This may have been for any number of reasons, however if this was cut simply to conserve cash it could result in slower growth in the long term. The cash and cash equivalents have grown by 348.2% which is alarming. This is an indication that the company is not investing their cash appropriately. This cash could have been invested in the aforementioned research and development to keep the business competitive in the long term. A few smaller points that are still worth mentioning are that the receivables have dropped 15%.
Why should organisations collect, file and maintain accurate financial records? To have a record of how the business is running. To determine how the business is sitting financially and to inspire different processes to assist in growing the business. It will also display what money is going where and whether there is any room for alterations in staffing, produce, and marketing. Basically, it is used to anaylse the business as a whole and per section and to determine performance.
The company’s proforma statements did not take into account any external factors such as a retail recession taking place. The amount of money invested in inventory is almost double what was forecasted for the nine-month period. Profit margin was only 10%, which was much lower than the forecasted 15-30%. By October of 1995 it should have been obvious to SureCut Shears that sales were not keeping up with what was forecasted causing inventory to build up. Conclusion: If Fischer wants to be able to repay his loan he needs to be more accurate
The p-value associated with it is .157 or approximately 16% this is higher than the acceptable 5% level. Looking at the 95 % confidence interval, the upper bound is .582 which implies that .55 is in the interval, and therefore the hypothesis that p=.55 cannot be rejected in favor of the claim. c) The average (mean) number of calls made per week by salespeople that had no training is less than 145. The number of salespeople without training in the sample of 100 is only 20, so the test statistic used is the T- statistic, which resulted in the conclusion that indeed the speculation is acceptable with associated p-value of .047 which is less than the set probability of .05. With regards the 95% confidence interval, the upper bound is 144.93 which means that 145 is not in the interval that leads us to reject that the hypothesis that the mean is equal to 145 in favor of the claim that it is less
The interest you receive on the first investment is $110 per year for three years. You receive $330 on the second investment in the third year and nothing in the first two years. If your discount rate is 6%, what should you pay for each of these investments? Present Value of #1 = $110 + $110 + $110 = $294.03 (1.06) (1.06)2 (1.06)3 Present Value of #2 = $0 + $0 + $330 = $ 277.07 (1.06) (1.06)2 (1.06)3 You will pay more for investment #1 b) You can make two different new products at your plant. Product #1 is expected to earn no profit in the first year, $500 in the second year and $1,000 in the third year.
This is because the increase in the collections of Accounts Receivable from customers is not sufficient to recover the total disbursements (variable production cost and the fixed cost). The disbursements are more than the accounts receivable from April onwards. This leads to a negative cash balance in April. This is the reason why the Medieval Company needed money in April. If the company had prepared a Profit Plan which included the cash budget at the beginning of the year itself, then the fact that money will run out by April could have been foreseen.
But the impact may not be very significant even if an average rate is taken. The effort required to estimate the inflation rate for each element may not justify the accuracy that may be obtained. If the understanding in the project is that sales and costs may increase by different values very different from the average inflation, then we may need to consider the inflation separately. Question 9 NPV $178,337 IRR 21.6% MIRR 17.6% ARR 28.5% Payback 2.56 years (The figures are from the attached file with Cell C38 = 4% and C39 =2% – sales inflation taken at 4% and cost inflation at 2%) Question 10 a. The NPV would decrease since the costs will be higher and the new NPV is $98,762 NPV $98,762 IRR 17.5% MIRR 15.2% ARR 22.2% Payback 2.76 years (The
PPG anticipated its full-year share repurchases to be at the high end of what they had originally projected. They also reported earnings per share from continuing operations to be $1.52, which included previously announced charges from restricting and nonrecurring costs. (About PPG, 2013) The health of the economy is critical for the company because its products are not primary products; so during a recession, people will choose to purchase items of more importance than maintenance products. This explains the big decline in revenues for 2012; this equates to a 14% drop compared to the previous year. Also, it can be seen the earnings per share were down by 12% and the return on average capital was down by 10%.
We can conclude that they use FIFO because the inventory amount increases through 06 in 65% and then decreases in 07 by -13%. The rise in prices in 2006 is the reason why the inventory is more expensive because the increase in purchases was not as big as the increase in inventory price. If they used LIFO the inventory in 2006 would not have
$30,000 of depreciation on the equipment used to manufacture the parts. c. The supervisor's salary of $25,000, which would be avoided if the part is purchased from an outside supplier. d. $15,000 in rent from leasing the production space to another company if the part is purchased from an outside supplier. status: correct (1.0) correct: b your answer: b feedback: Correct. ________________________________________ 2 The following information pertains to the Norfolk Company's three products: Product B's production is increased to 700 units per year but B's selling price on all units of B is reduced to $8.00.