Assignment 2: Working Capital Abstract In this paper I’ll analyze the fundamental differences between the working capital structures and components for Google and Oracle‚ and speculate upon the main reasons why such differences exist; how each company could improve its working capital positions. As a Wall Street Analyst who has to recommend one of the companies as an investment to a company’s clients; based solely on that company’s working capital; as an Investment Banker
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The Fundamentals of Working Capital Management Working Capital refers to the company’s current or short-lived assets. This includes cash‚ marketable securities‚ notes receivable‚ account receivable‚ inventories and other current assets. Non-current assets are referred to as capital assets. These are long-term assets and are mostly depreciable in nature. In evaluating an investment in capital assets‚ the future cash flows‚ the risk of those cash flows as well as the opportunity cost of the funds
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Working Capital Strategies for Starbucks Current (for fiscal year 2007 & 2008) Working Capital Management: 1. Working capital (WC) for year 2007 and 2008 are negative‚ primarily due to increased current liabilities from short term borrowings. These short term borrowings have been taken partly to repay previous year’s short term borrowing and partly to finance increased non-cash working capital. 2. Number of days of inventory is decreased for 63 to 55 days. This level of inventory implies
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FACTORS DETERMINING WORKING CAPITAL REQUIREMENT The working capital needs of a firm are determined and influenced by various factors. A wide variety of considerations may affect the quantum of working capital required and these considerations may vary from time to time. The working capital needed at one point of time may not be good enough for some other situation. The determination of working capital requirement is a continuous process and must be undertaken on a regular basis in the light of
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WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT OF Sathe Synthetics PROJECT REPORT Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Two year full time‚ Masters in Business Administration. By Karan veer Singh DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY PHAGWARA (2009-2011) Page 1 Acknowledgement Whatever we do and whatever we achieve during the course of our limited life is just not done only by our own efforts‚ but by efforts contributed by other people associated
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Dell working capital case Dell’s build to order system created a very different balance sheet. We want to assess their competitive advantage in working capital at the time of the case‚ evaluate how they funded growth at the time (1996) and evaluate potential ways to fund projected sales growth of 50% in 1997 through use of internal funds. 1. Calculate their working capital advantage. To do this calculate days sales of inventory‚ payable days and receivables days to find their cash conversion
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DECLARATION This is to certify that the project titled “Project Appraisal for working capital and term loan financing” is a bonafide work done by Mr. Nishit Chhabra‚ enrollment no : 09BSHYD0531‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements of MBA program and submitted to IBS‚ Hyderabad. I also declare that the project is a result of my own efforts and that has not been copied from anyone. This work was not submitted earlier to any other university or institute for the award of the degree. Nishit
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Working Capital Strategies By Forecasted If Microsoft forecasted revenue increase by 20 percent’s for the upcoming year‚ several parts of the annual report will be affected by the 20% increase forecast. First of all‚ the income statements will alter their revenues from 16‚195 million dollars to 19‚434 million dollars. Revenue is not the only thing that changes since there are other expenses that need to be changed. For example in the income statement‚ the operating expenses will not have
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Working Capital Simulation Richard Hughes FIN/571 January Nineteenth‚ 2015 William Stokes Working Capital Simulation Sunflower Nutraceuticals (SNC) is barely breaking even and is strategizing on methods improve its growth and cash flow through capital budgeting. This paper will discuss the decisions the CEO made in each area of the 3-phase process‚ and evaluate how the decisions affected SNC. The numbers in this analysis are in thousands. Background SNC provides dietary supplements to individual
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PGDIB SUMMER PROJECT 2006-2008 “Working Capital Financing to SMEs” AT The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited TABLE OF CONTENT INDEX TO CONTENTS PAGE NO. 1. Executive Summary 1 2. Introduction 2 3. Review of literature
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