Custom Snowboards Inc. Managing Capital & Financial Assets 05/10/2014 WGU JET2 Financial Analysis Task 5, Part II - PASSED To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Custom Snowboards Inc. Subject: Report of historical data and recommendation on how to proceed with expansion plans to Europe. European Expansion Historical Analysis To make a decision about expansion to Europe, we must first analyze past performance as an indicator about future performance. A historical analysis was completed on the company’s past balance sheets. Custom Snowboards Inc. has had increased net sales in the past three years. Net sales went up .23% in year 13 and .93% in year 14. Cost of goods sold (consisting of direct material, labor, and …show more content…
114.2% in year 13 and another 30.6% in year 14. Consistent increase shows well for the company but since sales went up 23% in year 13 and .93% in year 14, the cash should have increased more in year 14 however, furniture, fixtures, and equipment went up 200,000 which means the company purchased more assets for the company. Custom Snowboards is putting the money back into the company without taking on more debt which indicates a decent cost control. Custom Snowboards most likely took money from their short term investments to pay for the furniture. The short term investments dropped significantly in year 14 by more than 80%. This caused a decrease in total current assets but the overall total assets remained healthily increasing, partly due to increase in finished goods and raw materials inventory. Overall, Custom Snowboards uses respectable cost control in assets. Liabilities. Accounts and notes payable increased proportionately to the net sales increasing total current liabilities by the same proportions. Mortgage payable decreased consistently over the three years as did other long term liabilities. Overall, liabilities continued to decrease over the three year period. Stockholders Equity increased over the three year period. Common stock remained steady at $200,000 ($1 par) and so did paid in capital. Retained earnings increased every year, a plus for the bank. Return on total assets, return on common
The Corporation's performance metrics highlights three significances for raising shareholder value: returns, leverage, and growth. The Corporation's main concern of growth concentrate on sales through similar companies or club sales and unit square feet growth; the importance of leverage incorporates the Corporation's objective to raise its operating income quicker than the growth rate in net sales by increasing its administrative expenses, selling, and operating expenses, at a measured rate than the progression of its net sales; and the importance of returns emphasizes on how proficient the Corporation engage its assets through return on investment also, how efficiently the Corporation achieves working capital and capital expenditures through free cash flow. (See Figure
Her success has recently come in 2011. My plan is to open a second sleep study in San Antonio, Texas. Roxanne will continue to manage the center in Corpus Christ and will help me virtually manage the San Antonio location. Because Roxanne has the information needed to model her sleep center it will be much easier to open up my own sleep evaluation center based on her proposal.
After reviewing the Balance sheet I have a concern regarding the Current and short term liabilities. Creditors/ trade payable is payment yet to be made for goods already received, if this continues to rise then it will effect the business profit and less stock will have to be ordered so repayments can be made. Bank overdrafts also continued to rise and in the long-term the business will be paying greater interest, which will again eat into the profit. Both increased quite a great deal from the last year-end. If this continues then the business will get into bad debts and owe too much that it will end up having to sale its assets to survive. Finally I can see that due to the above issues and other issues the net current assets/ working capital has decreased so therefore the business is less value then it was a year ago. If the business is worth £1 million now, this could soon decrease within another year.
It seems that the company late in the year could have adjusted their approach to spend more in advertising in order to make up for the lag in net sales, this reaction to a decrease in sales is likely and could have helped get the company up to 3400 units sold for the year if they noticed a decrease in anticipated sales earlier in the year. Competition Bikes should have increased their budget for total advertising expenses in year nine to appeal more to the individual buys rather than the corporate sponsors in order to meet their sales goals. Transportation out was over budget by 2%, as with advertising expenses, anything over budget results in a loss of gross revenue for Competition Bikes. With a 3% decrease in total sales, there should have also been a 3% decrease in transportation out expenses as transportation out is a fixed delivery expense. Reasons for this unfavorable expense could be that Competition Bikes offered expedited delivery on certain order to promote sales or there may have been an increase in cost enforced by the company's freight provider for delivery services.
Competition Bikes, Inc. will be reviewed for its various budgets and for its budgetary planning. Budgets are the main planning tool in all businesses that are used by managers to executive management to make decisions for the company. Cash flow is the bloodline of any organization’s operation including operating activities that determine how much cash stays in the organization called revenues and how much is paid out as an expense or liability.
years, sales had increased at a 7% compound rate, while earnings, benefiting from substantial cost
Areas that had decreases in the Assets section include short term investments, refundable income taxes, investments and other assets. Areas that saw decreases in the Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity section include accounts payable, accrued expenses, total current liabilities, and total liabilities.
Utilise this framework to analyse Elecdyne 's situation for a UK location, comparing at least two different possible ways (joint ventures, Greenfield sites or acquisitions) to internationalise (20-30% of marks)
A notable deficiency in performance was the decline in inventory turnover from 22.36 to 20.10 in 2016. As shown in the balance sheet, inventories at the end of the year rose from 322 million to 336 million. It means fewer inventories were converted into cash sales in 2016. The receivables were however better collected as shown by an increasing receivables turnover. It implies Qantas has increased their frequency of debtor’s collection as shown by lower receivables of 993 million compared to 1234 million previously. Lastly, the firm increased its efficiency in use of total assets to generate higher revenues in 2016.
Return on total assets has increased substantially over the years, NPAT have also increased over the years. Return on shareholders funds has also shown a constant improvement over the years. After observing the profitability ratios we can say that
We’ve been asked to review the case Study, Growing a Company by International Acquisition” retrieved https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/244173/mod_book/chapter/140506/UNIT%207%20-%20Case%20Study%20-%20dsgplc_13_full.pdf about the Davis Services Group and how their business changed and developed by its strategic management.
We’ve been asked to review the case Study, Growing a Company by International Acquisition” retrieved https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/244173/mod_book/chapter/140506/UNIT%207%20-%20Case%20Study%20-%20dsgplc_13_full.pdf about the Davis Services Group and how their business changed and developed by its strategic management.
In response to the case study of Davis Service group, this essay will describe organic and inorganic growth, two major ways in which a company can grow. Next, the acquisition of Berendsen will be discussed. Thirdly the EU market will be discussed in terms of opportunity for horizontal and organic growth. Finally, a recommendation regarding the location for international expansion will be presented.
Although revenues declined in 1999, net income increased by 13% over the prior year. As the graph below illustrates, net income has been volatile in the latter half of the 90 's. Sharp decreases in 1998 and 1999 net income were due to restructuring charges. If these charges had not been incurred, income would have been flat for both years. Efficiency in cost control and inventory management has allowed net income to increase while revenues decreased in 1999. Note that the largest growth rate was 43% in 1997 over the prior year with net income of $795.8 million.
In this assignment we will look at the Davis Service Group and its takeover of Berendsen. We will also discuss 2 ways a company can grow, what a company would consider if they were expanding globally. We will look at which aspects of the European Union encouraged the horizontal growth of the business as well as the differences between Organic and Inorganic growth. Lastly we will theorize why the acquisition of Berendsen was a good opportunity for the Davis Service Group.