"Working Capital Management" Please respond to the following: Examine the key reasons why a business may not want to hold too much or too little working capital. Provide two (2) examples that illustrate the consequences of either situation. The right level of working capital depends on the industry and the particular circumstances of the business. For example, businesses that only sell services, and do not need to pay cash for inventory need a lower level of working capital. Businesses that take a substantial amount of time to make of sell a product will need a higher level of working capital.
Banks focused mainly on making profits rather than regulations, so they did not pay premium for F.D.I.C. when they were in good time, then they suffered in bad time that they could not pay back. Bair asked the banks to pay premium and fund building. Basel II advocated banks to self-regulated, which made banks keep a low capital, thus Ms. Bair disagreed with Basel II and later facts of deeper crisis proved she was right. With regarding to bailout by several banks, Ms. Bair held different views from Geithner`s.
Allocating cost this way would not be accurate since DOP could not see the improvement in cost control from electronic order and desktop delivery. The company should use the ABC approach which is recognized costs by their activities and drivers for its pricing system. The cost drivers are used as bases to allocate costs to the product and thus would reflect more accurate product costs than using traditional cost pricing system. Table 1.1 Dakota Office Products: Income Statement CY2000 Sales | $42,500,000 | | 121.4% | ($42,500,000/$35,000,000) | Cost of items purchased | $35,000,000 | | 100.0% | ($35,500,000/$35,000,000) | Gross margin | $7,500,000 | | 21.4% | ($7,500,000/$35,000,000) | Warehouse personnel expense | $2,400,000 | | 6.9% | ($2,400,000/$35,000,000) | Warehouse
This would be important for accounts receivable - money that is owed by a customer for products/services. Representing a company in small claims court requires one to be familiar with the law and how it relates to accounting practices. In the Mack v. Edenwold Fertilizer Services Ltd. case, if Mack had a knowledgeable accountant that was familiar with the law, he may have been advised not to sue as the illegality of the situation would have resulted in a loss. In turn, this advise would have saved Mack both time and
Financial Analysis A company’s strengths and weaknesses are better understood by their financial statements such as Income Statement, Cash Flow statement, and Balance sheet. As Financial consultants, our goal is to help CanGo understand their financial statements and where CanGo needs to improve to gain the competitive edge in the market. Every company needs to understand their own financials before analyzing the market or industry. After analyzing CanGo’s efficiency ratios, we found them to be very un-attractive for investors. For example, CanGo has a very high receivables turnover rate.
401(K) has become ineffective because of the corruption of big business, the misunderstanding of and as a result a mishandling of the 401(K) accounts, and its correlating dependency on the market’s success. Making profit is important to people. Most of all, improving the bottom line is the primary objective for major companies. “For Robert Shively, learned that his employer, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, or also-known-as Oxy Pete,” wanted to forgo the guaranteed-employer pension plans for the less demanding 401(K) system where it is based on contributions from employee’s pay rather than from the employer’s profit. This forces the employee to save without any effort but, due to this, workers began to neglect the social security and entirely dropped the use of the original pension plan.
In the next chapter we learn how sellers set the prices in which we pay for an item, why things cost what they do and not what they are worth. The key to prices are sellers that can sell their products as close to the cost of making the item. In a regular market, prices are the key. Businesses cannot afford to charge a higher price, customers are normally looking for a lower price and the lower the better, in today’s economy. Many customers ask the question, “What affects prices?” We learn that things happen beyond the sellers’ and buyers’ control to raise and lower prices in today’s market.
Floating point numbers can introduce rounding errors in the banking industry, which may lead to financial benefit for the bank but not for the customer. Analyze the ethics of knowingly benefitting from rounding errors. Propose a plan on how the rounding error should be handled. 7. Differentiate between the exponential format and the floating point format in terms of: * Format * Processing speed *
The organization may use the information in the cash flow report to assess the effectiveness of operations. Cash flow from funding activities. The cash flow statement is one of the most important, but often overlooked, of a firm’s financial statements. In its entirety, it lets an individual whether he or she is an analyst, customer, credit provider, or auditor learn the sources and uses of a firm’s cash. Without proper cash management and regardless of how fast a firm’s sales or reported profits on the income statement are growing, a firm cannot survive without carefully ensuring that it takes in more cash than it sends out the door.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Would Help America to Maintain a Stable Banking System US Banking History - Prosperity and Panics Boom - In the 1920s, the US economy was in prosperity. The prosperity increased deposits, thus giving banks the opportunity to increase their assets. Banks also increased their security holdings and loans to individuals. Great Depression - During the 1930s, the U.S. and the rest of the world experienced a severe economic contraction. The massive series of bank runs in early 1933 caused 4,004 banks to close, with an average of $900,000 in deposits loss.