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Introduction
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Table of Contents:
Declaration................................................................................................................................. 2
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3
Table of Contents:...................................................................................................................... 4
List of Figures: ........................................................................................................................... 5
List of Tables: ............................................................................................................................ 5
1 Financial Planning ................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Financial Statements ....................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Analysis of Financial Statements: Ratio Analysis ............................................................. 7
1.3 Calculated Ratios of GTL and Company B ...................................................................... 8
1.4 Analysis of Financial Statements of GTC for future Improvement .................................... 9
2 CAPITAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS ....................................................................................10
2.1 Cash Flow Forecast for Appendix 2 ................................................................................10
2.2 Payback Period of Proposed Investment in Appendix 2 ..................................................10
2.3 Cash Flow Forecast with +20% Sensitivity on Weighted Cost of Capital .........................11
2.4 Analysis of GTC’s Investment Plan .................................................................................11
3 Cost Accounting .....................................................................................................................12
3.1 Direct and Absorption Costing Techniques .....................................................................12
3.2 Absorption Costing Method Applied on Appendix 2 ........................................................13
3.3 How can GTC Optimize Costs to Improve Profitability? ..................................................14
4 Performance Measurement of a Business..............................................................................15
4.1 Financial and Non-Financial Performance Measurement Methods: ................................15
4.2 Proposed financial and non-financial indicators for GTC Ltd. ..........................................17
References ...............................................................................................................................20
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List of Figures:
Figure 1: Components of Balance Sheet .................................................................................... 6
Figure 2: Components of Profit and Loss Account ..................................................................... 7
Figure 3: Methods to Improve Asset Turnover............................................................................ 9
Figure 4:Cost Accounting Techniques (AccountingTools 2019) ................................................13
Figure 5: Financial Performance Measurement Methods ..........................................................15
Figure 6: Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton 1996:197) ..................................................16
Figure 7: Performance Pyramid (Cross and Lynch 1991) ..........................................................17
Figure 8: Success Determinants and Results (Letza 1996) .......................................................18
Figure 9: BSC of GTC Ltd. (Letza 1996) ...................................................................................18
List of Tables:
Table 1: Comparing Key Financial Values .................................................................................. 6
Table 2: Calculated Financial Ratios .......................................................................................... 8
Table 3: Cash Flow Construct of Investment .............................................................................10
Table 4: Discounted Payback Period ........................................................................................11
Table 5: Discounted Payback Technique with Sensitivity ..........................................................12
Table 6: Labor Rate Per Hour ...................................................................................................14
Table 7: Total Overhead Cost ...................................................................................................14
Table 8: Total Cost Per Product ................................................................................................14
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1 Financial Planning
1.1 Financial Statements
Balance Sheet: Statement of Financial Position
Balance Sheet exhibits the financial status of a business at a point in time (Prasanna
Chandra 2011). Figure 1 explains what a balance sheet mainly comprises of.
Taking the financial statements of Global Turbochargers Ltd and its rival Company B, we can draw
out some initial conclusions by juxtaposing key financial values as shown in Table 1:
a) Working Capital: Difference between current assets and liabilities, indicates the position of a
company in terms of liquidity, short term financial health and operational efficiency. Positive
working capital shows that a company has the capability to invest and grow (Investopedia 2019).
Here both the companies have a positive Working Capital indicating healthy financial position, but
Company B has a higher Working Capital which indicates, it can liquidate cash in a short term,
invest for future ventures or it could also mean that the company has excess of inventory and is not
utilizing the cash for investment.
b) Retained Profit and Net Profit Margin: Both these values have a correlation, there is higher
accumulated retained profit if net profit margin is high which is clear from the data above. Net profit
margin indicates how much money is made from every dollar spent (Small Business Development
Corporation n.d). Lower net profit margin of GTL could be an indication that the company’s
expenses are more.
c) Intangible Assets: These assets do not have a physical value, which makes it difficult to exactly
evaluate the benefits of these assets quantitatively. However, it can be valuable and play an
important role for the company in the long term. GTL has more intangible assets which means it
immediately cannot contribute towards company’s profit.
a) Profitability: Businesses aim to create wealth for their owners. These ratios give an
understanding on to which level a company can achieve that. Profit made is compared to other key
figures in the financial statements.
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b) Gearing: This is a relationship which compares the money financed by the owners of the business
and amount received by others as a loan. This is an indication of how much a business relies on its
borrowing (Atrill 2012). This helps investors to understand the amount of risk involved.
c) Liquidity: This refers to the potential of a company, in a short term (usually one-year) to meet its
obligations by its liquid resources. These ratios are generally a comparison between liquid
resources (current assets) and creditors due for payment soon (Current Liabilities) (Chandra 2011;
Coventry University 2019).
d) Efficiency: These ratios help to examine how a company can manage its resources and how it
can be employed efficiently. These ratios are relationship between cost of goods sold and different
assets (Atrill 2012; Chandra 2011).
e) Investment: These ratios are used to assess the returns and performance a firm gets from its
investment held in a business. A shareholder can assess the return from an investment with the
help of these ratios.
2) GTC’s acid test ratio is 0.537, which needs to be increased for the company to have a better
liquidity to meet its expenses, creditors and short-term liabilities. It can increase this factor by
increasing sales, converting inventory into sales, reducing creditors collection period and by
clearing off liabilities sooner (FitSmallBusiness 2017).
3) GTC can improve its operational efficiency by increasing its ROS by cutting on labor costs by
automated assembly line and cutting material costs through Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
reductions (CAPSTONE n.d).
4) Asset Turnover is 0.8 (85%), which means £1-pound worth of asset generates £0.8 pound of
sales. This clearly indicates that GTC needs to improve their asset management efficiency. Figure
3 shows some of the ways with which GTC could benefit with their asset turnover.
5) GTC’s Debt Ratio is 35%, showing that only 35% of the total assets are from debts.
This ratio indicates that GTC business is safe, has less chance of failure and it has more assets to
sell for paying off debts. However, GTC will have to work towards bringing it down further and not
letting it increase. Debt Ratio can be reduced by issuing new stocks, selling off assets and by
swapping debt by equity.
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Cash Flow Forecast for Technology Upgrade Costs of Global Turbochargers Ltd
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Benefits
1) 20 Manual Assembly Operatives
(20x20,000) 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000
Total Benefits 0 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000 4,00,000
Costs
1) New Cell with 5 Robots(5x200,000) 10,00,000
2) Gripping Device (5x28,000) 1,40,000
3) Roller Tracker and Assembly Fixtures 60,000
4) Maintanence 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
5) 2 Cell Operatives 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000
Total Costs 12,00,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 1,10,000 1,10,000
Net Cash Flow (12,00,000) 2,90,000 2,90,000 2,90,000 2,90,000 2,90,000 2,90,000
Table 3: Cash Flow Construct of Investment
2.3 Cash Flow Forecast with +20% Sensitivity on Weighted Cost of Capital
Table 5 shows how we have calculated the payback period and constructed a cash flow when
sensitivity factor of 20% has been considered in the cost of capital which assumed to be 8%. Calculations
are done according to below data:
% of Sensitivity = (NPV without sensitivity factor/ NPV with sensitivity factor) *100 = 55%
1) It is seen that IRR is 11.773% which is greater than the cost of capital, indicating that the NPV will
be positive. Actual interest rate gained on an investment is represented by IRR.
2) NPV for the investment is positive which means that GTC could consider accepting this
investment. Positive NPV is an indication of increase in market value of shareholder’s fund once
the acceptance of the project is recognized by the stock market.
3) From the payback period calculated which is 5.231 years, this could be an indication of risk in the
investment. In this investment, the equipment gets depreciated to zero value in the 6th year.
Considering the payback after 5 years. Investment with longer payback period is more likely to fail
and the company will face constraints with respect to liquidity.
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4) From table 5, with a +20% sensitivity on the cost of capital, NPV is reduced by almost half. Even
though NPV is still positive, which means that investment still could be considered with a risk of
failure as the payback period is long.
5) GTC could consider this investment plan but should look for alternative technology upgrade
investment plans which are being proposed in the company with a shorter payback period. This
will ensure that the company does repayment of investment faster and has a good liquidity
position.
3 Cost Accounting
3.1 Direct and Absorption Costing Techniques
Direct/Variable Costing
A technique which considers only variable costs which includes direct labor, direct material and
variable overheads, neglecting fixed overheads for costing for valuation of inventory, crucial management
decisions and product costing (Khan and Jain 2007).
Absorption Costing
Absorption costing is a traditional technique which ‘absorbs’ all the costs to produce a product
which is ready for sale. Along with direct labor, direct material and variable overheads, this method takes
fixed overheads into consideration (Khan and Jain 2007).
1) Direct Costing under estimates the cost of a product because of neglecting the fixed overheads.
2) Absorption Costing considers the fixed overhead costs for the all the goods/products produced in
that period which helps to compute cost per unit whereas variable costing treats fixed overhead
costs as one item on balance sheet which is balanced out with net income (Investopedia 2019).
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3) Absorption Costing is an advantage for the company to comply with Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financing Reporting Standards (IFRS). Variable
costing is generally used for internal financial decisions, but according to law, you need absorption
costing for publishing financial statements (WallStreetMojo n.d).
2) Reducing Expenses: GTC could look to reduce its direct and indirect costs by looking for a
cheaper alternative supplier for raw materials, reducing shipping costs, cheaper labor force, cutting
costs on advertising and marketing. All these costs need to be cut down for the Wester Europe
market which is very vulnerable due to the uncertainty of political/legal influences which would
affect the use of gasoline vehicles.
4) Elimination of Wastes and Non-Value Adding Processes: This will reduce the time required for
each process and work will get the job the done faster.
5) Automation: Automation of processes and technology upgrades will directly reduce labor costs
and time which automatically will reduce the cost of production.
Lead Time is the total time required to make finished products from raw materials.
3) Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard: Originally designed with 4 perspectives which are
business, financial, business-process, learning and growth. These perspectives help take strategic
decisions for implementation from a holistic view. Figure 11 shows a framework which could be
used to convert a strategy into operation (Mooraj et.al 1999).
4) Cross and Lynch’s Performance Measurement Hierarchy links financial and non-financial
information and strategic and operational goals which is illustrated as a performance pyramid in
Figure 12. Strategies are cascaded down to develop performance measures.
G-TC has been in a strategically strong position so far, but to continue they would have to work
towards increasing the profitability of their PL2 production line, whose demand has fallen by 15%. Going
ahead, G-TC should invest in their engineering department to come up with new powertrain technologies
as there is soon going to be a paradigm shift towards electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles in the automotive
industry. As some of the key customers are driving for lower future prices, reduced planned volumes and
shortened contracts, G-TC needs to ensure a high operating margin by cutting its costs. This could be
done by improving quality processes within the company. The BSC can help G-TC exactly understand all
its current shortcomings and help decide future strategies which will help G-TC take a higher market share.
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