...Management of Working Capital Case Study: George’s Trains BUS650: Managerial Finance Stanley Atkinson Khrista Richards May 4, 2015 In this assignment I will be looking at the business that George started. He is coming to us for financial advice on his working capital practices. I will describe his working capital practices, including his methods of capital budgeting analysis techniques. Also I will analyze the potential pitfalls in his capital budgeting practices that George should be aware of. Then I will develop a simple statement of cash flows for George’s Trains using any information gleaned from the video. I will also look at what areas of improvement that I recommend. George started a model trains business with his sons. It started off as a hobby for him and grew from there into a business that does minor repairs for customers and hobby shops. George had no capital to invest in the business since he has worked for another company for so long. He only had a good relationship with his bank and was able to purchase the business from someone else and buy additional inventory. The bank found that they needed to make a capital investment in George’s Trains. The building for the shop was owned by someone who wanted to terminate the lease but George was able to buy the building for himself. He did not want to lose his customers that he had acquired while at this shop. To get this loan from the bank, George needed to make sure he was watching his spending in order to maintain...
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...Introduction In the field of trade and commerce, being able to invest and buy appropriate technology or acquire another company is not an easy task. What is the financial performance and position in terms working capital management of the selected hospitals in Cagayan de Oro City for the past five years (2005-2009). This research study deals primarily with the assessment of profitability, liquidity and working capital management of the privately - owned hospitals in Cagayan de Oro City that submit a complete set of financial statements in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Determining the relationship of the following variables: Profitability, Liquidity and Working Capital Management are needed to assess the Working Capital Management...
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...Case Study of Dell’s Working Capital Jianduo Guo, Shihao Qi, Michael, Yitsik 1. Big picture: With or Without external financing to meet the need of rapid growth Timeline of Dell is showed as follows: Calendar Year Fiscal Year Note 1990 1991 Expand indirect distribution channels 1993 1994 August: loss from sell-off of excess inventory September: growth to liquidity & profitability 1994 1995 July: exit low margin indirect channel 1995 1996 Inventory control, notebook market, new tech 2. Analysis Benefit and Cost of just in time manufacturing system Thanks to just in time manufacturing system, Dell built its brand as an efficient and flexible company which keeps pace to leading technology. As Dell’s competitive advantages, this system benefits Dell a lot, along with some costs and limits. Internally, in time manufacture lowers inventory, which benefits in many ways. Smaller amount of inventory takes less space for storage, thus lower the PP&E. And computers are easy to depreciate just like groceries, so less inventory leads to reducing expenses of depreciation. Also, it shortens DSI and then indirectly shorten Dell’s CCC performance, benefiting its liquidity. In addition, this enables Dell to simplify its supply chain by cutting off some suppliers. This system at the same time brands Dell as a flexible company to the customers. Without the burden of large amount of inventory, Dell is able to shift flexibly...
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...Performance Case Study FIN 320 Week 2 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 2 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 3 Assignments from the Readings FIN 320 Week 3 Individual Assignment Working Capital Management Paper FIN 320 Week 3 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 3 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Working Capital Case Study FIN 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Utilizing the TVM Simulation Summary FIN 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Cost of Capital Memo FIN 320 Week 4 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 4 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment International Risk Paper FIN 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment Financial Intermediaries Paper FIN 320 Week 5 Team Assignment Capital Investment Decisions Case Study and Presentation FIN 320 Week 5 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 5 DQ 2 Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of FIN 320 Entire Course in order to ace their studies. FIN 320 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this Click here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/fin-320-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM FIN 320 ENTIRE COURSE FIN 320 Week 1 Individual Assignment Ethics Article Analysis FIN 320 Week 1 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 1 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 2 Assignments from the Readings FIN 320 Week 2 Team Assignment Financial Performance Case Study FIN 320 Week 2 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 2 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 3 Assignments from the Readings FIN 320 Week 3 Individual Assignment Working Capital Management Paper FIN 320 Week 3 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 3 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Working Capital Case Study ...
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...FIN 320 Entire Course (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com FIN 320 Week 1 Individual Assignment Ethics Article Analysis FIN 320 Week 1 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 1 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 2 Assignments from the Readings FIN 320 Week 2 Team Assignment Financial Performance Case Study FIN 320 Week 2 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 2 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 3 Assignments from the Readings FIN 320 Week 3 Individual Assignment Working Capital Management Paper FIN 320 Week 3 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 3 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Working Capital Case Study FIN 320 Week 4 Individual Assignments from the Readings FIN 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Utilizing the TVM Simulation Summary FIN 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Cost of Capital Memo FIN 320 Week 4 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 4 DQ 2 FIN 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment International Risk Paper FIN 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment Financial Intermediaries Paper FIN 320 Week 5 Team Assignment Capital Investment Decisions Case Study and Presentation FIN 320 Week 5 DQ 1 FIN 320 Week 5 DQ 2 ________________________________________________ FIN 320 Week 1 Individual Assignment Ethics Article Analysis (UOP Course) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Locate an article regarding ethics considerations in financial management. Write a 350- to 700-word article analysis in which you address the following items: • Discuss how ethics affects the financial decision-making process. • Explain...
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...indicate whether a company can continue without going concern problem. Working capital is subtractive between current assets and current liabilities, and it is helpful to increase firm’s profitability in the short term but taking a risk of insolvency. Manager of a firm are desired to find a balance between liquidity and profitability to improve cash flow and maximize shareholder’s wealth. As soon as a company starts to run its business, it comes the decision and strategy about how much cash or inventory should be hold, how to financing and investing funds, how much debt to take and how long for the payment periods. Those decisions have serious influences on business cash flow and profitability. The Meaning of Working Capital The way to calculate working capital is: Working capital = Current Assets – Current Liabilities “Current assets may include inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods, trade receivables, short-term investments and cash, while current liabilities may include trade payables, overdrafts and short-term loans.” (See table 1) “Working capital is the result of subtracting current liabilities from current assets. It is a measure of a company's solvency, its capacity to make large purchases and take advantage of bulk discounts, and its ability to attract customers by offering advantageous credit terms” (Conrad Carlberg, April 2, 2008) “Net working capital represents the excess of current assets over current liabilities and is...
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...COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN CONVENTIONAL AND ISLAMIC BANKS OF BANGLADESH Banks conventionally fulfill the supreme responsibility of being a financial intermediary between the deficit and surplus unit of the economy. Liquidity risk refers to the excessive transaction cost, excessive loss of value and excessive exertion of time that banks have to face at the time of allocating liquidity to the third party when stipulated. Because of the unique constitutional features and regulatory conformity with the Shariah principle Islamic banks have to exert much more to manage liquidity. The core objective of this very research is to assess the extent of liquidity risk associated with financial institutions especially banks and to evaluate the concurrent liquidity risk management (LRM) along with a comparative analysis between conventional and Islamic banks of Bangladesh. The researcher has tried to investigate the significance of firm's size, net working capital, return on equity, capital adequacy and return on assets on liquidity Risk Management in case of Conventional and Islamic banks of Bangladesh. Secondary data had been the major stimulus of the research covering five year 20062010. For Islamic banks, a model estimation to predict the liquidity risk level was proven to be successful but the module failed to generate the desired result in case of the conventional banks. Moreover, net working capital in case of Conventional banks and size of the business in case of Islamic...
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...Impact of Working Capital Management on Profitability 1 IMPACT OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ON PROFITABILITY Impact of Working Capital Management on Profitability of Textile Sector of Pakistan Sumaira Tufail Hailey College of Commerce University of the Punjab, Lahore Sumaira_08sep@yahoo.com This paper has been presented in the organized by School of Business and Economics University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan This paper has been included in the conference proceedings with good intentions, where the conference and its organizers are not liable at all for the contents of this paper and / or any part of it. For more information about the conference please visit the conference website: http://cgr.umt.edu.pk/icobm2013/index.html or write the organizers at icobm@umt.edu.pk Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Business Management (ISBN: 978-969-9368-07-3) Impact of Working Capital Management on Profitability 2 ABSTRACT Working capital can be considered as source of existence for a financial body and management of working capital is regarded as one of the most essential part of business management. This study aims to find out the impact of working capital policies on profitability. Return on assets is used as a measure of profitability. Current assets to total assets ratio is used to compute the investment policy of working capital management and to determine financing policy of working capital management current liabilities to total assets ratio...
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...htm Working Capital Management and Corporate Performance of Manufacturing Sector in Pakistan Abdul Raheman PhD Scholar, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Islamabad & Asst. Professor, University Institute of Management Sciences PMAS-Arid Agri. University Rawalpindi E-mail: abdulrehman@uaar.edu.pk Talat Afza Professor & Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, COMSATS Lahore, Pakistan E-mail: talatafza@ciitlahore.edu.pk Abdul Qayyum Professor / Registrar, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad E-mail: abdulqayyum@pide.org.pk Mahmood Ahmed Bodla Professor & Director, COMSATS Sahiwal, Pakistan E-mail: director@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Abstract Working capital management plays a significant role in better performance of manufacturing firms. This paper analyzes the impact of working capital management on firm’s performance in Pakistan for the period 1998 to 2007. For this purpose, balanced panel data of 204 manufacturing firms is used which are listed on Karachi Stock Exchange. The results indicate that the cash conversion cycle, net trade cycle and inventory turnover in days are significantly affecting the performance of the firms. The manufacturing firms are in general facing problems with their collection and payment policies. Moreover, the financial leverage, sales growth and firm size also have significant effect on the firm’s profitability. The study also concludes that firms in Pakistan are following conservative working capital management...
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...A Project Report Entitled Study of Working Capital Management of Jain Irrigation System Ltd. (JISL) Submitted in partial fulfillment of Post-Graduate Degree Master in BusinessAdministrat ion TO University of Pune -: Submitted By:- Santosh Deoram Watpad e -: The Research Guide:- Prof. Shekhar Paranjpe -:For The Academic Year:- 2007-09 INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. MET s Institute Of Management, BHUJBA L KNOWLEDGE CITY, MET League of Colleges, Adgaon, Nasik - 422 003 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It gives me immense pleasure to present this project report on Working Capital Management carried out at Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. In partial fulfillment of post-graduate course M.B.A. No work can be carried out without the help and guidance of various persons. I am happy to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to those who have been helpful to me in completing this project report. At the outset I would like to thank Mr. S.R. Gohil sir Head of Dept. (Accounts) for their valuable advice and guidance during my project completion, also MR. Jain Sir (Head of bill passing dept.) and Mr. M.C. Mangal sir (Head of SQC. dept.) for timely help concerning various aspects of project. I also thanks to all staff members of account department for help me to complete the summer internship program. I would be failing in my duty if I do not express my deep sense of gratitude to Prof. Shekhar Paranjpe sir without his guidance it wouldn t...
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...Report On “Study of assessment methods of working capital requirement” For “Bank of Maharashtra” Executive Summery IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO PRESENT THIS PROJECT REPORT ON WORKING CAPITAL FINANCE AT BANK OF MAHARASHTRA, CREDIT DEPARTMENT, HEAD OFFICE, PUNE. THE PROJECT WAS CARRIED OUT FROM 1ST JUNE 2007 TO 31ST JULY 2007. The main objective of the project was to study various types of working capital finance provided by banks. To know details the procedure of assessment of working capital finance extended by banks. Wheels of business cannot move without money. Availability of money is being limited and wants being unlimited. So procurement of fund is one of the important functions in commercial & non-commercial enterprises and utilizes it for maximization of business profits. Business enterprises need funds to meet their different types of requirements, i. Long-term requirement ii. Medium-term requirement iii. Short-term requirement Working capital requirement is the short-term requirement. Working capital is the investment needed for carrying out day-to-day operations of the business smoothly. Bank is one of the important sources of working capital requirement. Bank gives various facilities to the borrowers. In this project I have considered various banking facilities for the working capital finance to the industries. It covers almost important aspect relating to assessment & follow up of working capital finance....
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...quarter. Finally, it guides you through the calculation of NPV and other investment criteria we discuss in class. Although the case is from a privately-owned company in the US, it serves as an illustrative example on how we compute NPV, IRR, payback period, and profitability index in practice. This procedure could be applied (with appropriate adjustments) to other investment decision making by other forms of organizations, including households, publicly-traded companies, not-for-profit organizations, or governments, both in the US and elsewhere. Instruction 1. Read “New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting” case. The case can be purchased from Harvard Business School Press at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/19276442 You need to register on the site to create a user name if you do not already have one. After you register, you can get to the coursepack at any time by doing the following: 1. Visit hbsp.harvard.edu and log in. 2. Click “My Coursepacks”, and then click “Finance B”. 2. Excel file consisting of spreadsheets for Exhibits from the case is also available for download. 3. You should try to think about how to get the answer for each question below before diving to the hints provided in the study guide. 4. The study guide is mainly numerical financial analysis and do not contain all of the analysis you need in order to solve the case. In other words, going through...
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...degree of B.com Honours in Accounting & Finance under CalcuttaUniversity) ON WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY Name of the Candidate: Registration No. : Roll No. : 0498 Name of the College: Bhawanipur Education Society College Name of University: Calcutta University Submitted on: February 2013 SUPERVISED BY Name of the Supervisor: Name of the College: Annexure- I Supervisor's Certificate This is to certify that Ms. a student of B.Com. Honours in Accounting & Finance ofBHAWANIPUR EDUCATION SOCIETY COLLEGE under the University of Calcutta has worked under mysupervision and guidance for her Project Work and prepared a Project Report with the title “WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ” which she is submitting, is her genuine and original work to the best of my knowledge. Place: Kolkata Prof. Date: February, 2013 . Annexure- II Student's Declaration I hereby declare that the Project Work with the title “WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT”submitted by me for the partial fulfilment of the degree of B.Com. Honours in Accounting & Finance under the University of Calcutta is my original work and has not been submitted earlier to any other University /Institution for the fulfilment of the requirement for any course of study. I also declare that no chapter of this manuscript in whole or in part has been...
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...BETWEEN WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND PROFITABLITY OF LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN GHANA Agyemang Badu Ebenezer Lecturer, Department of Business Administration Presbyterian University College, Ghana Michael Kwame Asiedu Lecturer, Department of Business Administration Presbyterian University College, Ghana ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of working capital management on the profitability of companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Secondary data from the Ghana Stock Exchange on manufacturing companies within the Accra metropolis was used to examine whether working capital management influence the profitability of manufacturing companies in the country. The study found out that, the major component of working capital management such as inventory days, account payable and cash conversion cycle have influence on the profitability of manufacturing companies. The study recommended that, manufacturing companies should adopt efficient and effective ways of efficiently managing these components of working capital management. KEY WORDS: Working capital management, profitability, net operating profit 1.1 INTRODUCTION Working Capital Management has become very important in financial management because of its effects on the firm’s profitability, risk and consequently its value. There are several important reasons why the management of working capital is important to both small and large organisations. (Smith, 1980). A well designed and implemented working capital management...
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...hitherto was exclusively done using the traditional historical record based ratio analysis, with particular reference to the current ratio. To test the relevance and effectiveness of the three models, real life performance data were extracted from the annual reports of 7 quoted companies, analyzed using the three models and the results compared to show the strengths and weaknesses of each. The result revealed that the current ratio and the Z-score models suffer from many limitations including imprecision while the Relative Solvency Ratio combines the capability of an effective indicator with the precision required of a true predictor. Keywords: Solvency, Liquidity, Ratio Analysis, Bankruptcy, Performance, Relative Solvency, Working Capital, Current Ratio, Current Assets, Balance Sheet 1. Introduction It is a proven fact over and throughout the entire history of business entrepreneurship that the overall success and continued sustenance of a business enterprise depends largely on the solvency status of the business. With business dimension and diversification spreading and spanning over several frontiers in goods, services, size, culture, currency, clientele and geographical locations, it is important that an effective method...
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