Post on 31-Mar-2020
Financing the Business
USQ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND
MBA - ACC5502
Accounting & Financial Management / S1 / 2015
M B G Wimalarathna
[FCA, FCMA, MCIM, FMAAT, MCPM, (MBA–PIM/USJ)]
Financing through WC Working Capital (WC) (in an entity) refers to the total funds invested in current assets. Concept of Net working capital (NWC) is a key component of working capital. NWC calculated by eliminating Total Current Liabilities from Total Current Assets.
WC CA NWC (CA - CL)
Managing suitable level of NWC is essential in following aspects. 1. Maintaining a healthy liquidity position. 2. To earn required return on assets. 3. Analyze cost & risk of short term funding.
Maintaining an appropriate level of NWC Appropriate level of NWC is the level at which entity able to meet its financial obligations without any delays.
Hedging
Many entities practice “hedging” in order to maintain proper level of NWC. Hedging is matching the maturity of the sources of funding with their use.
Keys for effective hedging;
NCA should be financed through permanent funding.
CA & other assets must financed through temporary funding.
Discussion:
Permanent Funding. (Maturity Period > 1year)
Temporary Funding. (Maturity Period ≤ 1year)
Spontaneous Funding. (Unplanned, Unstructured finance- can either permanent or temporary)
Managing the components of NWC
Cash & Cash equivalents
C/Assets Trade Debtors
Inventories
Accrued wages & taxes
Trade Creditors
C/Liabilities Bank Overdraft
Commercial bills & promissory notes
Factoring/Trade finance
Inventory loans or floor – plan finance
Management of Cash
An entity must manage its cash due to following;
Need to have sufficient cash
Timing of cash flows
Cost of cash
Cost of not having enough cash
The need to have sufficient cash An entity must always maintain sufficient level of cash balance in hand in order to meet its financial obligations.
When determining the level, trade-off between risk & return should taken in to consider.
Risk - inability to meet financial obligations.
Return - return get by making an investment.
The timing of cash flows
An entity must ensure the timing of its cash requirement.
Cash Sales
Collection of money from debtors
Mode of cash- Sale of assets (idle)
inflows Capital injections
Short-term Loans
Long-term Loans
Purchase of inventories
Purchase of Labor, R/M & other services
Mode of cash outflows Purchase of assets
Payment of taxes
The Cost of Cash
An entity might incur cost in following manner when managing its cash. Opportunity cost of (merely)holding money. Cost of providing physical Security.
The cost of not having (enough) cash
An entity requires money in order to meet its financial obligations. When entity not having sufficient cash, it may not pay the debt at required time which even affect to the going concern. (prone to wind - up the business in long run or even in short period)
Managing Trade Debtors
An entity must develop a sound system for the debtors’ management by addressing all key aspects. A Debtor create through the credit sales and following benefits and cost would involved; Enhance customer base Benefits Increase sales volume Attract new customers / markets Eliminate some cost of marketing & selling Opportunity cost of money Cost Bad & Doubtful debts Administration Cost(Handling, Collecting,
Recording)
Key factors of determining the suitable level of debtors within the entity.
Total Sales
Total Sales
Credit Sales
Trade Debtor
Credit Policies This refers to the internal policies & applications with respect to credit sales & trade debtors.
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Collection Policies & Procedures
An entity must develop a system which entails clear policies & procedures with respect to collection of money from the debtors. This might directly affect to bad/doubtful debtors and working capital coupled with the liquidity position of the entity.
The level of credit sales
As mentioned before, a trade debtor will create within the entity as a result of credit sales.
Inventory Management Inventory has become a most common and crucial element represents current asset in the entity. Inventory is essential for the continuous production process (especially in manufacturing entity) Raw Materials (RM) Form of Inventories Work in Progress (WIP) Finished Goods (FG) Benefits 1. Continuous Production - Sales - Profit 2. Retain & gain customers 3. Build good relationship with key players in the market 4. Create & maintain goodwill Costs 1. Ordering Costs ( Broker, Freight, Clearing) 2. Holding Costs - Storage Insurance Deterioration & Obsolescence Theft Financing Costs
Techniques available to manage the inventory. - Maintain minimum level of stock - Managing average turnover period - Economic order quantity (EOQ)
Maintaining a minimum stock level refers to the buffer stock keep by entity to make sure continuous operations.
Average turnover period = Average inventory held x 365/52/12 Cost of Sales EOQ = 2 Do H Where, D Total demand for given period O Ordering Cost H Holding Cost Q Quantity
Just in time (JIT) is the technique introduced by Japan (Toyota) through which entity able to produce goods by placing the orders for inventories as and when requirement arise only.
Sources of Short term funding - CL Accrued wages & taxes
Entity keeps its employees salary for the particular month as an accrual until end of month which indirectly treat as short term source of finance for the entity. Same in the event of GST and other indirect taxes.
Trade Creditors
Trade Credit is most common widely practice mode of short term funding in the business world. An entity purchases materials in the normal course of business while make the payment after 30 - 90 days. (not a norm) Average Settlement period = Avg. Trade Crs. x 365/52/12 Credit purchases
Bank Overdrafts
Bank Overdraft (OD) is a facility granted by a bank (commercial) exceeding the current account balance as a result of corporate relationship having with the company without pledging securities (in most cases).
Commercial bills & Promissory notes
Both commercial bills & promissory notes are also become popular within the business world through which borrower receives funds less than the face value, with the face value paid in maturity. Factoring & invoice discounting Factoring - Formal arrangement of handing over the debtors administration to third party. Invoice discounting - Sell the debtor/invoice and receives the discounted value of money. Pledging receivables - Pledge the debtor balances as a security to obtain finance facilities. Inventory loans or floor - Plan finance Obtain finance facility by pledging inventory as a security. Floor plan finance, involvement of three parties; the lender, the manufacture and the borrower.
Sources of Long - term debt finance
In addition to the various types of short term funding/finance mode discussed above, following long-term debt finance modes are also become popular within the business world.
Fixed rate business loans Variable rate business loans Installment loans Interest - only loans Fully drawn advances Leasing
In addition to above, following mode of finance also could be seen in the business world.
Corporate bonds Floating rate notes Debentures & unsecured notes
Hybrid Finance A Mode of finance which has characteristics of both debt & equity.
Convertible notes / debentures Convertible Preference Shares
Equity Finance Very popular strong mode of financing available for the entity. This could work either issuing ordinary shares or preference shares or both. In addition to above, entities tend to use rights issue and options also as a mode of financing.
International Sources of Funding International sources of funding occur when foreign investor make investments in the entity (within the local country). Both Direct & Portfolio investment could be seen in the practice.