...Financial Performance Management Discover how to invest in opportunities that allow you to control costs, determine the best strategy, and use real-time data to make immediate adjustments. o Make better financial decisions faster using real-time data o Cascade your strategy across all levels of the banking organization o Deliver accurate costing information to make more informed decisions Less • Risk and Compliance Management Proactively monitor risks and internal controls to align strategy and operations, improve predictability, and sustain profitable growth. o Access all data via other systems, resulting in fewer disparities and lower costs o Manage risk proactively across multiple business lines with on-time, compliant monitoring o Reduce costs and improve efficiency with simple, integrated reporting interfaces Less • Sustainability Set sustainability strategies and execute against your objectives of minimizing risk and improving opportunities. o Tap into data companywide with analytics, dashboard, and reporting - for easier compliance o Reduce energy consumption by consolidating IT assets o Minimize e-waste with sustainable sourcing, recycling, and contamination prevention Less • Customer Service Contact Center Effectively manage call center activities and connect with your entire banking organization. o Track customer requests through multiple channels, for more "one and done" tickets o Provide call agent scripting and knowledge management tools to up-sell...
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...A PROJECT ON STUDY OF CASH MANAGEMENT AT STANDARD CHARTERED BANK SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF BACHELORS OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES L S RAHEJA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND COMMERCE UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011 SUBMITTED BY: BINAY ROY PROJECT GUIDE: PROF. NAVEEN ROHATGI DECLARATION This is to certify that the project report ‘Study of Cash management at Standard Chartered Bank’ is submitted by me in partial fulfillment of the requirement of Bachelors of Management Studies in the academic year 2010-2011. The information it comprises of is true and original as per my research and observation. ----------------------------- Signature of the Student (Name of the Student) CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Mr. Binay Roy has completed the project ‘Study of cash management at standered chartered bank’ under the guidance of Prof. Naveen Rohatgi in the academic year 2010-2011 and has submitted the same to the University of Mumbai in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the Bachelors of Management Studies courses. -------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Signature of the Principal Signature of the Project Guide (Dr. Ms. M.B.Madlani) (Prof. Naveen Rohatgi) ------------------------------------------ Signature of the External Examiner. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would...
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...International Financial Management – 6E - 2011 Chapter 19 1. An effective cash management system should be based on a cash budget that projects expected cash inflows and outflows over some planning horizon. It provides for the orderly receipt and disbursement of cash. It also provides for funds organization, where cash shortages are covered by borrowing at the most promising rates and surplus funds are invested at the most beneficial rates. Within an MNC the complexity of the cash management process is compounded because the firm does business in a variety of currencies and the cost of foreign exchange transactions. is an additional measurement to be accomplished. 2. Under a centralized cash management system, the cash manager will have a global view of the cash necessities of the MNC. There will be less chance that funds will be misallocated, like, denominated in the wrong currency. Additionally, under a global view, transaction exposure for the MNC can be more professionally managed. A centralized system readily allows for investing excess cash at the most beneficial rates and borrowing to cover cash shortages at the most favorable rates. Under a decentralized system, the local cash manager is given more responsibility for managing the cash needs of the affiliate than under a centralized system. Consequently, the local cash management position serves as good training for higher level positions within the affiliate or MNC. Also, under a decentralized system, local bank...
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...engineering and high accuracy analysis. On the other hand, the Letsgo Travel Trailer Company is experiencing challenges with quality, cash flow and a performance review and reward system. This is happening due to lack of integrative planning across different functions. Each functional unit is trying to maximize their own performance, which in turn is hampering the overall performance. The current appraisal and reward system is increasing this isolated and non-cooperative working of the different functional units. ▪ The sales department to improve their sales want to have high finished goods inventory ▪ The production department wants to have high inventory of raw material to have uninterrupted production schedule. They are not interested in implementation of Just-in-time inventory methods to reduce the overall cost. ▪ The current control and reporting system does not provide enough good quality data to guide management decision process. For example, no record for work in process is kept in the company. ▪ The accounts department is making the budget without getting any information from functional units. This way the budgets are not realistic and reflect only an accounting necessity rather than a decision making and control tool. ▪ The cash management system of the company is not good and company is facing the cash management problems. Validity and Reasonableness of Letsgo’s Sales Projections: Table-1: Actual and Projected Sales Growth | ...
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...of New York and Henry C. Lucas, Jr. Graduate School of Business Administration New York University November 1986 Center for Research on Information Systems Information Systems Area Graduate School of Business Administration New York University Working Paper Series CRIS #I41 GBA #86-109 Center for Digital Economy Research Stem School of Business IVorking Paper IS-86-109 IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS ABSTRACT This paper presents a framework for the implementation of strategic information systems. The framework draws on past research on implementation and takes into account the unique circumstances of strategic applications. The framework is illustrated with a case study of a money-center bank's cash management system based on a microcomputer. microcomputer provides a powerful front end to the bank's traditional transactions processing system for a corporate treasurer who is a client of the bank. The impact of the The system appears to be positive and the framework offers one model for viewing the implementation of strategic systems. INTRODUCTION A 1982 paper proposed a classification of information systems into three different categories: those which support the business, applications which support strategic planning and s y s t e m s w h i c h a r e a p a r t of a f i r m ' s Turner, 1982). s t r a t e g y (Lucas and This third type of system has received a Books and great deal of attention in the past five years. papers...
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...easy as one two three. An interested owner that deals with selling of pharmaceutical products need determination to operate business, the guts to get it going, the power to motivate his employees and the financial commitment to make it happen. You should also be competitive, a positive thinker and a goal minded person in order for you to make the business successful. One of the ways to be successful in business is to manage the cash properly and wisely. Cash management is a marketing term for certain services offered primarily to larger business customers. It may be used to describe all bank accounts (such as checking accounts) provided to businesses of a certain size, but it is more often used to describe specific services such as cash concentration, zero balance accounting, andautomated clearing house facilities. Sometimes, private banking customers are given cash management services. Cash management is a broad area having to do with the collection, concentration, and disbursement of cash including measuring the level of liquidity, managing the cash balance, and short-term investments. If at...
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...primary focus for any business hoping to create sustainable growth. Lawrence Sports, a fictional company, is presently in need of capital management analysis and methodology overhaul. Included in this paper is a discussion of the issues, opportunities, values and solutions that the firm should be considering. The 9 step problem solution model is the format used to take the reader through critical identification, evaluation and implementation of elements that will transform a problem into new growth opportunity. Lawrence Sports is a $20 million dollar revenue company that assembles and distributes sporting goods. The focus of the scenario is to provide the opportunity for the student to develop solutions to trade off issues, thus establishing stability for the firm. Mayo, who is a retailer responsible for 95% of sales, is hindering Lawrence from paying raw materials suppliers. Unfortunately, this cash positioning problem is direct result of the Lawrence credit policy and the Mayo request to delay payment until the week of April 14-20. Borrowing money to deal with supplier payables is not an option, due to the $1.2 million dollar maximized bank limit. Therefore, this paper will strategize from the perspective of a financial manager who will turn a working capital problem into the chance to design a new credit policy, implement cash management models and introduce risk mitigation techniques. A credit policy that is too liberal will continue to cause damage to Lawrence Sports...
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...lending arrangements with banks, yet they add to the cost of financing for the borrower. Why, then, borrowers agree to such terms? What other types of alternative financing are available? The borrowers agree to such terms because they use the compensating balance to pay for non credit bank sources such as cash management services must major firms have now negotiated for banks to use the corporations collected funds for compensation and use fees to cover any short fall. The other types of alternative financing that available is letters of credit that common arrangement in International Finance, account receivable financing, a secured short-term loan that involks either the assignment or the factoring of receivables. Inventory loan, a secured short-term loan to purchase inventory. QUESTION 2 (15 MARKS) KKRE Company is producing customized cardboard boxes in a variety of sizes for different customers. The company currently has a cash balance of RM 8,000 and it plans to purchase a new machinery in the next month (November) at a cost of RM 50,000. In order to take advantage of the discount offered, purchasing of the machinery will be made in cash. KKRE maintains a minimum cash balance of RM 6,000 for unforeseen contingencies. Following is the information regarding company’ projected sales. | |August |September |October |November |December | | |RM |Rm ...
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...CHAPTER-1 1.1 INTRODUCTION The textile sector played a very important role in many developed /developing countries. In Bangladesh this sector has also contributed as well as still contributing towards the development of the socio-economic condition of the general masses. Textile industry has made substantial progress and has continued to contribute to the national economy, both by reducing imports and increasing exports. The existing scenario of the textiles sector is presented below: • Textile sector contributes around 38% of the industrial value addition and earns about 75% of the total export earni9ngs of the country. • Around 4.5 million workforces are engaged in the textiles sector of which 50% are poor women. • In the 1990’s value addition in the RMG (ready made garments) was 20% which by now stands at around 45%. • Around 25% of the total demand of the woven fabrics for the export oriented RMG is supplied by the local weaving mills & the 40% of the fabrics requirements of the cotton woven RMG exports are met by local mills. • 90% of the domestic fabrics and yarn requirements are met by our primary textiles sector (PTS). [SOURCE: Page: 21, annual report 2005, BTMA]. The primary textile sector (PTS) is meeting the major demand of yarn & fabrics of the local markets. In addition to that a significant part of the demand of fabrics of export oriented RMG units is being met by the PTS. With gradual increase in population and expansion of trade...
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...Header: Cash Flow Management Cash Flow Management Althea M Pullins BUS313 Professor Robert Filling 10/22/2011 A cash flow forecast can be a major problem for any business; it could be even more challenging for a startup company. A negative cash flow is a major problem for small businesses and can lead to bankruptcy. This unfortunate trend will continue due to a business owner’s neglecting the principle of cash flow management. Understanding and developing a cash flow forecast is a key to business success. Most entrepreneurs launch their business with insufficient cash to keep the company afloat. Cash management consists of forecasting, cash flow revenue, disbursement, revenues, and disbursement. In order to be effective in cash flow management an owner must control when a company will collect cash and pay it out. Understanding these steps is an important task because cash is the least productive asset that a company owns. A new enterprise must have enough cash to meet its obligations it a timely manner. Unfortunately many new business owners do not engage in effective cash flow management. Although cash flow management can be challenging it is not an insurmountable task. There are steps a new business owner can take. The first step is to understand business cash flow revenues by preparing cash forecasts that recognize estimated sales each month. The second step is to consider cash flow disbursement such as wages, rent, and supplier cash payment...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The study of the research entitled “A study on working capital management at MATHRUBHUMI PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD, CALICUT”. The details regarding the history, finance and inventory policies of the company were collected through discussion with the company officers. The secondary data collected from records, reports and profile of the company. Data analysis was carried out and findings are listed down. Suitable suggestions have been provided. The tools used in this study where Liquidity ratios, inventory turnover ratio, debtor’s turnover ratio, current asset turnover ratio, cash to current asset ratio, receivables to current assets ratio etc. were also used. Apart from it trend analysis is also used to have a look on the performance of the company. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction to the study The study is concerned with the analysis of working capital management of Mathrubhumi printing and publishing company limited, Kozhikode. The Mathrubhumi printing and publishing company limited is the publishers of the leading national daily in Malayalam-Mathrubhumi. Analysis of working capital management is part of financial analysis. The term financial also known as analysis and interpretation of financial statements’ refers to the process of determining the financial strength and weakness of a firm by establishing strategic relationship between the items of the balance sheet, profit and loss account and other operative...
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...responsibility for protecting and managing stockholder’s interests? A corporation’s top management has the ultimate responsibility of protecting and managing stockholder’s interests. There are essentially two groups responsible for protecting and managing the interests of stockholders being the Board of Directors and the top Management Team. However, the ultimately responsibility falls with the top management team, as they tend to be on hands-on in the daily operations of a business or a corporation. The top management team includes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Managing Director (MD), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and all the rest of the top managers and leaders of the organization. They should know what is going on and be held accountable for not reporting shortcomings, expectations, news, and so on in a timely manner to the Board and also to corporate shareholders. In a corporation, the responsibility of the board of directors comes in when they have to determine strategic plans and objectives together with the top management, as well as reporting what management will have achieved in managing the company. Shareholders on the other end are waiting for results since they are the ultimate owners of a corporation, and since they cannot run the company, they bestow the ultimate responsibility of protecting and managing the shareholder’s (stockholder’s) interests with management of the company, who are overseen by the board of directors. 5. What issue does agency theory...
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...AMALGAMATED TELECOM HOLDINGS LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES 2nd Floor Harbour Front Rodwell Road | Suva | Fiji Islands +679 330 8700 +679 330 8044 | AMALGAMATED TELECOM HOLDINGS LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES 2nd Floor Harbour Front Rodwell Road | Suva | Fiji Islands +679 330 8700 +679 330 8044 | 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Trends and ratios calculated for the historical years 2006-2010 has been fluctuating, indicating effects of elements such as global recession, devaluation of currency, political situation, slow economic growth and competition. A thorough analysis was done on the internal and external factors and duly taken into consideration when forecasting numbers for 2011 - 2015. For comparison, a sensitivity analysis is carried out to show the company performances during good times and bad times. Telstra Corporation Limited is taken as a benchmark due to its huge success in Australia. The trends show very positive results indicating management efficiency, asset efficiency and operations efficiency. ATH beta was calculated against the STRI values of the market and ATH. This was then used to determine WACC of the company. Beta was found to be 0.6 indicating ATH’s lower risk portfolio compared to the market. Required rate of return was calculated to be 9%. A discount factor of 7% was obtained, as the company has about 1:1 debt to equity funding. Some strategies used to arrive at forecast numbers...
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...Statements III. Deriving Historic Ratios, Trends and Variables IV. Financial Statement Projections V. Integration of Financial Statement Projections / Revolver Modeling 2 Introduction Uses for Financial Models in Investment Banking and Private Equity Investment bankers and Private Equity Professionals often must create financial models that illustrate historic financial statements along with integrated income statement, balance sheet and cash flow projections for evaluating various types of transactions such as: Sale of the Company Merger of the Company Public or Private Placement of new capital (bank loans, high yield issue, IPO or secondary equity offering, private equity or debt placement, etc.) Leveraged buyouts / Management buyouts Restructuring / Bankruptcy In these cases, the associate or analyst is expected to construct the financial model with guidance from the management team on assumptions and projections. Typically, the associate and analyst are responsible for “running the model”, including the ability to run base-case, upside, downside and alternate capital structure scenarios. For pitches and other cases where there is no access to the management team, projections from research reports (equity research reports, high yield research reports, credit rating agency reports, etc) can be used. 3 Introduction Tips for Setting Up the Financial Model Keep historic and projected income statement, balance sheet and cash flow on same worksheet Have Historic Ratios...
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...1.1-EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ratio analysis is the most important tools for measuring the organization financial performance. A good analyst must use different ratios as a mechanism for evaluating the organization’s performance which is helped the investors to take a better decision of their investment. In our term paper, this report is an assigned job as a partial fulfillment of course requirement by honorable Course teacher Shaikh Masrick Hasan, Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty, ASA University Bangladesh. It is the optimum aggregated outcome of 7 pupils’ about “Ratio Analysis of Square Pharmaceuticals Limited”. The goal of this report is to measure the overall financial performance of Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a renowned company in Bangladesh. It is a flagship company in the pharmaceutical industry which has reached this mountain of success by fighting many potential competitors. The main objectives are to conduct transparent business operation based on market mechanism within the legal & social frame work with aims to attain the mission. In the 1st chapter in our study paper in at first we tried to give the overall summary of our study paper, Scope or Origin of our study paper, the objectives, and problem statement of this study paper. In then we described the methodology through which we collected our required information. In 2nd chapter, we tried to give a brief idea about company profile like background information of the company, mission, vision...
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