The document discusses various financial planning tools used to manage cash, receivables, and inventory, including sales budgets, production budgets, cash budgets, projected financial statements, days of inventory, days of sales outstanding, cash conversion cycle, and days of payable outstanding. These tools help forecast sales, production levels, cash flows, and working capital needs to effectively plan and monitor a company's financial performance and position.
The document discusses various financial planning tools used to manage cash, receivables, and inventory, including sales budgets, production budgets, cash budgets, projected financial statements, days of inventory, days of sales outstanding, cash conversion cycle, and days of payable outstanding. These tools help forecast sales, production levels, cash flows, and working capital needs to effectively plan and monitor a company's financial performance and position.
The document discusses various financial planning tools used to manage cash, receivables, and inventory, including sales budgets, production budgets, cash budgets, projected financial statements, days of inventory, days of sales outstanding, cash conversion cycle, and days of payable outstanding. These tools help forecast sales, production levels, cash flows, and working capital needs to effectively plan and monitor a company's financial performance and position.
The document discusses various financial planning tools used to manage cash, receivables, and inventory, including sales budgets, production budgets, cash budgets, projected financial statements, days of inventory, days of sales outstanding, cash conversion cycle, and days of payable outstanding. These tools help forecast sales, production levels, cash flows, and working capital needs to effectively plan and monitor a company's financial performance and position.
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Tools in Managing Cash,
Receivables, and Inventory
Sales Budget • The most important account in the financial statement in making a forecast is sales since most of the expenses are correlated with sales. External and Internal factors should be considered in forecasting sales: INTERNAL EXTERNAL • Gross Domestic Product • production capacity (GDP) growth rate • man power requirements • Inflation • management style of • Interest Rate managers • Foreign Exchange Rate • reputation and network of • Income Tax Rates the controlling stockholders • Developments in the • financial resources of the industry company • Competition • Economic Crisis • Regulatory Environment • Political Crisis Production Budget • A production budget provides information regarding the number of units that should be produced over a given accounting period based on expected sales and targeted level of ending inventories.
• Required production in units = Expected Sales + Target Ending
Inventories - Beginning Inventories Cash Budget
• For a business enterprise, having the right amount of
cash is important since cash is used to make payments for purchases, for operational expenses, to creditors, and for other transactions. • - The cash budget forecasts the timing of these cash outflows and matches them with cash inflows from sales and other receipts. The cash budget is also a control tool to monitor the way the company handles cash. Projected Financial Statements
• Projected financial statements is a tool of the
company to set an overall goal of what the company’s performance and position will be for and as of the end of the year. It sets targets to control and monitor the activities of the company. ‣ Projected Income Statement ‣ Projected Statement of Financial Position ‣ Projected Statement of Cash Flows Financial Planning Tools and Concepts Days of Inventory
• or inventory conversion period or average age of
inventories, is the average number of days to sell its inventory Days of Inventory = 365 (or 360 days) / Inventory Turnover
• Inventory Turnover = Cost of Goods Sold
Beginning Inventory + Ending Inventory 2 Days of Inventory = Average Inventory/ Average COGS per day Days of Sales Outstanding
• the average time for the company to collect its receivables
Days of Inventory =360 (or 365 days) / Receivable Turnover
Receivable Turnover = Net Credit sales
Beginning and Ending Accounts Receivables/2 Cash Conversion Cycle
• also called the net operating cycle
• The Cash Conversion Cycle is the length of time it takes for the initial cash outflows for goods and services purchased (materials, labor, etc.) to be realized as cash inflows from sales (cash sales and in the collection of receivables). operating cycle less days of payable. Cash Conversion Cycle = Operating Cycle - Days of Payables Cash Conversion Cycle = (Days of Inventory + Days of Receivables) - Days of Payables Days of Payable Outstanding • is the average number of days for the company to pay its creditors. Days of Inventory = 365 (360 days) /Payable Turnover