The document discusses working capital and current asset management. It covers several key topics:
1. Understanding working capital management and the tradeoff between profitability and risk.
2. Describing the cash conversion cycle, its funding requirements, and strategies for managing it such as inventory turnover and accounts receivable collection.
3. Discussing inventory management techniques including the ABC classification system and economic order quantity model.
4. Explaining credit management procedures such as evaluating changes in credit standards and terms.
The document discusses the causes and impacts of the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2008. It describes how loose lending practices led to many borrowers taking out loans they could not afford, resulting in mass foreclosures when borrowers defaulted. This undermined the mortgage industry and global credit markets. The crisis significantly impacted the US and European economies through loss of home equity and wealth, rising unemployment, and declining GDP.
The document provides an overview of the financial system and its key components. It discusses how financial markets and institutions help channel funds from savers to borrowers, allowing for investment and economic growth. It then covers the major types of financial markets and instruments, including debt vs equity markets, primary vs secondary markets, money markets, capital markets, and derivatives. It also discusses the internationalization of financial markets through foreign bonds, Eurobonds, and Eurocurrencies.
Value at Risk (VAR) summarizes the worst potential loss over a target period at a given confidence level, accounting for risks across an institution. VAR is calculated using statistical techniques to estimate losses that may occur but are unlikely to be exceeded. It is used to measure market, credit, operational and enterprise-wide risk and determine capital requirements to withstand unexpected losses.
The document discusses the subprime mortgage crisis that occurred in the United States. It begins by defining prime and subprime loans, with subprime loans going to borrowers with poorer credit histories and higher interest rates. A housing bubble formed as subprime mortgages increased and home prices rose, but this bubble eventually burst in 2005-2006. As home prices dropped and borrowers defaulted on subprime loans, large losses were incurred by financial institutions, investment banks, and foreign investors. The US government responded with a $800 billion bailout package and other legislation to provide relief and regulate derivatives that had worsened the crisis.
This document defines and categorizes different types of financial intermediaries. It discusses insurance companies, mutual funds, non-banking finance companies, investment brokers, investment bankers, escrow companies, pension funds, and collective investment schemes. The main advantages of using financial intermediaries are that they help reduce costs compared to direct lending/borrowing, and help reconcile the conflicting needs of lenders and borrowers to prevent market failure. Financial intermediaries play a vital role in bringing together those with surplus funds to lend and those with shortage of funds to borrow.
This document discusses the concept of time value of money, which is important in financial management. It defines present value and future value, and provides formulas and examples to calculate future value based on the present value, interest rate, and number of periods. Benefits of understanding time value of money include analyzing investment alternatives and business activities involving loans, mortgages, savings, and annuities. Sample problems demonstrate calculating present value and future value using formulas and tables.
Short-term financing refers to loans of up to 12 months that are used to finance short-term assets and cash flow needs. Common types of short-term financing include overdrafts, trade credit, loans, and credit cards. Firms need short-term financing to finance inventory or meet growth needs when cash flow is insufficient. Spontaneous financing like accounts payable and accrued expenses also provide financing that fluctuates with sales volume without requiring additional credit. Trade credit is a major type of spontaneous financing where suppliers provide credit for 28 days.
The document discusses the causes and impacts of the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2008. It describes how loose lending practices led to many borrowers taking out loans they could not afford, resulting in mass foreclosures when borrowers defaulted. This undermined the mortgage industry and global credit markets. The crisis significantly impacted the US and European economies through loss of home equity and wealth, rising unemployment, and declining GDP.
The document provides an overview of the financial system and its key components. It discusses how financial markets and institutions help channel funds from savers to borrowers, allowing for investment and economic growth. It then covers the major types of financial markets and instruments, including debt vs equity markets, primary vs secondary markets, money markets, capital markets, and derivatives. It also discusses the internationalization of financial markets through foreign bonds, Eurobonds, and Eurocurrencies.
Value at Risk (VAR) summarizes the worst potential loss over a target period at a given confidence level, accounting for risks across an institution. VAR is calculated using statistical techniques to estimate losses that may occur but are unlikely to be exceeded. It is used to measure market, credit, operational and enterprise-wide risk and determine capital requirements to withstand unexpected losses.
The document discusses the subprime mortgage crisis that occurred in the United States. It begins by defining prime and subprime loans, with subprime loans going to borrowers with poorer credit histories and higher interest rates. A housing bubble formed as subprime mortgages increased and home prices rose, but this bubble eventually burst in 2005-2006. As home prices dropped and borrowers defaulted on subprime loans, large losses were incurred by financial institutions, investment banks, and foreign investors. The US government responded with a $800 billion bailout package and other legislation to provide relief and regulate derivatives that had worsened the crisis.
This document defines and categorizes different types of financial intermediaries. It discusses insurance companies, mutual funds, non-banking finance companies, investment brokers, investment bankers, escrow companies, pension funds, and collective investment schemes. The main advantages of using financial intermediaries are that they help reduce costs compared to direct lending/borrowing, and help reconcile the conflicting needs of lenders and borrowers to prevent market failure. Financial intermediaries play a vital role in bringing together those with surplus funds to lend and those with shortage of funds to borrow.
This document discusses the concept of time value of money, which is important in financial management. It defines present value and future value, and provides formulas and examples to calculate future value based on the present value, interest rate, and number of periods. Benefits of understanding time value of money include analyzing investment alternatives and business activities involving loans, mortgages, savings, and annuities. Sample problems demonstrate calculating present value and future value using formulas and tables.
Short-term financing refers to loans of up to 12 months that are used to finance short-term assets and cash flow needs. Common types of short-term financing include overdrafts, trade credit, loans, and credit cards. Firms need short-term financing to finance inventory or meet growth needs when cash flow is insufficient. Spontaneous financing like accounts payable and accrued expenses also provide financing that fluctuates with sales volume without requiring additional credit. Trade credit is a major type of spontaneous financing where suppliers provide credit for 28 days.
Asset allocation refers to how an investor distributes their funds across major asset classes like stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash. The document discusses three main asset allocation strategies: strategic asset allocation involves maintaining a long-term target allocation; tactical asset allocation aims to exploit short-term market changes; and insured asset allocation adjusts based on an investor's risk tolerance which may change with gains or losses. Successful asset allocation requires defining goals, assessing risk tolerance, creating a target portfolio, and periodic review/rebalancing.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in corporate finance including:
- Definitions of finance, business finance, and financial management.
- The objectives of financial management being profit maximization and wealth maximization.
- The scope and importance of financial management in planning, raising funds, investment decisions, and more.
- The relationship between financial management and other business functions like production, accounting, and marketing.
- The roles and functions of a finance manager in areas like financial planning, acquiring and investing funds.
This document provides an overview of short-term financing. It begins by defining short-term financing as financing obtained for a period of one year or less, usually to finance current assets like inventory. The document then lists and briefly describes the key topics that will be covered regarding short-term financing, including the meaning and nature, characteristics, sources, advantages, disadvantages, purposes, and types. Finally, it provides more detailed descriptions of specific sources of short-term financing like trade credit, customer advances, commercial banks, and the advantages of short-term financing including easier availability and flexibility.
This document provides an introduction to key concepts in corporate finance including what corporate finance is, its relationship to financial accounting and management accounting, the concepts of risk and return and time value of money. It discusses corporate structure including sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations. It describes the finance function and role of the financial manager in raising, allocating and returning funds. It also covers separation of ownership and management and issues of agency theory and corporate governance.
Chapter 15 The Management Of Working CapitalAlamgir Alwani
The document discusses key concepts related to working capital management. It defines working capital as the assets and liabilities used for day-to-day operations, including cash, receivables, inventory, payables, and accruals. The objective is to manage working capital efficiently with minimal funds tied up in short-term assets while balancing operational needs. Short-term financing options are also reviewed, including spontaneous financing from payables/accruals, bank loans, commercial paper, and asset-based lending secured by receivables or inventory. Cash and receivables management techniques aim to accelerate cash inflows and outflows.
The document discusses various methods of financing for businesses. It describes capital structure as the combination of debt and equity used to finance a company's assets. It then discusses three main methods of financing - equity financing, debt financing, and lease financing. Equity financing involves selling ownership stakes, debt financing involves taking loans that must be repaid with interest, and lease financing allows using assets without ownership through rental agreements.
The money multiplier is 1/required reserve ratio = 1/0.25 = 4
A $1,000 decrease in excess reserves by the Fed would cause a $4,000 decrease in the money supply based on the money multiplier formula. The answer is c.
The document discusses the meaning, objectives, principles and factors affecting financial planning. It defines financial planning as deciding the future course of action for financial management. The objectives of financial planning are to determine financial resource needs, forecast internal and external funding sources, establish financial controls and analyze operational results. Principles include adequate funds, balancing costs/risks, flexibility, simplicity, long-term view and profitability. Factors affecting plans are costs, risks, repayment dates, asset claims, needs and regulations. It also discusses estimating long-term and short-term financial needs like fixed assets, working capital, and limitations of financial planning.
Receivables Management-Definition,Objectives Of Receivable Management,Factors influencing the size of receivables,Dimensions of Receivables Management,Collection Methods Used
This document discusses the different motives for holding cash in a business, including the transaction motive, precautionary motive, and speculative motive. The transaction motive refers to needing cash for day-to-day operations like purchases, expenses, taxes, and dividends. The precautionary motive means holding cash in reserve for contingencies like floods, strikes, slow collections, or increases in costs. The speculative motive refers to holding cash for investing in profitable opportunities as they arise, such as anticipated price declines or interest rate changes.
This document discusses short-term financing options for businesses including trade credit, commercial paper, and bank loans. It describes the advantages of short-term financing over long-term options and outlines three main types: short-term loans, trade credit, and commercial paper. Key details on calculating costs and effective interest rates for each type are provided. The use of accounts receivable and inventory as collateral for short-term loans is also explained.
Factor affecting the size of investment in receivablesMohit Garg
This document discusses factors that affect the size of a company's investment in receivables. It defines receivables as debt owed to a company from customers who have purchased goods or services on credit. The size of receivables is influenced by general factors like the type of business, management policies, economic conditions and inflation, as well as specific factors including the level and terms of credit sales, credit terms given to customers, and stability of sales over time. Higher credit sales, longer collection periods, and more lenient credit terms will result in larger receivables balances for a company.
There are two main types of financing sources for small businesses: equity sources and debt sources. Equity sources include personal savings, friends and relatives, private investors, and venture capitalists, and do not require repayment but provide ownership stakes. Debt sources include banks, finance companies, credit unions, and government agencies, and must be repaid with interest but allow businesses to maintain ownership. Government programs like the SBA, EDA, and HUD provide loan guarantees and funding to help small businesses and support economic development.
This presentation discusses risk and return in investments. It defines investment risk as uncertainties that can cause actual returns to differ from expected returns. There are several types of investment risk, including market risk, liquidity risk, concentration risk, credit risk, and inflation risk. Higher risk investments tend to provide higher returns while lower risk investments have lower returns, known as the risk-return tradeoff. An investor's risk tolerance, which is their willingness to accept risk, depends on whether they have a conservative, moderate, or aggressive approach. Proper portfolio management involves diversifying investments according to an investor's goals and risk tolerance.
The document discusses mergers and acquisitions, providing details about the recent merger between State Bank of India (SBI) and five of its associate banks. It defines a merger as occurring when two similarly sized companies agree to combine to achieve together what they could not individually. An acquisition differs in that one company gains control of another but they may remain separate. The SBI merger was an exchange of shares to combine SBI with State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Hyderabad, and State Bank of Patiala. Potential pros included increased market share and competitive ability globally, while cons involved increased costs and potential cultural clashes
The document defines leverage as using fixed costs to magnify returns. There are two types of fixed costs: operating costs like rent and salaries, and financial costs like interest from debt. Leverage can increase risk but also returns. There are three types of leverage: operating, financial, and total. Operating leverage is the effect of fixed operating costs on income. Financial leverage is the effect of fixed financing costs like debt and preferred stock on earnings per share. Degree of operating leverage and degree of financial leverage measure the multiplier effect of each type of leverage. Examples using data from a levered company show that a 10% increase in sales would increase operating income by 17.14% due to operating leverage of 1.714, and operating income
This chapter discusses bonds and the bond market. It begins with an overview of bonds as longer-term securities compared to money market instruments. The chapter then covers various types of bonds including Treasury bonds, municipal bonds, and corporate bonds. It also discusses bond characteristics such as yields, ratings, and pricing. The chapter provides examples to illustrate bond pricing and yields. It aims to explain the purpose and participants of the capital market as well as the types of bonds traded within it.
The document provides an overview of international financial management for multinational corporations (MNCs). It discusses key concepts such as:
1) The main goal of MNCs is to maximize shareholder wealth, but agency conflicts can arise due to differing interests between managers and shareholders.
2) MNCs must decide whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach to management, balancing control and responsiveness.
3) Several theories help explain why firms expand internationally, such as comparative advantage and product life cycle theories.
4) MNCs have various methods to conduct international business, from exports to foreign direct investment through subsidiaries. Managing risks from foreign exchange, economies, and politics is important.
Off-balance sheet items refer to assets, debts, or financing activities that are not reported on a company's balance sheet. Companies often use off-balance sheet financing to keep debt-to-equity ratios low and appear more financially stable. While tax laws allow excluding these items from financial statements through footnotes, they still represent legal obligations or risks for the company. Governments also sometimes use off-balance sheet accounting by not reporting future liabilities like oil bonds on the current year's balance sheet.
This document provides information about mortgage-backed securities and the securitization process. It defines key terms like mortgages, MBS, and special purpose vehicles. It describes the major players in securitization like borrowers, originators, trustees, servicers, issuers, investors, and rating agencies. It explains how MBS are issued through an SPV and the types of MBS like pass-through, stripped, and collateralized mortgage obligations. Finally, it outlines regulations and guidelines from the SECP and SBP for entities involved in securitization.
Okay, let me calculate the working capital requirement step-by-step:
1) Raw Material for 60000 units
= 60000 * 60% of Rs. 5 = Rs. 18,00,000
2) Work in Progress for 60000 units
= 60000 * 10% of Rs. 5 = Rs. 3,00,000
3) Finished Goods for 60000 units
= 60000 * 20% of Rs. 5 = Rs. 6,00,000
4) Debtors for 60000 units at selling price of Rs. 5 per unit
= 60000 * Rs. 5 = Rs. 3,00,000
5) Creditors for 2
Topic 5 tools techniques of managing of cashRAJKAMAL282
The document discusses tools and techniques for managing cash, including:
- The three motives for holding cash: transactions, precautionary, and speculative.
- Cash management models like the Baumol and Miller-Orr models that aim to minimize costs of cash movements.
- Preparing cash flow forecasts from receipts/payments, statements of financial position, or working capital ratios.
- Short-term investment options for surplus cash and sources of short-term borrowing.
Asset allocation refers to how an investor distributes their funds across major asset classes like stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash. The document discusses three main asset allocation strategies: strategic asset allocation involves maintaining a long-term target allocation; tactical asset allocation aims to exploit short-term market changes; and insured asset allocation adjusts based on an investor's risk tolerance which may change with gains or losses. Successful asset allocation requires defining goals, assessing risk tolerance, creating a target portfolio, and periodic review/rebalancing.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in corporate finance including:
- Definitions of finance, business finance, and financial management.
- The objectives of financial management being profit maximization and wealth maximization.
- The scope and importance of financial management in planning, raising funds, investment decisions, and more.
- The relationship between financial management and other business functions like production, accounting, and marketing.
- The roles and functions of a finance manager in areas like financial planning, acquiring and investing funds.
This document provides an overview of short-term financing. It begins by defining short-term financing as financing obtained for a period of one year or less, usually to finance current assets like inventory. The document then lists and briefly describes the key topics that will be covered regarding short-term financing, including the meaning and nature, characteristics, sources, advantages, disadvantages, purposes, and types. Finally, it provides more detailed descriptions of specific sources of short-term financing like trade credit, customer advances, commercial banks, and the advantages of short-term financing including easier availability and flexibility.
This document provides an introduction to key concepts in corporate finance including what corporate finance is, its relationship to financial accounting and management accounting, the concepts of risk and return and time value of money. It discusses corporate structure including sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations. It describes the finance function and role of the financial manager in raising, allocating and returning funds. It also covers separation of ownership and management and issues of agency theory and corporate governance.
Chapter 15 The Management Of Working CapitalAlamgir Alwani
The document discusses key concepts related to working capital management. It defines working capital as the assets and liabilities used for day-to-day operations, including cash, receivables, inventory, payables, and accruals. The objective is to manage working capital efficiently with minimal funds tied up in short-term assets while balancing operational needs. Short-term financing options are also reviewed, including spontaneous financing from payables/accruals, bank loans, commercial paper, and asset-based lending secured by receivables or inventory. Cash and receivables management techniques aim to accelerate cash inflows and outflows.
The document discusses various methods of financing for businesses. It describes capital structure as the combination of debt and equity used to finance a company's assets. It then discusses three main methods of financing - equity financing, debt financing, and lease financing. Equity financing involves selling ownership stakes, debt financing involves taking loans that must be repaid with interest, and lease financing allows using assets without ownership through rental agreements.
The money multiplier is 1/required reserve ratio = 1/0.25 = 4
A $1,000 decrease in excess reserves by the Fed would cause a $4,000 decrease in the money supply based on the money multiplier formula. The answer is c.
The document discusses the meaning, objectives, principles and factors affecting financial planning. It defines financial planning as deciding the future course of action for financial management. The objectives of financial planning are to determine financial resource needs, forecast internal and external funding sources, establish financial controls and analyze operational results. Principles include adequate funds, balancing costs/risks, flexibility, simplicity, long-term view and profitability. Factors affecting plans are costs, risks, repayment dates, asset claims, needs and regulations. It also discusses estimating long-term and short-term financial needs like fixed assets, working capital, and limitations of financial planning.
Receivables Management-Definition,Objectives Of Receivable Management,Factors influencing the size of receivables,Dimensions of Receivables Management,Collection Methods Used
This document discusses the different motives for holding cash in a business, including the transaction motive, precautionary motive, and speculative motive. The transaction motive refers to needing cash for day-to-day operations like purchases, expenses, taxes, and dividends. The precautionary motive means holding cash in reserve for contingencies like floods, strikes, slow collections, or increases in costs. The speculative motive refers to holding cash for investing in profitable opportunities as they arise, such as anticipated price declines or interest rate changes.
This document discusses short-term financing options for businesses including trade credit, commercial paper, and bank loans. It describes the advantages of short-term financing over long-term options and outlines three main types: short-term loans, trade credit, and commercial paper. Key details on calculating costs and effective interest rates for each type are provided. The use of accounts receivable and inventory as collateral for short-term loans is also explained.
Factor affecting the size of investment in receivablesMohit Garg
This document discusses factors that affect the size of a company's investment in receivables. It defines receivables as debt owed to a company from customers who have purchased goods or services on credit. The size of receivables is influenced by general factors like the type of business, management policies, economic conditions and inflation, as well as specific factors including the level and terms of credit sales, credit terms given to customers, and stability of sales over time. Higher credit sales, longer collection periods, and more lenient credit terms will result in larger receivables balances for a company.
There are two main types of financing sources for small businesses: equity sources and debt sources. Equity sources include personal savings, friends and relatives, private investors, and venture capitalists, and do not require repayment but provide ownership stakes. Debt sources include banks, finance companies, credit unions, and government agencies, and must be repaid with interest but allow businesses to maintain ownership. Government programs like the SBA, EDA, and HUD provide loan guarantees and funding to help small businesses and support economic development.
This presentation discusses risk and return in investments. It defines investment risk as uncertainties that can cause actual returns to differ from expected returns. There are several types of investment risk, including market risk, liquidity risk, concentration risk, credit risk, and inflation risk. Higher risk investments tend to provide higher returns while lower risk investments have lower returns, known as the risk-return tradeoff. An investor's risk tolerance, which is their willingness to accept risk, depends on whether they have a conservative, moderate, or aggressive approach. Proper portfolio management involves diversifying investments according to an investor's goals and risk tolerance.
The document discusses mergers and acquisitions, providing details about the recent merger between State Bank of India (SBI) and five of its associate banks. It defines a merger as occurring when two similarly sized companies agree to combine to achieve together what they could not individually. An acquisition differs in that one company gains control of another but they may remain separate. The SBI merger was an exchange of shares to combine SBI with State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Hyderabad, and State Bank of Patiala. Potential pros included increased market share and competitive ability globally, while cons involved increased costs and potential cultural clashes
The document defines leverage as using fixed costs to magnify returns. There are two types of fixed costs: operating costs like rent and salaries, and financial costs like interest from debt. Leverage can increase risk but also returns. There are three types of leverage: operating, financial, and total. Operating leverage is the effect of fixed operating costs on income. Financial leverage is the effect of fixed financing costs like debt and preferred stock on earnings per share. Degree of operating leverage and degree of financial leverage measure the multiplier effect of each type of leverage. Examples using data from a levered company show that a 10% increase in sales would increase operating income by 17.14% due to operating leverage of 1.714, and operating income
This chapter discusses bonds and the bond market. It begins with an overview of bonds as longer-term securities compared to money market instruments. The chapter then covers various types of bonds including Treasury bonds, municipal bonds, and corporate bonds. It also discusses bond characteristics such as yields, ratings, and pricing. The chapter provides examples to illustrate bond pricing and yields. It aims to explain the purpose and participants of the capital market as well as the types of bonds traded within it.
The document provides an overview of international financial management for multinational corporations (MNCs). It discusses key concepts such as:
1) The main goal of MNCs is to maximize shareholder wealth, but agency conflicts can arise due to differing interests between managers and shareholders.
2) MNCs must decide whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach to management, balancing control and responsiveness.
3) Several theories help explain why firms expand internationally, such as comparative advantage and product life cycle theories.
4) MNCs have various methods to conduct international business, from exports to foreign direct investment through subsidiaries. Managing risks from foreign exchange, economies, and politics is important.
Off-balance sheet items refer to assets, debts, or financing activities that are not reported on a company's balance sheet. Companies often use off-balance sheet financing to keep debt-to-equity ratios low and appear more financially stable. While tax laws allow excluding these items from financial statements through footnotes, they still represent legal obligations or risks for the company. Governments also sometimes use off-balance sheet accounting by not reporting future liabilities like oil bonds on the current year's balance sheet.
This document provides information about mortgage-backed securities and the securitization process. It defines key terms like mortgages, MBS, and special purpose vehicles. It describes the major players in securitization like borrowers, originators, trustees, servicers, issuers, investors, and rating agencies. It explains how MBS are issued through an SPV and the types of MBS like pass-through, stripped, and collateralized mortgage obligations. Finally, it outlines regulations and guidelines from the SECP and SBP for entities involved in securitization.
Okay, let me calculate the working capital requirement step-by-step:
1) Raw Material for 60000 units
= 60000 * 60% of Rs. 5 = Rs. 18,00,000
2) Work in Progress for 60000 units
= 60000 * 10% of Rs. 5 = Rs. 3,00,000
3) Finished Goods for 60000 units
= 60000 * 20% of Rs. 5 = Rs. 6,00,000
4) Debtors for 60000 units at selling price of Rs. 5 per unit
= 60000 * Rs. 5 = Rs. 3,00,000
5) Creditors for 2
Topic 5 tools techniques of managing of cashRAJKAMAL282
The document discusses tools and techniques for managing cash, including:
- The three motives for holding cash: transactions, precautionary, and speculative.
- Cash management models like the Baumol and Miller-Orr models that aim to minimize costs of cash movements.
- Preparing cash flow forecasts from receipts/payments, statements of financial position, or working capital ratios.
- Short-term investment options for surplus cash and sources of short-term borrowing.
Working capital management involves managing a firm's current assets and current liabilities. There are different types of working capital policies that determine the relationship between sales levels and current asset levels, such as conservative, moderate, and aggressive policies. Key aspects of working capital management include determining an optimal level of working capital to balance liquidity and profitability, classifying working capital needs as permanent or temporary, and selecting appropriate financing sources using approaches like hedging or matching maturities of financing to asset needs.
This document discusses the concepts of working capital including gross working capital, net working capital, permanent working capital, and temporary/variable working capital. It explains the need for adequate working capital to sustain business operations and sales activity. The operating cycle approach for estimating working capital requirements is described, involving raw materials, work-in-progress, finished goods, and receivables collection stages. Sources of working capital including long-term and short-term funds are covered. Techniques for assessing working capital needs such as the components method and percent of sales approach are summarized.
The document discusses various aspects of working capital management including:
1. Operating cycle is the time duration from procurement of raw materials to realization of sales.
2. Working capital is the difference between current assets and current liabilities and is needed for day-to-day operations.
3. Operating cycle period is the sum of inventory conversion period and receivable conversion period, which are the times required to convert raw materials to finished goods and credit sales to cash respectively.
A Project on Working Capital Management by Alok, PGDM, IPE, Hyderabad.Alok Reddy
Working Capital Management at Rajapushpa Properties Pvt Ltd, a privately owned real-estate firm with projects around Hyderabad's IT corridor and financial district.
1. Financial ratio analysis
2. Trend analysis of the components of working capital
3. Forecasting working capital requirement
4. Calulation of the cash conversion cycle, DSO, DPO
The document discusses various aspects of capital budgeting and working capital management. It defines capital budgeting as planning for long-term expenditures and notes the importance of accurate forecasts. It also describes different types of capital projects and methods for evaluating them such as payback period. The document then covers working capital, its components like inventory and accounts receivable, and techniques for managing it such as cash conversion cycle. It emphasizes the importance of balancing risk and return in cash management.
Cost of Capital and Managing the working capital.pptxGinoLacandula1
The document discusses the concepts of cost of capital and working capital. It defines cost of capital as the expected rate of return required to finance an investment. The cost depends on the type of financing used, whether debt, equity, or a mixture. There are different types of cost of capital classified by nature and usage. The document also explains how to calculate the weighted average cost of capital using formulas for cost of debt, cost of equity, and the weighted average. It then defines working capital as current assets minus current liabilities, and discusses factors that influence working capital requirements, different types of working capital needs, and working capital management policies.
Mr. Khan, the president of Dynamics Inc., was shocked to learn that one of the company's main suppliers would no longer supply them with needed parts. This was due to Dynamics' inability to pay its obligations on time, despite record sales and profits. Mr. Khan did not understand how the company could be short on cash to pay bills. Effective working capital management is needed to balance current assets and liabilities to ensure sufficient cash flow for daily operations. The cash conversion cycle and operating cycle must be optimized by managing areas like inventory levels, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash balances.
Working capital refers to the capital required for a company's day-to-day business operations and is calculated as current assets minus current liabilities. There are different types of working capital including permanent working capital which is always invested and variable working capital which fluctuates. The objectives of working capital management include maintaining smooth business operations, minimizing capital costs, and maximizing returns on current asset investments. Companies must balance inventory, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash levels to maintain a healthy working capital cycle.
Working capital refers to funds used for day-to-day operations of a business. It includes current assets like inventory, receivables, cash, and prepaid expenses. Effective working capital management involves determining the appropriate level of current assets and arranging sources of short-term financing. Key aspects of working capital management include accounts receivable management through techniques like factoring, inventory management using methods such as determining economic order quantity and reorder levels, and evaluating sources of working capital.
Working capital refers to the capital required to meet the day-to-day operational expenses of a business like wages, raw materials, utilities etc. It consists of current assets like inventory, receivables, cash etc. Proper management of working capital involves determining the optimal level of current assets and liabilities and arranging sources to finance them. The key components of working capital to be managed are inventory, receivables and cash. Firms use various short-term financing options like bank finance, trade credit, commercial paper etc. to manage their working capital requirements.
The document provides an introduction to working capital management. It defines working capital as "capital invested in current assets" which are assets that can be converted to cash within a short time. It then discusses key concepts like gross working capital, net working capital, and the operating cycle. The importance of working capital management and determining adequate working capital requirements is emphasized. Techniques for managing current assets like cash, receivables, and inventory are also summarized.
The document discusses concepts related to working capital management. It defines working capital as the difference between current assets and current liabilities. It discusses various types of working capital like gross, net, permanent, temporary, etc. It explains the working capital cycle and requirements of working capital for different types of businesses. It discusses objectives, measurement, and management of working capital and provides methods to estimate working capital requirements like percentage of sales method and regression analysis method.
This document discusses capital budgeting methods for evaluating projects that span multiple years. It covers key concepts like net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, and accrual rate of return. The document provides examples to illustrate how to calculate NPV, IRR, and payback period for hypothetical capital investment projects. It also discusses how depreciation affects after-tax cash flows and how performance evaluation using accrual rates can conflict with capital budgeting decisions made using discounted cash flow methods.
This document discusses key concepts in working capital and current assets/liabilities management from Chapter 2 of a financial management textbook. It covers the components of working capital, including cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and short-term debt. It discusses managing the cash conversion cycle by reducing inventory holding periods, collection periods, and payment periods. Methods for managing inventory like the ABC classification system and economic order quantity model are explained. The document also covers accounts receivable management techniques like credit scoring and changing credit standards. Strategies for funding working capital requirements like aggressive versus conservative approaches are presented.
This document discusses working capital and current asset management. It covers topics such as net working capital, the cash conversion cycle, funding requirements of the cash conversion cycle including permanent vs seasonal needs, strategies for managing the cash conversion cycle such as inventory and receivables management, changing credit standards and terms, and credit monitoring. The document uses examples and diagrams to illustrate key concepts in short-term financial management.
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1. BBA 2204 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Working Capital & Current
Working Capital & Current
Assets Management
Assets Management
by
Stephen Ong
Visiting Fellow, Birmingham City
University Business School, UK
Visiting Professor, Shenzhen
3. Learning Goals
1.
Understand working capital management, net working capital, and the
related trade-off between profitability and risk.
2.
Describe the cash conversion cycle, its funding requirements, and the key
strategies for managing it.
3.
Discuss inventory management: differing views, common techniques,
and international concerns.
4.
Explain the credit selection process and the quantitative procedure for
evaluating changes in credit standards.
5.
Review the procedures for quantitatively considering cash discount
changes, other aspects of credit terms, and credit monitoring.
6.
Understand the management of receipts and disbursements, including
float, speeding up collections, slowing down payments, cash
concentration, zero-balance accounts, and investing in marketable
securities.
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4. Net Working Capital Fundamentals:
Working Capital Management
∗Working capital (or short-term financial)
management is the management of current assets
and current liabilities.
∗ Current assets include inventory, accounts receivable,
marketable securities, and cash
∗ Current liabilities include notes payable, accruals, and
accounts payable
∗ Firms are able to reduce financing costs or increase the
funds available for expansion by minimizing the
amount of funds tied up in working capital
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5. Matter of Fact
∗ CFOs Value Working Capital Management
∗ A survey of CFOs from firms around the world suggests that
working capital management is a top the list of most
valued finance functions.
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∗ Among 19 different finance functions, CFOs surveyed viewed
working capital management as equally important as capital
structure, debt issuance and management, bank relationships,
and tax management.
∗ CFOs viewed the performance of working capital management
as only being better than the performance of pension
management.
∗ Consistent with their view that working capital management is
a high value but low satisfaction activity, it was identified as
the finance function second most in need of additional
resources.
6. Net Working Capital Fundamentals:
Net Working Capital
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• Working capital refers to current
assets, which represent the portion of
investment that circulates from one
form to another in the ordinary
conduct of business.
• Net working capital is the difference
between the firm’s current assets and
its current liabilities; can be positive
or negative.
7. Net Working Capital Fundamentals:
Trade-off between Profitability and Risk
• Profitability is the relationship between
revenues and costs generated by using the firm’s
assets—both current and fixed—in productive
activities.
∗ A firm can increase its profits by (1) increasing
revenues or (2) decreasing costs.
• Risk (of insolvency) is the probability that a
firm will be unable to pay its bills as they come
due.
• Insolvent describes a firm that is unable to pay
its bills as they come due.
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9. Figure 15.1 Yearly Medians for All U.S.Listed Manufacturing Companies
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10. Cash Conversion Cycle
∗The cash conversion cycle
(CCC) is the length of time
required for a company to
convert cash invested in its
operations to cash received as a
result of its operations.
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11. Cash Conversion Cycle:
Calculating the Cash Conversion Cycle
• A firm’s operating cycle (OC) is the time
from the beginning of the production
process to collection of cash from the sale
of the finished product.
• It is measured in elapsed time by
summing the average age of inventory
(AAI) and the average collection period
(ACP).
∗ OC = AAI + ACP
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12. Matter of Fact
∗ Increasing speed lowers working
capital
∗ A firm can lower its working capital if it
can speed up its operating cycle.
∗ For example, if a firm accepts bank
credit (like a Visa card), it will receive
cash sooner after the sale is transacted
than if it has to wait until the customer
pays its accounts receivable.
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13. Cash Conversion Cycle:
Calculating the Cash Conversion Cycle
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• However, the process of producing and selling a
product also includes the purchase of production
inputs (raw materials) on account, which results
in accounts payable.
• The time it takes to pay the accounts payable,
measured in days, is the average payment period
(APP). The operating cycle less the average
payment period yields the cash conversion
cycle. The formula for the cash conversion cycle
is:
∗ CCC = OC – APP
14. Cash Conversion Cycle:
Calculating the Cash Conversion Cycle
∗Substituting for OC, we can see that
the cash conversion cycle has three
main components, as shown in the
following equation: (1) average age of
the inventory, (2) average collection
period, and (3) average payment
period.
∗CCC = AAI + ACP – APP
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16. Cash Conversion Cycle: Funding
Requirements of the Cash Conversion Cycle
∗A permanent funding requirement
is a constant investment in operating
assets resulting from constant sales
over time.
∗A seasonal funding requirement is
an investment in operating assets that
varies over time as a result of cyclic
sales.
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18. Cash Conversion Cycle: Aggressive versus
Conservative Seasonal Funding Strategies
∗An aggressive funding strategy is a
funding strategy under which the firm
funds its seasonal requirements with shortterm debt and its permanent requirements
with long-term debt.
∗A conservative funding strategy is a
funding strategy under which the firm
funds both its seasonal and its permanent
requirements with long-term debt.
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19. Cash Conversion Cycle: Aggressive versus
Conservative Seasonal Funding Strategies
∗Semper Pump Company has a permanent funding requirement of
$135,000 in operating assets and seasonal funding requirements that
vary between $0 and $990,000 and average $101,250. If Semper
can borrow short-term funds at 6.25% and long-term funds at 8%,
and if it can earn 5% on the investment of any surplus balances,
then the annual cost of an aggressive strategy for seasonal funding
will be:
Cost of short-term financing
+ Cost of long-term financing
– Earnings on surplus balances
Total cost of aggressive
strategy
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= 0.0625 × $101,250
= 0.0800 × 135,000
= 0.0500 ×
0
=
=
=
=
$ 6,328.13
10,800.00
0
$17,128.13
20. Cash Conversion Cycle: Aggressive versus
Conservative Seasonal Funding Strategies
∗Alternatively, Semper can choose a conservative strategy,
under which surplus cash balances are fully invested. (In
Figure 15.3, this surplus will be the difference between the
peak need of $1,125,000 and the total need, which varies
between $135,000 and $1,125,000 during the year.) The cost
of the conservative strategy will be:
Cost of short-term financing
= 0.0625 × $
0 =
= 0.0800 × 1,125,000 =
+ Cost of long-term financing
= 0.0500 × 888,750 =
– Earnings on surplus balances
Total cost of conservative strategy
=
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$
0
90,000.00
44,437.50
$45,562.50
21. Cash Conversion Cycle: Strategies for
Managing the Cash Conversion Cycle
∗The goal is to minimize the length of the cash conversion
cycle, which minimizes negotiated liabilities. This goal
can be realized through use of the following strategies:
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1. Turn over inventory as quickly as possible without stockouts
that result in lost sales.
2. Collect accounts receivable as quickly as possible without
losing sales from high-pressure collection techniques.
3. Manage mail, processing, and clearing time to reduce them
when collecting from customers and to increase them when
paying suppliers.
4. Pay accounts payable as slowly as possible without
damaging the firm’s credit rating.
22. Inventory Management
∗Differing viewpoints about appropriate inventory levels
commonly exist among a firm’s finance, marketing,
manufacturing, and purchasing managers.
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∗ The financial manager’s general disposition toward inventory
levels is to keep them low, to ensure that the firm’s money is
not being unwisely invested in excess resources.
∗ The marketing manager, on the other hand, would like to have
large inventories of the firm’s finished products.
∗ The manufacturing manager’s major responsibility is to
implement the production plan so that it results in the desired
amount of finished goods of acceptable quality available on
time at a low cost.
∗ The purchasing manager is concerned solely with the raw
materials inventories.
23. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory
∗The ABC inventory system is an inventory
management technique that divides inventory into three
groups—A, B, and C, in descending order of importance
and level of monitoring, on the basis of the dollar
investment in each.
∗ The A group includes those items with the largest dollar
investment. Typically, this group consists of 20 percent of the
firm’s inventory items but 80 percent of its investment in
inventory.
∗ The B group consists of items that account for the next largest
investment in inventory.
∗ The C group consists of a large number of items that require a
relatively small investment.
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24. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗The inventory group of each item determines the
item’s level of monitoring.
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∗ The A group items receive the most intense monitoring
because of the high dollar investment. Typically, A group
items are tracked on a perpetual inventory system that
allows daily verification of each item’s inventory level.
∗ B group items are frequently controlled through periodic,
perhaps weekly, checking of their levels.
∗ C group items are monitored with unsophisticated
techniques, such as the two-bin method; an
unsophisticated inventory-monitoring technique that
involves reordering inventory when one of two bins is
empty.
25. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗The large dollar investment in A and B group
items suggests the need for a better method of
inventory management than the ABC system.
∗The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Model is
an inventory management technique for
determining an item’s optimal order size, which is
the size that minimizes the total of its order costs
and carrying costs.
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∗ The EOQ model is an appropriate model for the
management of A and B group items.
26. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗EOQ assumes that the relevant costs of inventory
can be divided into order costs and carrying costs.
∗ Order costs are the fixed clerical costs of placing and
receiving an inventory order.
∗ Carrying costs are the variable costs per unit of
holding an item in inventory for a specific period of
time.
∗The EOQ model analyzes the tradeoff between
order costs and carrying costs to determine the
order quantity that minimizes the total inventory
cost.
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27. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗A formula can be developed for determining the
firm’s EOQ for a given inventory item, where
S = usage in units per period
O = order cost per order
C = carrying cost per unit per period
Q = order quantity in units
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∗The order cost can be expressed as the product of
the cost per order and the number of orders.
Because the number of orders equals the usage
during the period divided by the order quantity
(S/Q), the order cost can be expressed as follows:
∗Order cost = O × S/Q
28. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗The carrying cost is defined as the cost of carrying a unit
of inventory per period multiplied by the firm’s average
inventory. The average inventory is the order quantity
divided by 2 (Q/2), because inventory is assumed to be
depleted at a constant rate. Thus carrying cost can be
expressed as follows:
∗Carrying cost = C × Q/2
∗The firm’s total cost of inventory is found by summing the
order cost and the carrying cost. Thus the total cost
function is
∗Total cost = (O × S/Q) + (C × Q/2)
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29. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗Because the EOQ is defined as the
order quantity that minimizes the total
cost function, we must solve the total
cost function for the EOQ. The
resulting equation is
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30. Personal Finance Example
∗The von Dammes plan to keep whichever car they choose for 3
years and expect to drive it 12,000 miles in each of those years.
They will use the same dollar amount of financing repaid under the
same terms for either car and they expect the cars to have identical
repair costs over the 3-year ownership period. They also assume
that the trade-in value of the two cars at the end of 3 years will be
identical. Both cars use regular unleaded gas, which they estimate
will cost, on average, $3.20 per gallon over the 3 years. The key
data for each car follows:
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31. Personal Finance Example (cont.)
∗We can begin by calculating the total fuel cost for each car over
the 3-year ownership period:
∗Conventional: [(3 years × 12,000 miles per year)/27 miles per
gallon]
∗
× $3.20 per gallon
∗
= 1,333.33 gallons × $3.20 per gallon = $4,267
∗Hybrid: [(3 years × 12,000 miles per year)/42 miles per gallon]
∗
× $3.20 per gallon
∗
= 857.14 gallons × $3.20 per gallon = $2,743
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32. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗The reorder point is the point at
which to reorder inventory, expressed
as days of lead time × daily usage.
∗Because lead times and usage rates
are not precise, most firms hold safety
stock—extra inventory that is held to
prevent stockouts of important items.
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33. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗MAX Company, a producer of dinnerware, has an A group
inventory item that is vital to the production process. This
item costs $1,500, and MAX uses 1,100 units of the item per
year. MAX wants to determine its optimal order strategy for
the item. To calculate the EOQ, we need the following
inputs:
∗ Order cost per order = $150
∗ Carrying cost per unit per year = $200
∗ Thus,
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34. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗The reorder point for MAX depends on
the number of days MAX operates per year.
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∗ Assuming that MAX operates 250 days per
year and uses 1,100 units of this item, its daily
usage is 4.4 units (1,100 ÷ 250).
∗ If its lead time is 2 days and MAX wants to
maintain a safety stock of 4 units, the reorder
point for this item is 12.8 units [(2 × 4.4) + 4].
∗ However, orders are made only in whole
units, so the order is placed when the
inventory falls to 13 units.
35. Inventory Management: Common
Techniques for Managing Inventory (cont.)
∗A just-in-time (JIT) system is an inventory
management technique that minimizes inventory
investment by having materials arrive at exactly the
time they are needed for production.
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∗ Because its objective is to minimize inventory investment,
a JIT system uses no (or very little) safety stock.
∗ Extensive coordination among the firm’s employees, its
suppliers, and shipping companies must exist to ensure
that material inputs arrive on time.
∗ Failure of materials to arrive on time results in a shutdown
of the production line until the materials arrive.
∗ Likewise, a JIT system requires high-quality parts from
suppliers.
36. Focus on Practice
∗ RFID: The Wave of the Future
∗ Wal-Mart expects the RFID technology to improve its
inventory management, and it remains committed to
advancing its use of RFID.
∗ Wal-Mart will then share the benefits and best
practices with its suppliers, which might want to
achieve the same benefits from the technology.
∗ What problem might occur with the full
implementation of RFID technology in retail
industries? Specifically, consider the amount of data
that might be collected.
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37. Inventory Management: Computerized
Systems for Resource Control
∗A materials requirement planning (MRP) system is
an inventory management technique that applies EOQ
concepts and a computer to compare production needs to
available inventory balances and determine when orders
should be placed for various items on a product’s bill of
materials.
∗Manufacturing resource planning II (MRP II) is a
sophisticated computerized system that integrates data
from numerous areas such as finance, accounting,
marketing, engineering, and manufacturing and generates
production plans as well as numerous financial and
management reports.
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38. Inventory Management: Computerized
Systems for Resource Control (cont.)
∗Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a
computerized system that electronically
integrates external information about the
firm’s suppliers and customers with the
firm’s departmental data so that information
on all available resources—human and
material—can be instantly obtained in a
fashion that eliminates production delays
and controls costs.
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39. Accounts Receivable
Management
∗The second component of the cash conversion cycle
is the average collection period. The average
collection period has two parts:
1. The time from the sale until the customer mails the
payment.
2. The time from when the payment is mailed until the firm
has the collected funds in its bank account.
∗The objective for managing accounts receivable is to
collect accounts receivable as quickly as possible
without losing sales from high-pressure collection
techniques. Accomplishing this goal encompasses
three topics: (1) credit selection and standards, (2)
credit terms, and (3) credit monitoring.
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40. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards
∗Credit standards are a firm’s minimum requirements
for extending credit to a customer.
∗The five C’s of credit are as follows:
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1. Character: The applicant’s record of meeting past
obligations.
2. Capacity: The applicant’s ability to repay the requested
credit.
3. Capital: The applicant’s debt relative to equity.
4. Collateral: The amount of assets the applicant has
available for use in securing the credit.
5. Conditions: Current general and industry-specific
economic conditions, and any unique conditions
surrounding a specific transaction.
41. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Credit scoring is a credit
selection method commonly used
with high-volume/small-dollar
credit requests; relies on a credit
score determined by applying
statistically derived weights to a
credit applicant’s scores on key
financial and credit characteristics.
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42. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗The firm sometimes will contemplate changing
its credit standards in an effort to improve its
returns and create greater value for its owners. To
demonstrate, consider the following changes and
effects on profits expected to result from the
relaxation of credit standards.
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43. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Dodd Tool is currently selling a product for $10 per unit. Sales
(all on credit) for last year were 60,000 units. The variable cost
per unit is $6. The firm’s total fixed costs are $120,000.The firm
is currently contemplating a relaxation of credit standards that
is expected to result in the following:
∗ a 5% increase in unit sales to 63,000 units;
∗ an increase in the average collection period from 30 days (the current
level) to 45 days;
∗ an increase in bad-debt expenses from 1% of sales (the current level)
to 2%.
∗The firm’s required return on equal-risk investments, which is
the opportunity cost of tying up funds in accounts receivable, is
15%.
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44. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Because fixed costs are “sunk” and therefore are
unaffected by a change in the sales level, the only
cost relevant to a change in sales is variable costs.
Sales are expected to increase by 5%, or 3,000
units. The profit contribution per unit will equal
the difference between the sale price per unit
($10) and the variable cost per unit ($6). The
profit contribution per unit therefore will be $4.
The total additional profit contribution from sales
will be $12,000 (3,000 units × $4 per unit).
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45. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗To determine the cost of the marginal investment in
accounts receivable, Dodd must find the difference
between the cost of carrying receivables under the two
credit standards. Because its concern is only with the
out-of-pocket costs, the relevant cost is the variable cost.
The average investment in accounts receivable can be
calculated by using the following formula:
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46. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Total variable cost of annual sales
∗ Under present plan: ($6 × 60,000 units) =
$360,000
∗ Under proposed plan: ($6 × 63,000 units) =
$378,000
∗The turnover of accounts receivable is
the number of times each year that the
firm’s accounts receivable are actually
turned into cash. It is found by dividing
the average collection period into 365 (the
number of days assumed in a year).
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47. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Turnover of accounts receivable
∗ Under present plan:
∗ Under proposed plan:
(365/30) = 12.2
(365/45) = 8.1
∗By substituting the cost and turnover data just
calculated into the average investment in accounts
receivable equation for each case, we get the
following average investments in accounts
receivable:
∗ Under present plan:
∗ Under proposed plan:
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($360,000/12.2) = $29,508
($378,000/8.1) = $46,667
48. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Cost of marginal investment in accounts
receivable
Average investment under proposed plan
$46,667
– Average investment under present plan
29,508
Marginal investment in accounts receivable $17,159
× Required return on investment
0.15
Cost of marginal investment in A/R
$ 2,574
∗The resulting value of $2,574 is considered a
cost because it represents the maximum amount
that could have been earned on the $17,159 had it
been placed in the best equal-risk investment
alternative available at the firm’s required return
on investment of 15%.
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49. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗ Cost of marginal bad debts
Under proposed plan: (0.02 × $10/unit × 63,000 units) = $12,600
Under present plan:
(0.01 × $10/unit × 60,000 units) = 6,000
Cost of marginal bad debts
$ 6,600
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50. Table 15.2 Effects on Dodd Tool of a
Relaxation in Credit Standards
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51. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Selection and Standards (cont.)
∗Credit management is difficult enough for
managers of purely domestic companies,
and these tasks become much more
complex for companies that operate
internationally.
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∗ This is partly because international operations
typically expose a firm to exchange rate risk.
∗ It is also due to the dangers and delays
involved in shipping goods long distances and
in having to cross at least two international
borders.
52. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms
∗Credit terms are the terms of sale for customers
who have been extended credit by the firm.
∗A cash discount is a percentage deduction from
the purchase price; available to the credit
customer who pays its account within a specified
time.
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∗ For example, terms of 2/10 net 30 mean the customer
can take a 2 percent discount from the invoice
amount if the payment is made within 10 days of the
beginning of the credit period or can pay the full
amount of the invoice within 30 days.
53. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
∗MAX Company has annual sales of $10 million and an
average collection period of 40 days (turnover = 365/40 =
9.1). In accordance with the firm’s credit terms of net 30,
this period is divided into 32 days until the customers
place their payments in the mail (not everyone pays within
30 days) and 8 days to receive, process, and collect
payments once they are mailed. MAX is considering
initiating a cash discount by changing its credit terms from
net 30 to 2/10 net 30. The firm expects this change to
reduce the amount of time until the payments are placed in
the mail, resulting in an average collection period of 25
days (turnover = 365/25 = 14.6).
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55. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
∗A cash discount period is the number of days after the
beginning of the credit period during which the cash
discount is available.
∗The net effect of changes in this period is difficult to
analyze because of the nature of the forces involved.
∗ For example, if a firm were to increase its cash discount
period by 10 days (for example, changing its credit terms
from 2/10 net 30 to 2/20 net 30), the following changes would
be expected to occur: (1) Sales would increase, positively
affecting profit. (2) Bad-debt expenses would decrease,
positively affecting profit. (3) The profit per unit would
decrease as a result of more people taking the discount,
negatively affecting profit.
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56. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
∗The credit period is the number of days after the
beginning of the credit period until full payment of the
account is due.
∗Changes in the credit period, the number of days after
the beginning of the credit period until full payment of the
account is due, also affect a firm’s profitability.
∗ For example, increasing a firm’s credit period from net 30 days
to net 45 days should increase sales, positively affecting profit.
But both the investment in accounts receivable and bad-debt
expenses would also increase, negatively affecting profit.
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57. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
∗Credit monitoring is the ongoing review of a
firm’s accounts receivable to determine whether
customers are paying according to the stated credit
terms.
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∗ If they are not paying in a timely manner, credit
monitoring will alert the firm to the problem.
∗ Slow payments are costly to a firm because they
lengthen the average collection period and thus
increase the firm’s investment in accounts receivable.
∗ Two frequently used techniques for credit monitoring
are average collection period and aging of accounts
receivable.
58. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
∗The average collection period has two components: (1) the
time from sale until the customer places the payment in the
mail and (2) the time to receive, process, and collect the
payment once it has been mailed by the customer. The
formula for finding the average collection period is:
∗Assuming receipt, processing, and collection time is
constant, the average collection period tells the firm, on
average, when its customers pay their accounts.
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59. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
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∗An aging schedule is a creditmonitoring technique that breaks
down accounts receivable into
groups on the basis of their time of
origin; it indicates the percentages
of the total accounts receivable
balance that have been outstanding
for specified periods of time.
60. Accounts Receivable Management:
Credit Terms (cont.)
∗To gain insight into the firm’s relatively lengthy
—51.3-day—average collection period, Dodd
prepared the following aging schedule.
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62. Management of Receipts and
Disbursements: Float
∗Float refers to funds that have been sent by the
payer but are not yet usable funds to the payee.
Float has three component parts:
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1. Mail float is the time delay between when
payment is placed in the mail and when it is
received.
2. Processing float is the time between receipt of a
payment and its deposit into the firm’s account.
3. Clearing float is the time between deposit of a
payment and when spendable funds become
available to the firm.
63. Management of Receipts and
Disbursements: Speeding Up Collections
∗Speeding up collections reduces customer
collection float time and thus reduces the firm’s
average collection period, which reduces the
investment the firm must make in its cash
conversion cycle.
∗A popular technique for speeding up collections
is a lockbox system, which is a collection
procedure in which customers mail payments to a
post office box that is emptied regularly by the
firm’s bank, which processes the payments and
deposits them in the firm’s account. This system
speeds up collection time by reducing processing
time as well as mail and clearing time.
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64. Management of Receipts and
Disbursements: Slowing Down Payments
∗Float is also a component of the
firm’s average payment period.
∗Controlled disbursing is the
strategic use of mailing points and
bank accounts to lengthen mail float
and clearing float, respectively.
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65. Focus on Ethics
∗ Stretching Accounts Payable—Is It a Good Policy?
∗ There are two negative ramifications of stretching accounts
payables (A/P).
∗ First, the stretching out of payables can be pushed too far, and a business
can get tagged as a slow-payer. Vendors will eventually put increasing
pressure on the company to make more timely payments.
∗ Stretching accounts payables also raises ethical issues. First, it may cause
the firm to violate the agreement it entered with its supplier when it
purchased the merchandise. More important to investors, the firm may
stretch A/P to artificially boost reported operating cash flow during a
reporting period. In other words, firms can improve reported operating
cash flows due solely to a decision to slow the payment rate to vendors.
∗ While vendor discounts for early payment are very rewarding,
what are some of the difficulties that may arise to keep a firm
from taking advantage of those discounts?
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66. Management of Receipts and
Disbursements: Cash Concentration
∗Cash concentration is the process used by the firm to bring
lockbox and other deposits together into one bank, often called
the concentration bank. Cash concentration has three main
advantages.
1. First, it creates a large pool of funds for use in making short-term
cash investments. Because there is a fixed-cost component in the
transaction cost associated with such investments, investing a
single pool of funds reduces the firm’s transaction costs. The
larger investment pool also allows the firm to choose from a
greater variety of short-term investment vehicles.
2. Second, concentrating the firm’s cash in one account improves the
tracking and internal control of the firm’s cash.
3. Third, having one concentration bank enables the firm to
implement payment strategies that reduce idle cash balances.
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67. Management of Receipts and
Disbursements: Cash Concentration (cont.)
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∗A depository transfer check (DTC) is an unsigned
check drawn on one of a firm’s bank accounts and
deposited in another.
∗An ACH (automated clearinghouse) transfer is a
preauthorized electronic withdrawal from the payer’s
account and deposit into the payee’s account via a
settlement among banks by the automated clearinghouse,
or ACH.
∗A wire transfer is an electronic communication that,
via bookkeeping entries, removes funds from the payer’s
bank and deposits them in the payee’s bank.
68. Management of Receipts and
Disbursements: Zero-Balance Accounts
∗A zero-balance account (ZBA) is
a disbursement account that always
has an end-of-day balance of zero
because the firm deposits money to
cover checks drawn on the account
only as they are presented for
payment each day.
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69. Personal Finance Example
∗Megan Laurie, a 25-year-old nurse, works at a hospital
that pays her every 2 weeks by direct deposit into her
checking account, which pays no interest and has no
minimum balance requirement. She takes home about
$1,800 every 2 weeks—or about $3,600 per month. She
maintains a checking account balance of around $1,500.
Whenever it exceeds that amount she transfers the
excess into her savings account, which currently pays
1.5% annual interest. She currently has a savings
account balance of $17,000 and estimates that she
transfers about $600 per month from her checking
account into her savings account.
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70. Personal Finance Example (cont.)
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∗Megan pays her bills immediately when
she receives them. Her monthly bills
average about $1,900, and her monthly cash
outlays for food and gas total about $900.
An analysis of Megan’s bill payments
indicates that on average she pays her bills
8 days early. Most marketable securities are
currently yielding about 4.2% annual
interest. Megan is interested in learning
how she might better manage her cash
balances.
71. Personal Finance Example (cont.)
∗Megan talks with her sister, who has had a finance
course, and they come up with three ways for Megan to
better manage her cash balance:
1. Invest current balances.
2. Invest monthly surpluses.
3. Slow down payments.
∗Based on these three recommendations, Megan would
increase her annual earnings by a total of about $673
($460 + $192 + $21). Clearly, Megan can grow her
earnings by better managing her cash balances.
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75. Review of Learning Goals
∗
Understand working capital management, net working
capital, and the related trade-off between profitability and
risk.
∗ Working capital management focuses on managing each of the
firm’s current assets and current liabilities in a manner that
positively contributes to the firm’s value. Net working capital is the
difference between current assets and current liabilities. Risk, in the
context of short-term financial decisions, is the probability that a
firm will be unable to pay its bills as they come due. Assuming a
constant level of total assets, the higher a firm’s ratio of current
assets to total assets, the less profitable the firm, and the less risky it
is. The converse is also true. With constant total assets, the higher a
firm’s ratio of current liabilities to total assets, the more profitable
and the more risky the firm is. The converse of this statement is also
true.
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76. Review of Learning Goals (cont.)
∗
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Describe the cash conversion cycle, its funding
requirements, and the key strategies for managing
it.
∗ The cash conversion cycle has three components: (1)
average age of inventory, (2) average collection
period, and (3) average payment period. To minimize
its reliance on negotiated liabilities, the financial
manager seeks to (1) turn over inventory as quickly as
possible, (2) collect accounts receivable as quickly as
possible, (3) manage mail, processing, and clearing
time, and (4) pay accounts payable as slowly as
possible. Use of these strategies should minimize the
length of the cash conversion cycle.
77. Review of Learning Goals (cont.)
∗
Discuss inventory management: differing views,
common techniques, and international concerns.
∗ The viewpoints of marketing, manufacturing, and
purchasing managers about the appropriate levels of
inventory tend to cause higher inventories than those
deemed appropriate by the financial manager. Four
commonly used techniques for effectively managing
inventory to keep its level low are (1) the ABC system, (2)
the economic order quantity (EOQ) model, (3) the just-intime (JIT) system, and (4) computerized systems for
resource control—MRP, MRP II, and ERP. International
inventory managers place greater emphasis on making sure
that sufficient quantities of inventory are delivered where
and when needed, and in the right condition, than on
ordering the economically optimal quantities.
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78. Review of Learning Goals (cont.)
∗
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Explain the credit selection process and
the quantitative procedure for evaluating
changes in credit standards.
∗ Credit selection techniques determine which
customers’ creditworthiness is consistent
with the firm’s credit standards. Two popular
credit selection techniques are the five C’s of
credit and credit scoring. Changes in credit
standards can be evaluated mathematically
by assessing the effects of a proposed
change on profits from sales, the cost of
accounts receivable investment, and baddebt costs.
79. Review of Learning Goals (cont.)
∗
Review the procedures for quantitatively
considering cash discount changes, other
aspects of credit terms, and credit
monitoring.
∗ Changes in credit terms—the cash discount,
the cash discount period, and the credit
period—can be quantified similarly to
changes in credit standards. Credit
monitoring, the ongoing review of accounts
receivable, frequently involves use of the
average collection period and an aging
schedule. Firms use a number of popular
collection techniques.
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80. ∗
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Review of Learning Goals (cont.)
Understand the management of receipts and
disbursements, including float, speeding up
collections, slowing down payments, cash
concentration, zero-balance accounts, and investing
in marketable securities.
∗ Float refers to funds that have been sent by the payer but
are not yet usable funds to the payee. The components of
float are mail time, processing time, and clearing time.
Float occurs in both the average collection period and the
average payment period. One technique for speeding up
collections is a lockbox system. A popular technique for
slowing payments is controlled disbursing.
∗ Zero-balance accounts (ZBAs) can be used to eliminate
nonearning cash balances in corporate checking accounts.
Marketable securities are short-term, interest-earning,
money market instruments used by the firm to earn a
return on temporarily idle funds.
81. Further Reading
∗ Gitman, Lawrence J. and Zutter ,Chad
J.(2013) Principles of Managerial
Finance, Pearson,13th Edition
∗ Brooks,Raymond (2013) Financial
Management: Core Concepts ,
Pearson, 2th edition
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