Identify the three major functional areas of an organization's operations and describe how they interrelate.

a. Finance: responsible for securing financial resources at favorable prices and allocating those resources throughout the organization, as well as budgeting, analyzing investment proposals, and providing funds for operations.

b. Marketing: responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs, and selling and promoting the organizations goods and services.

c. Operations: management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services