CHAPTER 5
CASH AND MARKETABLE
SECURITIES MANAGEMENT
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Cash and Marketable Securities
Management
• Cash and Marketable Securities are also known as cash
reserve.
• Cash reserve:
▫ Provide margin of safety against technical insolvency that is
inability to meet current or maturing obligations.
▫ To maintain certain level of liquidity involves risk-return
tradeoffs (in terms of investment).
• The goal is to minimize the level of cash reserve while
maintaining adequate level of liquidity. It involves:
▫ Determine the appropriate degree of liquidity.
▫ Determine the appropriate mix of cash reserve.
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Cash Management
• 4 primary reasons for holding cash:
▫ Transactions – a firm must have enough cash on hand to
make its day-to-day purchases of materials and pay all its
obligations.
▫ Precautionary – generally a function of the predictability
of a firm’s cash inflows and outflows.
▫ Speculation – to be able to take advantage of any
“bargains” that may arise.
▫ Compensating Balances – held at banks to compensate for
services that they perform for the firm.
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Cash Management Activity
The goal of cash management is to minimize the cash balances
while maintaining certain level of liquidity.
Speeding up
receipts
Slowing down
disbursement
Maintaining
good banking
relationship
Management of
firm cash flows
Cash
budgeting
Determining the
optimal cash balances
ST financing strategies
for cash shortfalls
Marketable securities
investment strategies
for cash excess
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Operating Cycle, Cash Cycle and Cash
Turnover
• Operating Cycle (OC) – the lag time in days between the
purchase of raw materials and the time cash is collected from
sales of finished goods or receivables.
• Cash Cycle (CC) – the lag time between cash outlay to
purchase raw materials or inventories and cash is collected
from receivables.
• Cash Turnover (CTO) – the number of times the firm’s cash is
actually turned over each year.
• Minimum Operating Cash (MOC) – the firm’s cash cycles
directly affect the amount of cash that need to be held at any
given time to support the operations.
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Operating Cycle, Cash Cycle and Cash
Turnover
OC = 110 days
AAI = 70 days
Purchase Raw Materials
Accounts Payable
0
10
20
ACP = 40 days
Sell Finished Goods
Accounts Receivable
30
40
50
60
70
80
Pay Account Payable
Cash Outflows
APP = 30 days
90
100
110
Collect Account Receivable
Cash Inflows
CC = 80 days
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Operating Cycle, Cash Cycle and Cash
Turnover
• The cash cycle equals to:
OC0 = Average Age of Inventory (AAI) + Average Collection Period (ACP)
= 70 days + 40 days
= 110 days
CC0 = Average Age of Inventory (AAI) + Average Collection Period (ACP)
– Average Payment Period (APP)
= 70 days + 40 days – 30 days
= 80 days
CTO0 = 360/Cash Cycle
= 360/80
= 4.5 times
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Operating Cycle, Cash Cycle and Cash
Turnover
• To calculate MOC, consider that they has annual cash
expenditures or outlays of RM 300,000.
MOC0 = Annual Cash Outlays/Cash Turnover
= RM 300,000/4.5 times
= RM 66,666.67
**Therefore, they needs RM 66,666.67 as a minimum cash requirement to
support the firm’s day-to-day operations without risk of technical
insolvency.
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Managing Cash Cycle
• Managing the basic elements of Cash Cycle that is (1) accounts
payable; (2) accounts receivable; and (3) inventories. Several
strategies:
▫ Increasing Average Payment Period – delaying payments on
accounts payable as late as possible without damaging the firm’s
credit rating.
▫ Reducing Average Age of Inventory – in order to increase
inventory turnover.
▫ Reducing Average Collection Period – speeding up collection of
account receivable as soon as possible without losing potential
sales.
** The implementation of the above strategies will reduce cash cycles, and thus will
result in freeing some of the capital tied up in inventories and account receivables.
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Another Example:
Let assume that the company in the above example able to:
1. Negotiate a better credit term with its supplier from net 30 to
net 35.
2. Improve production process and selling effectiveness that
reduces average age of inventory by 10 days to 60 days.
3. Decrease average collection period by 7 days to 33 days by
changing its credit terms.
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Solutions:
CC1
= 60 days + 33 days – 35 days
= 58 days
CTO1
= 360/58 days
= 6.21 times
MOC1
= RM 300,000/6.21 times
= RM 48,309.17
The above changes will have several impacts:
1. Shorter cash cycle, and thus higher cash turnover.
Change in CC
= CC1 – CC0
= 58 days – 80 days
= (22 days)
Change in CTO = CTO1 – CTO0
= 6.21 times – 4.5 times
= 1.71 times
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2.
Lower minimum operating cash requirements, and hence lower
investment in cash to support the firm’s operations.
Change in investment MOC = MOC1 – MOC0
= RM 48,309.17 – RM 66,666,67
= (RM 18,357.50)
3.
Lower cost of financing and higher profits. If the cost of funds is at 10%,
the firm can realize a yearly saving of RM 1,835.75.
Change in cost of financing = Change in MOC x Cost of Funds
= (RM 18,357.50) x 10%
= (RM 1,835.75)
**Therefore, proper cash management will have a direct impact on the firm’s
liquidity and profits.
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Marketable Securities Management
• Provide much lower yields than firm’s operating assets.
• There are several reasons for a firm holding these types of
liquid assets:
1. Marketable securities are substitute for cash.
2. Marketable securities as a temporary investment.
Factors Influencing the Choice of Securities:
1. Default Risk
2. Interest Rate Risk
3. Purchasing Power Risk
4. Liquidity Risk
5. Return of Securities.
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Alternative Investment
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Treasury Bills (T-Bills) – matures in 91 – 182 days, with longer
maturities such as 9 months or 1 year are sold from time to time
in smaller amount.
Treasury Notes (T-Notes) – maturity is between 1 – 7 years.
Held in the marketable securities portfolio because of security
and liquidity.
Negotiable Certificate of Deposits (NCDs) – the amount
(smallest RM 100,000) and the maturity (commonly 30 days) are
based on the investor’s (depositor’s) needs.
Commercial Paper (CP) – maturities may range from 3 – 270
days, as longer maturities require a formal registration.
Banker’s Acceptance (BAs) – similar to cashier’s check payable
in the future, with typical maturity of 30 days or 180 days.
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Accounts Receivable Management
The outstanding amounts owed to a firm by its customers,
because of credit sales.
Credit Policy
A system for managing accounts receivable that includes credit
terms, credit standards, and collection policy.
Very important as it could smooth out selling process, provides
service to customers, and attracts more sales.
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Credit Standards
It refers to the minimum financial strength and moral standings of
acceptable credit customers.
It involves the determination of (1) willingness to pay, and (2) the ability to
pay of the applicants must be done.
Can be evaluated by using the 5 C’s of credit:
1. Character – willingness to pay that is the probability that customers will try
to make an honest effort to honor their obligations.
2. Capacity – a subjective and objective judgment of the customer’s ability to
pay.
3. Capital – focus on working capital of the firm as it is directly available for
payments of obligations.
4. Collateral – tangible and intangible assets offered to creditors as security to
obtain credit facilities.
5. Conditions – the impact of general trends or other specific conditions in the
market that may affect a customer’s business operations and the ability to
meet the obligations.
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Credit Terms
Dictates the conditions under which the credit facilities are granted. It relates
to cash discount for early payments, discount period, credit period, and
financial charges for late payments.
The most common terms are:
• Open terms
• Cash before delivery (CBD)
• Cash in advance (CIA)
• Cash with order (CWO)
• Cash on delivery (COD)
• Net 30
• Net 10 end of month (EOM)
• 2/10 net 30
• 2/10 prox, net 30
• 2/10 EOM, net 40
• 2/10 ROI, net 40
Not involve credit transactions.
According to industry practices
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Collection Policy
Provides guidelines for appropriate actions to be taken when
established credit terms are violated, or when accounts are
overdue.
The firms must initiate some actions to collect and depends on the
amount of time the accounts had been passed due. It involves 3
stages:
1. Reminder – remind customer that the account is overdue without
payment.
2. Follow up – sending successive follow up letters with increasing
firmness, telegram, telephone, and personal visits.
3. Drastic action – the last stage that includes drawing a draft on a
customer, collection by attorney, or collection agency.
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Miscellaneous Considerations
1. If a firm imposes a carrying charge or interest charge on
outstanding receivable, then credit sales may actually be
more profitable than cash sales.
2. It is illegal to offer more favorable credit terms to one
customer or class of customers than to another, unless the
differences can be cost-justified.
3. Most credit is offered on open account; but there are a
variety of legal credit instruments that can be used for
credit sales.
4. A firm should continuously monitor the effectiveness of its
credit policy to be sure that standards are being enforced.
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