As a branch of finance, managerial finance is concerned with assessing financial techniques used in organizations and public institutions in an effort to determine how they affect both internal and external business processes. In essence, managerial finance mix managerial and elementary corporate financial aspects to better organizations’ operations, minimize loses and implement change. As opposed to the technical financial approach, managerial finance seeks to analyze available financial information or data and then derive their inherent meaning in regard to the long term survival of a business. This paper seeks to explicate the role of managerial finance and their implication to the survival of contemporary business enterprises.

Financial statements are instrumental to internal users in that it helps them to make key business decisions. Such users include business owners, employees, managers and other stakeholders with a direct interest in an organization. Performing financial analyses on such statements helps such parties to gain an in depth understanding on their implications to internal decision making processes. On the other hand, external users require financial analysis to make decisions regarding their investments in a given organization. These include the government, banks and other financial partners as well as potential investors.

Following the above discussion, governments will always ask for financial statements to evaluate or ascertain how an organization complies with taxation rules and regulations whereas financial institutions will require this information to assess the credibility of an organization in regard to lending. According to Ulrike (2010) it is important to note here that the importance and size of managerial finance role differs across organizations and is dependent on the size and operations of such of organizations. Typically, the