Accounts Receivable Turnover
Description: Accounts Receivable (A/R) Turnover tells the firm how fast it is collecting on credit sales. It is found by dividing the firm’s net credit sales by its average net accounts receivable (for this calculation, we assumed that all sales were made on credit). A more helpful metric is the number of days it takes on average to collect on credit sales, which is found using the A/R turnover. The average collection period is found by dividing 365 by the A/R turnover number. The results of these two calculations must be compared to the firm’s credit policy in order for a determination to be made.
Present Position: These calculations are less important in Zynga’s case mainly because Zynga does not have to maintain inventory. Inventory is an asset which normally must be floated with cash, which comes in part from collecting on Accounts Receivable. This is part of the cash conversion cycle. Zynga’s current accounts receivable management is also less important because accounts receivable is a very small portion of Zynga’s total current assets. Also, when Zynga’s products are sold online, cash payment is received instantaneously through one of the major credit card companies, a user’s bank account, or through a third-party online payment service such as PayPal. The company may extend trade credit to other businesses as they purchase ads on Zynga games. Zynga is well ahead of the industry average in this area. This suggests that Zynga is more efficient at collecting on credit sales than its competitors. It should be noted that Zynga has been consistently improving in this area, as their A/R turnover has increased and the average collection period has decreased year after year since 2011. It should also ...
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...ive for the first few years of existence. Looking at the statement of cash flows, Zynga has experienced significant growth. The most eventful year was when they announced their IPO in Dec. of 2011. When it comes to cash flow, the company is on target with most companies in its industry. The statement of cash flows is a very important when evaluating a company because it is a statement where it’s harder to skew the numbers. The fact that over the past few years, Zynga was able to produce positive cash flows in operations is good sign of healthy growth. It means that they were able to turn a profit just from their operations versus dependent solely on marketable securities. Although its cash flow from operations have fallen over the past few years, mostly because of the stock based expense accumulated when it went public, the company still maintains a good position.
Accounts receivable ending balance= Beginning balance +sales on Account - cash receipts -sales returns and allowances- charge of uncollectible account
...s are doing well and over the many years have gone up. The company has not lawsuits currently pending which is good. The company as a whole seems to be growing even when the market is down.
Accounts Receivable has good separation of duties and strong internal controls such as control numbers and reconciliations to sales and bank statements. One weakness in the Accounts receivable system is the accounting supervisor approves summary entries and reconciles the general ledger account, which could indicate a weakness with segregation of duties. We recommend that the controller approves of summary entries to segregate these duties.
Looking at the individual ratios seen in exhibit 1 and comparing it to the industry average shown in exhibit 2 gives a sense of where this company stands. Current ratio and quick ratio are really low and have been decreasing. For 1995, the current ratio is 1.15:1, which is less than the industry average of 1.60:1, however to give a better sense of where this stands in the industry, as seen in exhibit 3, it is actually less than the average of the bottom 25% of the industry. The quick ratio is 0.61 is less than the industry is 0.90. Both these ratios serve to point out the lack of cash in this company. The cash flow has been decreasing because, it takes longer to get the money from customers, but the company still needs to pay for its purchases. Also, the company couldn’t go over the $400,000 loan limit, so they were forced to stretch their cash.
The financial data for the company is convincingly good-to-great. Its revenues has been rising constantly since 1998 as can be seen on the exhibit. Net income for 2002 was the highest in 5 years ? $5,710 million, rising by 58% since 2001. Its total assets have increased by 13.6%.
Inventory Turnover (2011 only): For the year 2011, the inventory turnover was calculated by the cost of good sold divided by the typical average amount of inventory. The average inventory was equal to the current inventory plus the prior inventory all divided then by two. Resulting in the 2011 Inventory Turnover to be equal to 3.480 because 5,385,088 / 1,547,223.5=
Present Position: Generating positive return on any kind of input is Zynga’s biggest issue at this point, with generating return on equity being the main issue in particular. Zynga has sustained negative ROE since its initial public offering, despite extremely attractive gross profit margins over the same time period. At first glance, a logical conclusion would be that Zynga is not doing a very good job of keeping its costs down in order to preserve the revenue that equity investors are helping to facilitate. But on closer inspection of the income statement, it becomes very clear that almost half of Zynga’s total revenue each year goes to research and development. This category is not included in the cost of revenue on the income statement, which is treated as Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) in this instance. But an expenditure of this amount seems to make sense, given the nature of the industry and its reliance on research and development of new intellectual property.
Accounts receivables are the money that is owed to a company by its debtors. (Larry, 2016). Receivable accounts that Walgreen has is trade accounts. The company use a 3 month lag when reporting accounts.
Overall, Horizontal analysis and financial ratios are essential factors that businesses use to monitor its liquidity. Therefore, in order to improve Apple’s ratios and profitability, the company needs to implement a strategy to increase the company’s liquidity. Business owners or managers should monitor current ratio and acid test ratio as these ratios help us to ensure the company has the proper liquid assets to pay current liabilities, to stay in operations and to expand the company. As we noted in our acid test ratio and current ratio for the company, we show a lower ratio for acid test ratio than the current ratio, which means that the company’s current assets rely on inventory. Therefore, the company needs to convert old inventory into
...rs, setting a good trend for the corporation. They also have a very low debt-to-equity ratio, indicating that they have enough equity to easily pay off any funds acquired from creditors. As a creditor I would feel safe in lending them funds for any future projects or endeavors.
Its receivable turnover is 13.4 times per year, which is higher than C-P 10.5. In addition, the average number of days from sale on account to collection for P&G is 27.2 days while for C-P is 34.8 days. Based on the efficiency ratio analysis, P&G’s inventory moves quickly from purchase to sale, which the inventory turnover ratio is 6.2 and the time for the purchased inventories to be on sale is on the average of 58.6 days while C-P’s turnover ratio is 5.2 and the average days to sell is 70.6. This shows that P&G takes a shorter time than C-P to sell their inventories. However, C-P has a higher ability to pay their short-term liabilities, whereby the current ratio is 1.08 as opposed to P&G
Rondo is showing steady improvement in its Fixed Assets Turnover ratio. Total Assets Turnover ratio is a measure of all assets measured against sales. Rondo is showing improvement in this area at 1.0, but is still below the industry average of 1.1. Rondo's performance is fair in this ar...
Receivables Turnover: With a lower receivables turnover ratio than the industry, SIA should consider reviewing its credit policies to ensure timely collection of imparted credit that is not earning interest for the firm.
A benchmarking analysis against competitors is provided in excel. These data indicate that Primo was performing poorly against its three competitors in terms of day’s receivable and day’s inventory. The fact that day’s payable was 40 days versus 30 days for the credit terms offered by its suppliers, and much higher than for its competitors, helps explain much of the reason for complaints from the company’s suppliers about late payments. In the future, Primo might have limited access to supplier credit, and suppliers might ultimately refuse to sell to the company unless payment is made up front in cash. The data also indicate that the company was performing poorly against its competitors in every profitability metric displayed.
The inventory turnover is almost half compared to the industry average, although it managed to increase by 0.3 compared to 2002. The company needs to maintain a constant cost of goods sold and at the same time manage inventory more efficiently to maintain market competitiveness. The average collection period also increased slightly to 58 days, three days increase compared to 2002. The company needs to negotiate or persuade on efficient payment methods to customers to decrease the collection period down to industry average. The total asset turnover increased 0.1 to 1.6 but still failing to meet the industry standard of 2.0. Martin Manufacturing needs to boost sales while maintaining a constant asset value to meet or exceed industry standards.