Diploma in Management & Leadership Level 5

Week- 3 Lesson 7Principles of project management

By Anjum Sattar

Email anjumsattar@yahoo.com

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Aims and Objectives.

Aim (s) •Introduction to working capital Management•Explanation of ratio analysis

Objective(s )By the end of the lesson you should be able to….

•Define what is meant by working capital management.•Explain different types of ratio•Importance of ratio analysis in business

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Background Knowledge• What do we know about Project Management

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Working Capital Management

Working capital is the capital available for conducting the day –to-day operations of an organization; normally the excess of current assets over current liabilities.Working capital management is the management of all aspects of both current assets and current liabilities, to minimise the risk of insolvency while maximising the return on assets. Source :- F9(ACCA book of FTC)

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Working Capital

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•Working capital is how much in liquid assets that a company has on hand. Working capital is needed to pay for planned and unexpected expenses, meet the short-term obligations of the business, and to build the business.• A lack of working capital makes it hard to

attract investors or to get business loans or obtain credit.

Working Capital Formula

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Current Assets and Current Liabilities • The net working capital of a business is its current assets less

its current liabilitiesCurrent Assets include: Stocks of raw materials (inventory)Work-in-progress Finished goodsTrade debtors ( Account receivables)PrepaymentsCash balancesCurrent Liabilities include: Trade creditors( account payables) AccrualsTaxation payable Dividends payable Short term loans

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Working Capital Ratios

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• Two types of ratio under working capital, Liquidity ratios, operating cycle ratios.

• Liquidity ratios

• Current ratio= Current assts/ current liabilities

• Quick ratio( acid test)= Current assets-inventory/current liabilities

Statements of Financial Position

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Income statements for year 30 June

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Liquid ratios for 2010

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• Current ratio:

74/46 = 1.6

The Quick ( or acid test ratio):

72-42 /46 = 0.7

Activity 1

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• Calculate current and quick ratio for year 2011. Through using cheat sheet.

Operating cycle ratio’s

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• The cash operating cycle is the length of time between the company’s outlay on raw materials, wages and other expenditures and the inflow of cash from the sales of goods.

• The faster a firm can push items around the cycle the lower its investment in working capital will be

• The periods used to determine the cash operating cycle are calculated by using a series of working capital ratios.

• Account turnover ratio in days Account receivables / credit sales x 365

• 29000/ 209000 x365 = 50.6 days or 51 days. • Inventory turnover ratio in days • Average inventory/cost of good sold x 365 • (1/2( 37 +42) x365/ 157 = 92 days

Activity 2

By using cheat sheet of year 2010 calculate

Account receivable turnover in days

Inventory turnover in days

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Working capital

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Useful resource to enhance understanding in Working capital management

www.opentuition.comwww.accaglobal.comCMI website Youtube.com / F9 ACCAWikispaces.com / bradrc www.cima.comACCA F9 book of Kaplan , BPP

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Bibliography • • Baguley Phil (1999) Project Management, first edition, Page

10, 47• Barbara Allan (2004) Project Management first edition page 9,

48, 49 published by Facet Publishing. • Howard Barnett (1996) Operations management second

edition, page 18, Published by Macmillan Press Ltd• Koontz Harold and Heinz Weihrich (1990) Essentials of

Management fifth edition page 392,46,47,5 Published by McGraw-Hill , Inc .

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• Working capital

Summary . Q & A

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Cheat sheet/ activity sheet

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Next Session.

In Next Session we are going to Learn ……

•Remaining ratios analysis / project appraisal

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