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Ms-41 june 2011

MS-41   june-2011

MS-41 : Working capital management

1. Explain the distinguishing features of matching, conservative and aggressive strategies for financing working capital with the help of illustrations. Under which circumstances each of these are suitable ?

2. Discuss the critical variables of Cash flow forecasting and the different forecasting approaches of cash flow.

3. Write notes on :

(a) Commercial Bill market

(b) Commercial Paper.

4. Discuss the features of 'Factoring' and 'company deposits as source of working capital finance. Why is factoring yet to be popular in India ? Give reasons.

5. Omega Ltd. has investigated its cost of funds and their Profitability and found that current assets earn six percent where as fixed assets earn 13 percent. Cost of current liabilities is three percent and average cost of long term funds is 10 percent. The current year balance sheet reveals the following information.

(Rs. in thousand)

Liabilities

Share capital

Term loans

Bank overdraft

Payables

 

Rs

20000

50000

7000

3000

80000

Assets

Plant and Machinery

Land and Building

Stock

Cash in Bank and Hand

Rs

30000

30000

10000

10000

80000

 

You are to comment on overall profitability of Omega Ltd.

The company proposes to lower its net working capital to Rs 7,000 by (a) either shifting Rs 3,000 of its long term loans to bank overdraft or (b) buying one more machine by paying cash. You are to suggest which of these two alternatives should be preferred and why. Do you approve of implementing both the alternatives simultaneously.

6. (a) How would you assess the credit worthiness of a customer ?

(b) A company is manufacturing spare parts and selling it at Rs 10 per unit. Variable cost is Rs 7 per unit. Total sale of a year is 2,40,000 units with per unit cost of production Rs 9. As per present credit policy company allows a credit of 2 months with a 3 percent default and expense of Rs 50,000 for collection. The company has two proposals for replacing the present credit policy with following details.

Proposals Credit period     Collection                           Expense Default

X             1.5 month        Rs. 75,000                                            2

Y               1 month       Rs. 1,50,000                                           1

If the company has a required rate of return of 20 percent which of the two programmes the company should adopt.

7. What is the significance of Inventory control ? Discuss the different models of inventory management.

8. Discuss the relationship between liquidity and profitability and explain how it is measured.

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