What are the three main types
of Business Activities?
Business activities involves all those activities which help to run the business to earn profit. it comprises many activities financing, investing, operating (marketing, production, delivering)
Following are three main business activities
Financing Activities:
Financing
activities are those activities in which we deals with finance related task like
company needs cash to invest
in business then through finance activity the company
become able to meet with
finance requirements. Financing
activities include the inflow
of cash from investors such as banks and
shareholders, as well as the outflow of cash to
shareholders as dividends as
the company generates income. There are also other
activities which impact the
long-term liabilities and equity of the company are also
listed in the
financing activities.
Financing activities
is basically involved with financing the company. Any transaction like a loan
or anything bought on credit would be this type. The interest paid would be
considered a financing activity and would go in that section of the Statement
of Cash Flows. Dividends paid to shareholders or the repurchase of stock would
also be considered a financing activity.
Investing
Activities:
In
financing activities we arrange finance for the company investments after this
company decides where to invest the finance to earn profits, its not like day
to day activity it involves long term plans of the company, Investing
activities also include purchases or sales of an asset (land, building,
equipment, marketable securities etc) Returns on investment by investing
activities are used solely for investing purposes. Small term investments would
be considered obviously, but any loans made to customers or other entities
would also be considered an investing transaction. Dividends and interest
earned on investments would also qualify under the investing category for
Statement of Cash Flows. Purchases of long term investments such as land,
equipment or property will also be viewed as an investment.
Operating Activities:
This activity is considered as the base of the
business or we can say that it is the fundamental activity of the business.After getting finance and utilizing the finance
in investing activity it is the operating activity which helps the business to
produce and sale more products to earn more profit.
Operating activities of the business engages in
the production, sales delivery of the company’s product as well as collecting
payment from its customers this includes purchasing raw material, inventory
advertising and shipping the product. Operating
activities involves day-to-day business practices in order to run the company.
This would be anything from paying bills and receiving cash from customers.
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