chapter 23

Question 1

1) The correct measure of the cash generating ability of a firm is:

a) Working capital
b) Cash flow from operations
c) Account receivable
d) Net income

Answer 1

b

Question 2

2) On April 1 Montreal Salsa Dance School had $1,750 in cash, and no receivables or payables. It also had 100 students whose classes finished on April 30. Thirty-five of those students paid their tuition of $500 on time (before April 30). During the month the school incurred costs associated with its operations of instructor salaries $25,000, rent $4,000, and $1,000 utilities. If the school’s policy of paying all bills in cash at the end of each month is respected, how much does the school have to borrow to pay its bills?

a) $30,000
b) $12,500
c) $10,750
d) $0

Answer 2

Answer: c, ; (35*500)+$1,750 = $19,250;

$19,250-$30,000=-$10,750

Question 3

3) Why are cash budgets important? Choose the best answer.

a) Forecasts cash inflows and outflows
b) Forecasts cash sales
c) Forecasts the impact of cash inflows and outflows on the firm’s cash balances
d) a and c

Answer 3

D

Question 4

4) Why do banks require that business loan applications be accompanied by cash budgets?

a) To determine how much cash to loan
b) To determine whether the loan will be a short-term or long-term loan.
c) To determine whether the business will be profitable
d) To calculate the expected return it receives from giving the loan

Answer 4

b

Question 5

5) Which of the following is a reason why a very profitable company might go bankrupt?

a) Managers are not forecasting sales correctly
b) Profits do not include the real costs of the business
c) Lack of cash to finance activities
d) Profits are inflated using some accounting method.

Answer 5

c

Question 6

6) Which is not a part of good working capital management?

a) the maintenance of optimal cash balances;
b) the investment of any excess liquid funds in marketable securities that provide the best return possible, considering any liquidity or default-risk constraints;
c) the proper management of accounts receivable
d) the extension of long-term debt

Answer 6

d

Question 7

7) Which of the following is not a key component of a cash budget?

a) Estimated production schedules
b) Sales forecasts
c) Estimates of the size and timing of other cash inflows and outflows
d) Warranty sales

Answer 7

d

Question 8

8) In the event that a business’ cash budget forecasts a cash deficit for a short future period of time, what should be done?

a) Close the business, as it is unprofitable.
b) Arrange for some short-term borrowing around the expected time of the deficit.
c) Try to make the cash forecast positive by decreasing / cutting costs somehow.
d) Change the credit granting policy of the business.

Answer 8

b

Question 9

9) The break-even sales growth rate is defined as:

a) The sales growth rate at which a firm makes profits
b) The sales growth rate of return on a firm’s investment
c) The sales growth rate that makes the monthly cash flow from operations equal zero.
d) The sales growth rate at which investors break even

Answer 9

c

Question 10

10) Which of the following is not a component of a firm’s credit granting policy?

a) How to collect payments
b) How to manage bad debts
c) How to monitor receivables
d) How to extend credit

Answer 10

b

Question 11

11) A firm’s payment policy is concerned with

a) When the firm pays its bills
b) How the firm pays its bills (examples: cheques, electronic fund transfer)
c) Which bills the firm pays
d) All of the above

Answer 11

a

Question 12

12) All of the following are important warning signs indicating potential liquidity problems, except:

a) build-up of long-term assets
b) decreases in net working capital
c) increases in accounts receivable
d) increase in debt ratios

Answer 12

a

Question 13

13) A firm’s inventory policy concerns

a) What the firm does with its inventory
b) What kind of inventory the firm buys
c) The amount of inventory to hold
d) Where the firm holds its inventory

Answer 13

c

Question 14

14) A firm’s credit policy concerns

a) what the firm does with its loans
b) what the firm does with its bad debts
c) the amount of inventory to hold
d) when the firm collects its receivables

Answer 14

d

Question 15

15) A firm can grow faster if it:

a) maximizes prices, minimizes production costs, maximizes the time between collection and payment, and minimizes inventory
b) maximizes cash sales, minimizes production costs, maximizes the time between payment and collection, and minimizes inventory
c) maximizes gross margin, minimizes production costs, maximizes the time between collection and payment, and minimizes inventory
d) maximizes its growth rate, minimizes production costs, maximizes the time between payment and collection, and minimizes inventory

Answer 15

c

Question 16

16) Which one of the following is/are true?

a) The change in cash position is a linear relationship to production.
b) If the sales are lower than the sales growth break-even point, the firm will run out of working capital.
c) As the level of inventory increases, the required sales growth increases as well.
d) As the level of inventory increases, the required sales growth decreases.

Answer 16

d

Question 17

17) Montreal Skaters Corp. collects 10% of its monthly sales immediately and the rest a month later. Its production costs are 70% of sales. It holds 1 month of sales in inventory, and it pays half its bills immediately and half after 30 days. What is this firm’s break-even sales growth rate?

a) 78.65%
b) 71.43%
c) 31.58%
d) 10.00%

Answer 17

Answer: c, where production cost b=0.7, cash collected immediately a=0.1, bills paid immediately beta=0.5, and inventory gamma=1.

Question 18

18) Montreal Skaters Corp. collects 35% of its monthly sales immediately and the rest a month later. Its production costs are 65% of sales. It holds 1 month of sales in inventory, and it pays half its bills immediately and half after 30 days. What is this firm’s break-even sales growth rate?

a) 200.0%
b) 46.8%
c) 56.0%
d) 104.0%

Answer 18

c

Question 19

19) Which of the following relationships is not true?

a) The break-even sales growth rate is inversely related to the inventory level.
b) The break-even sales growth rate is inversely related to the gross margin.
c) The break-even sales growth rate is inversely related to the payables rate.
d) The break-even sales growth rate is positively related to the collection rate.

Answer 19

b

Question 20

20) Cash flow from operations

a) Increases when the collection rate on receivables rises
b) Increases when the bill payments are made quicker.
c) Decreases when the inventory turnover ratio increases.
d) Increases when the production costs rise.

Answer 20

a

Question 21

21) Use the following statements to answer this question:
I. Delaying payment of payables can create a buffer for the firm to keep its working capital.
II. If the firm cannot change its credit, payment, and inventory policies, it has to slow growth to survive.

a) I and II are correct
b) I and II are incorrect
c) I is correct and II is incorrect
d) I is incorrect and II is correct

Answer 21

a

Question 22

22) What are two common measures of liquidity?

a) Cash ratio and inventory turnover ratio
b) Receivables turnover ratio and payables turnover ratio
c) Current ratio and quick ratio
d) Inventory turnover ratio and cash conversion rate

Answer 22

c

Question 23

23) A good value for the quick ratio is

a) 1
b) Varies from company to company
c) 2
d) Varies from industry to industry

Answer 23

d

Question 24

24) A firm with a high liquidity ratio is definitely practicing effective working capital management. This statement is:

a) True, higher liquidity means that the firm has more cash than it spends.
b) False, higher liquidity means payables are paid much later than receivables and this hurts the firm’s reputation
c) True, higher liquidity ratio means receivables are greater than payables.
d) False, the firms’ working capital management policy may be too conservative or too lenient

Answer 24

d

Question 25

25) The average collection period measures

a) How long it takes the average customer to pay bad debts
b) How long the firm waits before asking customers to pay
c) How long the firm allows the customers to not pay
d) How long it takes the average customer to pay

Answer 25

d

Question 26

26) The manager of your receivables’ department states that the firm’s accounts receivables turn over 25 times per year. What does this mean?

a) It takes about 25 days, on average, for customers to pay for their orders
b) It takes about 15 days, on average, for customers to pay for their orders
c) It takes about 2 days, on average, for customers to pay for their orders
d) None of the above

Answer 26

365/25 = 14.6

Question 27

27) The inventory turnover ratio is defined as:

a) The ratio of cost of goods sold to sales
b) A ratio measuring the sales that are generated per dollar of receivables
c) A ratio measuring how fast inventory is paid for
d) A ratio of average sales to average inventory

Answer 27

d

Question 28

28) Why is it better to use sales rather than cost of goods sold when calculating the average days sales in inventory value?

a) The values for COGS are not always comparable across firms
b) COGS is not the driving variable behind the accumulation of inventory
c) Inventory is accumulated regardless of its COGS
d) There are three types of COGS, raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods, and since all are slightly different, using one or the other would make the calculations inaccurate.

Answer 28

a

Question 29

29) Use the following statements to answer this question:
I. The quick ratio is more conservative than the current ratio because it covers a smaller period of time.
II. The cost of goods sold figure in the inventory turnover ratio is not always reliable because of the accounting differences used in measuring it.

a) I and II are correct
b) I and II are incorrect
c) I is correct and II is incorrect
d) I is incorrect and II is correct

Answer 29

d

Question 30

30) The payables turnover ratio concerns:

a) Accounts receivable
b) Long-term liabilities
c) Bad debts
d) Current liabilities

Answer 30

d

Question 31

31) The operating cycle is defined as:

a) The amount of time it takes firms to acquire inventory, sell it, and receive payment
b) The amount of time it takes to convert raw materials into finished goods
c) The amount of time it takes to generate profit from operations
d) The amount of time it takes a firm to sell its inventory and receive payment

Answer 31

a

Question 32

32) The two components of the operating cycle are:

a) Average days of sale + average collected payment
b) Average days of sales in inventory + average collected payment
c) Average days of sale + average collection period
d) Average days of revenues in inventory + average collection period

Answer 32

d

Question 33

33) For a given operating cycle, a firm estimates the amount of financing it requires by

a) Calculating the expected profit from sales over the operating cycle
b) Calculating the total expected sales over the operating cycle
c) Calculating the longest period it can possibly obtain to fulfill its payables
d) Calculating the longest period it can possibly grant for customers’ payables

Answer 33

c

Question 34

34) The operating cycle allows firms to estimate

a) the average time between when a firm pays cash for its inventory purchases and when it receives cash for its sales
b) the average time a firm must keep any borrowed funds
c) the average time required for a firm to acquire inventory, sell it, and collect the proceeds
d) the amount of cash a firm needs to be profitable

Answer 34

c

Question 35

35) The cash conversion cycle allows firms to calculate

a) The amount of cash they need to operate
b) How long a firm must keep any borrowed funds
c) How long a firm needs to borrow money for
d) The amount of cash a firm needs to be profitable

Answer 35

c

Question 36

36) Firms can grow faster and decrease their cash conversion cycle by doing all of the following except:

a) Delay paying bills
b) Increase its inventory turnover
c) Reduce collection time
d) Reduce production costs

Answer 36

d

Question 37

37) A company has revenue of $2,043.693 million, accounts receivable of $159.503 million, average inventory of $71.505 million, and accounts payable of $157.210. How many days are the operating cycle and the cash conversion cycle?

a) 12.77 and 28.49
b) 41.26 and 28.08
c) 41.26 and 13.18
d) 13.18 and 41.26

Answer 37

d
13.18 and 41.26

OC= ADRI + ACP =12.77 + 28.49 = 41.26 days

CCC = OC-ADRP
= 41.26 -28.08 = 13.18 days

Question 38

38) Montreal Bagel Bakery collects 35% of its monthly sales immediately and the rest a month later. Its production costs are 65% of sales. It holds 1 month of sales in inventory, and it pays half its bills immediately and half after 30 days. Calculate the operating cycle and the cash conversion cycle for the Montreal Bagel Bakery.

a) 49.5 and 34.5
b) 49.5 and 15
c) 0 and 30
d) 35 and 65

Answer 38

a
, Operating cycle (OC) = ADRI + ACP = 30 + 19.5 = 49.5 days

Cash conversion cycle (CCC) = OC – ADRP = 49.5 – 15 = 34.5 days