Butler Lumber Case Study I. Statement of Financial Problem Butler Lumber Company‚ a growing profitable business has exhausted its credit limit and the key issues facing it are: 1. Need for additional funds to continue the growth 2. Need to consolidate debt 3. Need to improve cash flexibility. In this case study I will be discussing following problem: Why has Butler Lumber been profitable in the increasing volume of sales but at the same time it is experiencing cash difficulties
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Butler Lumber After thorough review and analysis of Butler Lumber’s financial reports‚ I believe that it is in the best interest of Northrup National Bank to not only approve the requested $465‚000 loan‚ but look to increase the loan amount. A review of the 5 C’s will show in more detail the decision to approve this loan: 1. Capacity/Cash Flow: Butler runs a lean operation that has allowed them to have success due to competitive pricing. They have met their financing needs by increasing
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Clarkson Lumber Company Solutions Questions: 1.What problems does Clarkson Lumber face? 2.Why does Mr. Clarkson have to borrow money to support this profitable business? 3.Is a line of credit of $ 750‚000 sufficient to meet the firm’s future financial needs? 4.As a banker‚ would you approve Mr. Clarkson’s loan request‚ and if so‚ what conditions would you put on the loan? 1. The Problem Defined: The Clarkson Lumber Company has been expanding rapidly for several years. Increases in working
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Analysis of “the lumber room” by H. Munro The text under analysis is a short story by a British novelist and short-story writer Hector Hugh Munro who was born in Akyab‚ Burma when it was one of the parts of the British Empire 1870‚ he was killed on the French front during the first world war in 1916‚ he is better known by the pseudonym Saki‚ and he is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Beside his short stories‚ he wrote a full-length play‚
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I. Overview and Introduction The Clarkson Lumber Company is a classic case of a small‚ private company rapidly growing and not having a sufficient cash flow to sustain operations with the increase in expected future sales. First‚ there needs to be an analysis of the events and strategies that have been implemented which affect the company’s financials. The owner‚ Keith Clarkson‚ bought out his partners “interest” in the company by issuing a note of $200‚000 at 11% interest. The owner issued
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Butler Lumber Company Background: Butler Lumber Company had been founded in 1981 in a suburb of a large city in the Pacific Northwest. The company s operations were limited to the retail distribution of lumber products. Their typical products included plywood‚ moldings‚ and sash and door products. Despite good profits Butler Lumber Company experienced a shortage in cash and found it necessary to increase its bank loans. Issues: y y Why does a Profitable company such as Butler Lumber need external
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Pre-work for Clarkson Lumber Prof. Ben J. Sopranzetti 1. Do a Porter’s five forces analysis for Clarkson Lumber. 2. Do a SWOT analysis for Clarkson Lumber. 3. Think about how each of the factors in the Porter and SWOT analyses affects the expected cash flows‚ the risk of those cash flows‚ and the timing of the cash flows. 4. Why does the firm have to borrow so much money to support this profitable business? Where is its money going? Try your hand at doing a funds flow statement. 5
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Case Study Analysis: Jess Westerly at Kauflauf GmbH Geethanjali Ramesh Northeastern University Date: 03- 13-2016 CMN 6000: Introduction to Organizational Communication Summary Jess Westerly is the assistant product owner of CRM applications for computer and office supply wholesalers and retailers at Kauflauf. It is a fast-growing provider of subscription enterprise software headquartered in Heidelberg‚ Germany. Being new and outsider Westerly tries to implement a change in sales
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I. Introduction Clarkson Lumber Company has been in growth during recent years and anticipated a further increase in sales. Despite of consistent profits‚ the company has suffered shortage of cash and borrowed fund needed for its business growth. Question #1 Increasing amount of borrowing despite of its consistent profitability came from following reasons. First is the firm’s financial position. As sales have increased by 60% from 1993-1995‚ the assets that support increase of sales increased
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Nicholas who was trusted to his tyrannical and dull-witted aunt. One day Nicholas was “in disgrace”‚ so he made his Aunt believe that he was somehow trying to get into the gooseberry garden‚ but instead had no intention of doing so but did sneak into the Lumber Room. There a tremendous picture of a hunter and a stag opened to him. Soon his aunt tried to look for the boy and slipped into the rain-water tank. She asked Nicholas to fetch her a ladder but the boy pretended not to understand her‚ he said that
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