Finance at its core involves management of capital. Consider a nonfinancial public corporation where a CFO manages its capital.

a. What are the three broad aspects of managing capital?

b. What are the linkages between finance and the various other functional areas in business

(besides accounting and economics)? Specifically, how do decisions in these functional areas

impact financial decisions made by a CFO regarding managing capital.

c. What are the linkages between the different areas of finance? Specifically, how would decisions

made by a CFO be affected by decisions made by i) decisions of individuals and ii) functioning,

structure, and decisions of financial markets and institutions?