Question

Finance professionals make decisions that fall into three distinctive areas: corporate finance, capital markets, and investments. Below is a set of decisions made by finance professionals. Categorize the decisions according to the area of finance to which they belong.
Decision
Corporate Finance
Capital Markets
Investments
Ethan must make a decision on how to cut costs so that his company can generate extra cash flow to acquire assets.
Radford works for an investment bank and makes decisions about the sale of new common stock by ABCL Inc.
Aakash works for a financial advising firm. He must create a financial plan and come up with a list of securities in which his client can invest. Aakash must make decisions regarding the investments that he should recommend to his clients to include in their portfolio.

Answer 1

Answer:

corporate finance

capital markets

investments

Explanation:

Corporate finance is a branch of finance that is concerned with how companies manage their sources of funds, capital structure and make investment decisions.

Ethan must make a decision on how to minimise cost so as to acquire more assets. the purchase of asset is an investment decision. the area of finance here is corporate finance.

Capital market is a market where buyers and sellers come together to buy and sell financial securities.

There are two types of capital markets :

1. Primary market - new issues of stocks and securities are traded in this market.
2. Secondary market -previously issued securities are traded in this market.

Radford is selling a newly issued common stock. He is engaged in the primary market of the capital market

Investment is an asset purchased that has the potential to increase wealth or income of the purchaser.

For example, the purchase of of securities has the potential to increase the wealth of the holder.

Aakash is involved in investment