3.1.10 Cash Budget The cash budget is “an estimation of the cash inflows and outflows for a business for a specific period of time. Cash budget are used to assess whether the entity has sufficient cash to fulfil regular operations and whether too much cash is being left in unproductive capacities”. (Reference 2) The cash budget is prepared in advance for the first 6 months, and a cash deficit of £20,364 and £2,228 were incurred in January and February. A second-hand bottling plant was purchased in January which cost £420,000. The business required £30,000 cash for working capital.
Walmart sells many items at ridiculously low prices. They are able to offer low prices on their items due to an incredible mark-up on imported products. Especially in today's economy, the buck is the big winner. Everyone wants to save money, and they can do that by shopping at Walmart, where many items are the lowest price in town, even if it's only by a few pennies. But consumers aren't helping their fellow countryman earn his own living by buying these imported items.
a) Prepare a cash budget for Sharpe covering the first seven months of 2004. b) Sharpe has $220,000 in notes payable due in July that must be repaid or renegotiated for an extension. Will the firm have ample cash to repay the notes? No, the firm will not have enough cash to pay the notes payable. Although there is enough ending cash if $200,000 is spent on the notes payable then there will be an insufficient amount to purchase raw materials or other expenditures. If the firm decides to use its cash for the notes payable it will then have to obtain financing to maintain the cash balance.
Introduction to Executive Tools for Decision Making TUI Financial Accounting ACC201 Introduction to Executive Tools for Decision Making APPLE Inc. The total amount of cash available for Apple to pay their current debts is $123.55 billion dollars in favor of assets. I derived this from Apple’s Assets $207 billion and subtracted their liabilities, which was $83.45 billion. I believe that Apple is in good shape due to the total assets the company has received. $207 – 83.45 = 123.55 billion Apple is increasing its investment in operations every year.
They also faced increased operational expenses of selling, general, and administrative costs by 0.49%. Perhaps the biggest impact on their profit margin is the cost of revenues that were associated with their sales, an increase of 0.92% which affected their EBITDA (Earnings before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortization). Overall, these show operating expenses as a key issue for the company as the operating income shrank by 2.72% in just a two year period. When analyzing the whole foods balance sheet in common size it shows they have been reducing their short term debt. In 2007, they reduced their current installments of long-term debt by 0.76%, accounts payable by 1.61%, and other current liabilities by 1.35% in just a year as portion of their Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity.
For much of the past 30 years, Social Security has run big surpluses, which the government has borrowed to spend on other programs. Now that Social Security is running deficits, the federal government will have to find money elsewhere to help pay for retirement, disability and survivor benefits. In the short term, Social Security is suffering from a weak economy that has payroll
This was intended to save both GM and Chrysler from bankruptcy which is did effectively, while also saving hundreds of thousands of jobs. What they don’t tell you is that the premature closing of many of their dealers actually led to the loss of more than 100,000 jobs as a direct result of this bailout. President Obama also claims on multiple occasions that the bailout has been fully repaid with interest but in all reality there is still some $25 Billon of the original $80 Billion that we will in all likelihood never get back. This has lead to a
General Electric Solution Guide r Case restatement: General Electric Corporation has affiliates in more than 100 countries around the world. The company has recently been concerned about the problem of meeting its accounts payable in euros, since the euro has been increasing in value over the last several years. While GE has extensive business throughout Europe, it is worried about the specific transaction in which € 50 million is payable to a materials supplier in 180 days from now. “Now” is July 28, 2011. Using exchange and interest rate data taken from the Financial Times as shown below, plus futures and options information below, what should GE do about its exchange risk?
Net income was $2,849 million in 2008, which was an increase of 2.2% over 2007. Also, in 2008 Target posted receivables at $8,651 million, which was a 28.03% increase over 2007. The 28 percent jump in receivables can be an indicator of rising credit risk impending on the retailer. Target is aggressively offering the Target Visa card as well as the Target Check card. The increase in receivables could be due to an increase in accounts with higher credit limits.
However, there is a problem that Costco has to deal with is that their profits mostly from its membership fees instead its net income. They are sometimes keeping the prices too low to compete with their competitor but this strategy has a disadvantage. They couldn’t make a lot of profit from the merchandises. Therefore, a recommendation needs to be given. They should utilize their space in each store efficiently.