be a credit to the person’s account. The same happens in the case of debits too.

• Debit Comes Credit Goes

  This concept is used in the case of real accounts. The real accounts involve fixed assets like machinery, land, etc. If you credit the amount that goes out, you are reducing the account balance. The same way if you debit the amount that comes, you are adding to the account balance. That’s how it works.

• Debit: Expenses and Losses Credit: Income and Gains

  This happens in the case of the nominal accounts. If there is a liability in the capital of the company, then there will be a default credit balance. With expenses and losses, it causes a decrease in the capital. Similarly in the case of income and losses you will experience an increase in the capital.