Business Decisions
Finance department provides:
Analyses to determine which assets are purchased
Analyses to decide how those assets are financed
Oversight of how other departments spend money
Is maximizing stock price good? (Continued)
Consumer welfare is higher in capitalist free market economies than in communist or socialist economies.
Fortune lists the most admired firms. In addition to high stock returns, these firms have
high quality from customers' view
employees who like working there