Chapter 3: Q 3-6-4DQ (page 182)
How is a cash budget used to help manage current assets?
Cash budget provides a forecast of the cash flows and this helps in determining the build-up of each current asset and reduction of the same.
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Nowlin Pipe & Steel has projected sales of 72,000 pipes this year, an ordering cost of \(6 per order, and carrying costs of \)2.40 per pipe.
c. What will the average inventory be?
Esquire Products Inc. expects the following monthly sales:
January | \(28,000 |
February | \)19,000 |
March | \(12,000 |
April | \)14,000 |
May | \(8,000 |
June | \)6,000 |
July | \(22,000 |
August | \)26,000 |
September | \(29,000 |
October | \)34,000 |
November | \(42,000 |
December | \)24,000 |
Total annual sales | \(264,000 |
Cash sales are 40 percent in a given month, with the remainder going into accounts receivable. All receivables are collected in the month following the sale. Esquire sells all of its goods for \)2 each and produces them for $1 each. Esquire uses level production, and average monthly production is equal to annual production divided by 12.
a. Generate a monthly production and inventory schedule in units. Beginning inventory in January is 12,000 units. (Note: To do part a, you should work in terms of units of production and units of sales.)
Using the expectations hypothesis theory for the term structure of interest rates, determine the expected return for securities with maturities of two, three, and four years based on the following data. Do an analysis similar to that in the right-hand portion of Table 6-6.
1-year T bill at the beginning of year 1 | 5% |
1-year T bill at the beginning of year 2 | 8% |
1-year T bill at the beginning of year 3 | 7% |
1-year T bill at the beginning of year 4 | 10% |
Why are Treasury bills a favorite place for financial managers to invest excess cash?
In Problem 12, assume the term structure of interest rates becomes inverted, with short-term rates going to 11 percent and long-term rates 5 percentage points lower than short-term rates. If all other factors in the problem remain unchanged, what will earnings after taxes be?
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