Financial managers are responsible for the financial health of an organization. Generally speaking, public financial management activities are supposed to be properly managed and reported through adequate budget processes, which means that such activities are subject to scrutiny and controls as operations included in the budget.
The 1971 Bolton report on small firms outlined issues underlying the concept of ‘finance gap’ (this has two components-knowledge gap-debt is restricted due to lack of awareness of appropriate sources, advantages and disadvantages of finance; and supply gap-unavailability of funds or cost of debt to small enterprises exceeds the cost of debt for larger …
