Case: Clarkson Lumber Company Issues The issues that Mr. Clarkson should consider when analyzing the future of his business are: • Can the business support growing at such a high rate? • Is it a wise decision to continuing borrowing on an even higher line of credit? • Is the business making wise choices in regards to whom it sells to? Decision The business cannot support the current rate of growth much longer. Mr. Clarkson has no choice but to infuse the business with outside cash
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QUESTION 1 WHY HAS WILSON LUMBER BORROWED INCREASING AMOUNTS DESPITE ITS CONSISTENT PROFITABILITY? Although the company seems to be profitable‚ it has faced shortage of cash. It happened due to increase in Accounts Receivable as well as Inventories. On the other hand‚ Accounts Payable does not increase that rapidly and difficulties regarding cash collection become evident. Furthermore‚ the cash collection cycle becomes larger (59 days in year 2003‚ while more than 70 in year 2006). QUESTION 2
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Problem National Mutual Funds (NMF)‚ founded in the 1940s‚ is one of the most important mutual fund companies in the brokerage industry in the United States. The company has extended from a mutual fund company to a financial center offering mutual funds‚ brokerage products including stocks and bonds‚ insurance products‚ and a variety of planning tools to help customers save for major life needs. However‚ since the market downturn‚ which is hurting many brokerage and mutual fund houses‚ NMF’s profits
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Five Social Insurances and One Housing Fund Table of Content Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Successful of Shanghai in "Five social insurances one housing fund" 4 Chapter 3: Impacts on Employer 5 Chapter 4: Impacts on Employee 6 Chapter 5: Precautions of Human Resources Management 7 Reference 8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION "Five social insurances and one housing fund" was established under Labor Act Chapter 9 Article 73. It is used to serve the purpose on maintaining social harmony by protecting
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Q1-1. Why has Clarkson Lumber borrowed increasing amounts despite its consistent profitability? Because they have faced cash shortage trouble. Their profitability has grown for 1993 ~ 1995 period‚ as we can see from their I/S (e.g. Sales and Net Income‚ etc.). However‚ as its business size grows‚ their A/R increased‚ which means that it is getting difficult to collect cash. On the other hand‚ A/P decreased for the same period‚ which means that the company paid cash for A/P‚ resulting in critical
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SHORT-TERM FINANCING & SMEs Seminar Paper Presented to MPSTME‚ NMIMS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree (MBA-Tech) By Sameer Tayal 2012 Page | 1 Acknowledgement I am grateful to Mr. R. C. Agarwal the mentor of the Seminar Paper for giving me the opportunity to write a Seminar Paper on the topic “Short-Term Financing & SMEs”. I thank him for his suggestions & guidance throughout the Seminar paper with full attention and dedication. Page | 2 Abstract
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Short-Term Financing Short-term financing have some advantages that extend financial arrangements. Short-term funds interest rates are much lower than long-term funds. There are many different sources of short-term financing that companies use to better fit their business and budget. I will list and briefly explain the source and why a company may choose over the other. 1. Bad credit: offers secure and unsecure loans to a business. 2. Trade credit: a line of credit extended for 30 to 60 days
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Negotiation: Federal Science Fund Role: Turbo What issues are most important to you? (list in order of importance) 1. Funds for R&D 2. Ability to contribute value of each consortium 3. Future relationship with other firms What is your BATNA? Reservation Price? Target? My BATNA is $0 if the other two firms want to cooperate with each other and kick me out. My target is to cooperate with Stockman and get the fund of $440‚000 and split the fund between us two. Since Stockman
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The Impact of the European Structural Funds on the Greek Economy Professor Hugh McDonald 21 February 2007 Abstract: Despite of the tremendous amount of public aid to poor regions‚ relative movements in the distribution of income‚ labor productivity and employment rates across European regions show no positive relation with the distribution of the Structural Funds. Greece has been receiving structural funds from the European Union in accordance with the first objective
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Short Term Finance What is Short Term Financing? Short term financing is basically refers to additional money for a business which requires for running its business for short terms which is usually a period of one year. There are some sources of short term finance which are as following:- Overdraft Overdraft bank basically means a facility that the bank provides to its customers where the customer is given permission to draw money from the banks in surplus of their balance in their heir
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