I think c is the correct answer
<span>What is the most important duty of a firm's financial officer? to ensure that the firm has enough cash on hand to meet its commitments at any given time to decide how to pay for investments to manage working capital to make investment decisions?</span>
You can sell it later. if you lease, you are paying money for someone else's car. say you can buy a car for 20thousand or lease for 1000 per month. after 20months, you would have paid the exact same amount, except if you bought the car, you now have an asset tht can be sold.