business: Cartwright Lumber Company Nature of the business: Retail distribution of lumber products Overview The Cartwright Lumber Company had been found in 1994 as a partnership by Mark Cartwright and his brother-in-law Henry Stark. Later in 2001‚ Mr. Cartwright bought out Stark’s shares and incorporated the business. Now‚ Mr. Cartwright is a sole owner and president of the company. The business is located in the Pacific Northwest region and does the retail distribution of lumber products in the
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wages;suppliers‚ who want to be paid for goods or services; the government‚ which wants the firm to pay taxes; and creditors‚ who want to be paid interest and principal. Stakeholders may have interests that differ from those of the owners. When this is the case‚ they may exert pressure on management to make decisions that benefit them. We will return to these types of conflicts of interest later in the book. For now‚ though‚ we are primarily concerned with the overall flow of cash between the firm and its
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MenuItem 10: (Topic 10) Medium- to long-term debt Question 1: Manufacturer Limited is seeking a five-year term loan from its bank. The bank manager has indicated that a loan can be provided and will be priced at the bank’s base rate‚ plus a margin. Which of the following is not a determinant of the margin to be paid by the company? A: the debt to equity ratio of the borrower B: the borrower’s past loan-repayment performance C*: the term structure of interest rates D: the assets available to
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FACTS: OL‚ an LLC‚ is reimbursing their mechanics for the cost of their training. If the mechanics have to travel‚ OL will reimburse their meals and lodging. OL will also reimburse the mechanics for any purchased tools necessary for the business. Each employee is eligible for a maximum reimbursement of $2‚000 and must submit documentation to OL to receive the reimbursement. ISSUES: Are OL new polices on the reimbursement of tools and training deductible as equipment and training expenses under
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Clarkson Lumber’s Company Case Analysis Part 2 GROUP A: ANA GABRIELA SOTILLO JOHNSON FABIAN FREIHERR VON ROSEN IMRE IGNACIO SZAPARY GIL-CASARES RAYAN SEIF STEFAN RADISAVLJEVIC VERENA RIEDHART YANIS ALEM IE business School Section 4 September 2014 Question 1. How attractive is it to take the trade discounts? In order to determine how attractive it is to avail the trade discounts‚ Clarkson should calculate his annualized interest rate which he can get in return if he avails the trade
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Chapter IX. The French Revolution pp. 361-415 France “replaced the ‘Old Regime’ with ‘modern society‚’ and at its extreme phase it became very radical‚ so much so that all later revolutionary movements have looked back to it as a predecessor to themselves.” The French Revolution occurred in the most advanced country of the day‚ the center of the Enlightenment. It was the most powerful‚ wealthy nation in Europe. It had the largest population (24 m) under one government. Paris was smaller than
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the forestry land. softwood lumber is the one of the biggest export products of Canada valuing at 8.6% of total exports. Canadian softwood lumber is sold to united stated below the production cost. Due to market distortions in Canada encourage the government to overproduction of lumber‚ uneconomic decisions by lumber producers‚ and dumping of lumber in us. The US markets were bombarded with profit loss due to the cheap lumber from Canada; therefore the start of lumber dispute began. There has been
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Clarkson Lumber Case FIN 4422-002 Spencer Ely September 22‚ 2011 Clarkson Lumber appears at first glance to be a healthy‚ successful company with increasing sales and rapid growth. Clarkson Lumber has relatively low operating cost‚ allowing them to give competitive prices‚ which results in their increasing sales. However‚ even with continual increases in sales‚ Clarkson Lumber has a constant cash flow problem that can be credited to several factors with the result of looking for additional
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RECOMMENDATION I recommend that Cartwright Lumber should extend a line of credit up to maximum amount of $465‚000 by Northrop National Bank. However‚ it should be taken some additional measures. In addition‚ Cartwright should develop a sustainable business strategy. These strategies based on extended and ongoing retail distribution‚ hiring sales representatives for telephone ordering and restructuring of sales department. As a result of this will be expected an improvement in enter and the target
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hult international business school | Clarkson Lumber Company | | | Adeeb Valiulla | 1/3/2011 | | Summary Experiencing rapid growth in business and generating fairly good profits‚ Mr. Keith Clarkson the sole owner and president of The Clarkson Lumber Company still faced a shortage of cash and found it necessary to increase his borrowings‚ he was therefore on a look-out to start off a new banking relationship where he could not only borrow a larger loan amount but also one that
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