Answer: Option [a] Expansion will typically be financed by an inordinate amount of debt.
Explanation:
As the growth is poorly managed, the current asset policies will not be optimum and hence the additional requirement of capital will require more of debt.
QUESTION 3 What is the most likely consequence for a business that manages its sales growth...
What is the most likely consequence of rapid, poorly managed sales growth?
What is not a likely consequence of rapid poorly managed sales growth?
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you: What is the most that Pampa should pay for
CCC? Why?
Pampa RV, Inc., a publicly traded firm, is considering the acquisition of Chico Clothing Company (CCC)for a price of $12 per share. CCC is a private company that specializes in manufacturing clothing, shoes and accessories for beauty pageant contestants. The RV business is slow, and Pampa's CFO believes that the acquisition of CCC will help to improve...
1. Review the chapter's opening story involving Amazon.com and
its founder, Jeff Bezos.
Required:
a. In a business such as Amazon.com, monitoring cash flow is
always a priority. Even though Amazon now has billions in annual
sales and sometimes earn a positive net income, explain how cash
flow can lag behind net income.
b. Amazon is a publicly-traded corporation. What are potential
sources of financing for its future expansion?
c. Explain how even in periods of net loss for Amazon,...
DuPONT ANALYSIS A firm has been experiencing low profitability in recent years. Perform an analysis of the firm's financial position using the DuPont equation. The firm has no lease payments but has a $2 million sinking fund payment on its debt. The most recent industry average ratios and the firm's financial statements are as follows: Industry Average Ratios Current ratio 3.34x Fixed assets turnover 7.44x Debt-to-capital ratio 19.28% Total assets turnover 3.70x Times interest earned 35.45x Profit margin 12.64% EBITDA...
Requirement For each of the scenarios listed above, describe the most likely judgment trap that ultimately biased the auditor's decision making in the audit. Judgment trap 1. Chen Li worked on the audit of American Healthcare Associations (AHA), which operates hospitals and outpatient centers in Texas and Oklahoma. Chen was assigned responsibility to audit the allowance for patient receivables. For the past several years, AHA's accounting policy required that the recorded allowance for patient receivables be set to equal the...
13.02 - 3 Incorporating Stakeholder Impacts into Business Sustainability Analyses and Decisions Stylz Company, a recent start-up fashion retailer based in the United States, is deciding between opening its first sales presence in either Italy’s Tuscany Region or Spain’s Matarrana Region. Stylz’s financial group surveyed potential customers in both markets and has compiled a business plan that estimates the financial impact for the first 5 years. This 5-year financial plan estimates that entering Tuscany would generate $9,000,000 of operating income...
SECTION 1: CASE STUDY: Audit of Sales and Collections Cycle (85 Marks) Read the case below for Digitex LLC and answer the question that follow: Brief company background Digitex LLC has been in business since 1998 and has grown rapidly over the Middle East. The company is a distributor of electronic parts and equipment to the IT industry in the GCC region. Digitex has some strong internal controls policies and procedures over its business environment both internally and externally. However,...
Using the concept of Differences between business strategies and functional tactics, what do you learn about Blue Nile that is important to strategy implementation for them? Blue Nile developed a simple business strategy that applied many distinct functional tactics. The strategic direction Blue Nile used was websites for the online foreign and domestic diamond purchasers at a discount. The tactics applied was they were not a brick and mortar business, their diamonds were high quality and rare, they did not...
Read this article and write a 2-3 page summary of what you learned on GDP US economic growth slowed to 0.7% in 4Q of 2015 WASHINGTON >> The U.S. economy’s growth slowed sharply in the final three months of 2015 to a 0.7 percent annual rate. Consumers reduced spending, businesses cut back on investment and global problems trimmed exports. The slowdown could renew doubts about the durability of the 6½-year-old economic expansion, though most economists expect growth to rebound in...