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Chapter 22. Strategic and Operational Financial Planning. Professor John Zietlow MBA 621. Chapter 22: Overview. 22.1 Overview of the Planning Process 22.2 Planning for Growth Sustainable Growth Pro Forma Financial Statements 22.3 Planning and Control Short – Term Financing Strategies
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Chapter 22 Strategic and Operational Financial Planning Professor John ZietlowMBA 621
Chapter 22: Overview • 22.1 Overview of the Planning Process • 22.2 Planning for Growth • Sustainable Growth • Pro Forma Financial Statements • 22.3 Planning and Control • Short – Term Financing Strategies • The Cash Budget • Cash Receipts • Cash Disbursements • 22.4 Summary
Overview of the Planning Process • Financial planning activities: • Setting long-run strategic goals • Preparing quarterly and annual budgets • Managing day-to-day fluctuations in cash balances • Long-term financial planning: invest in positive NPV projects • Added complexity – CFOs usually have many more projects that appear to have positive NPV than they can pursue • Limits on capital, production capacity, human resources and other inputs add complexity as well • Long-term financial planning – more an art than a science
Long-Term Financial Planning • Strategic plan – multiyear action plan for the major investment and competitive initiatives • Senior management develops strategic plan by answering questions such as: • In what emerging markets might we have a sustainable competitive advantage? • How can we leverage our competitive strengths across existing markets in which we currently do not compete • What threats to our current business exist, and how can we meet those threats? • Where in the world should we produce? Where should we sell? • Can we deploy resources more efficiently by exiting certain markets and using those resources elsewhere?
Contribution of Finance to Strategic Planning • Financial managers draw on a broad set of skills to asses the likelihood that a given strategic objective can be achieved • Finance involved in determining the feasibility of a strategic plan given firm’s existing and prospective sources of funding • Determine if firm’s ability to generate cash internally and raise cash externally are sufficient to fund projects included in strategic plan • Finance has a control function in the implementation of strategic plans • Financial analysts prepare cash budgets that help avoid liquidity problems • Finance contributes to strategic planning through risk management • Developing risk scenarios and ways to deal with them
Sustainable Growth • Growth can be measured by increases in firm’s market value, its asset base, the number of people it employs, increase in sales • Next figure illustrates the trade-off a firm faces when chooses to grow Increase in Liabilities Accounts Payable Short-term debt Long-term debt Increase in assets Cash Receivables Inventories Fixed Assets = + Increases in Equity Retained Earnings
Sustainable Growth Model • Sustainable growth model (Higgins, 1981) – models how rapidly a firm can grow • Assumption of the model: 1. The firm will issue no new shares of common stock next year 2. The firm’s total asset turnover ratio, S/A, remains constant 3. The firm pays out a constant fraction, d, of its earnings as dividends 4. The firm maintains a constant asset-to-equity ratio, A/E 5. The firm’s net profit margin, m, is constant • Firm wants to increase sales by g percent • Asset turnover ratio constant => assets must increase by gA
Sustainable Growth Model (Continued) • The model is used to derive the sustainable growth rate g* • a) Asset turnover ratio remains constant (assumption 2) => assets must increase by gA (to 1 + gA) the next period • b) Retained earnings for the next period will equal S(m)(1+g)(1-d) • c) The ratio L/E mustremain constant (from assumption 4, A/E ratio is constant): • d) Increase in liabilities equals S(m)(1+g)(1-d)(L/E) (from a and b)
Sustainable Growth Model (Continued) • e) Increase in assets must match increase in liabilities and equity • The sustainable growth rate that keeps the sources and uses of funds in balance: • Increase in profit margin or assets-to-equity increase sustainable growth rate • Increase in total asset turnover ratio (A/S is reducing in this case) has the same effect - increase in sustainable growth rate
Pro Forma Financial Statements • Forecasts of balance sheet and income statements • Communicate to investors future plans • Used for internal planning and control purposes • Start with “top-down” or “bottom-up” sales forecast • “Top-down” approach – use macroeconomic and industry forecast to establish sales goals • “Bottom-up” approach – forecast sales on a customer by customer basis • Many firms use combination of these two approaches • Percentage-of-sales method – models all items on the balance sheet and income statements to grow in proportion to sales • One item such as cash balance, or short term liability account is left as plug figure – adjusted after all projections to preserve the equality of left and right hands of balance sheet
Assumptions to Generate Pro Forma Financial Statements • Use following assumptions: 1. Zinsmeister plans to increase sales by 30% next year (in 2005) 2. Gross profit margin will remain 35% 3. Operating expenses will equal 10% of sales, as in 2004 4. Interest rate paid on all debt is 10% 5. Invest additional $20 mil in fixed assets in 2005. Depreciation expense will increase from $10 mil to $15 mil 6. Tax rate is 35% 7. Cash holdings will increase by $1 mil next year 8. Accounts receivables are 8.5% of sales 9. Inventories equal 10% of sales 10. Accounts payable are 12% of cost of goods sold 11. Repay additional $5 mil in long-term debt next year 12. Pay 50% of net income as dividend
Pro Forma Income Statement for Zinsmeister Shoes • Using these assumptions, compute the income statement items • All begin with forecasted sales in 2005 1. Zinsmeister plans to increase sales by 30% next year • Sales = $250,000 X 1.3 = $325,000 2. Gross profit margin will remain 35% • Gross profit is $325,000 X 0.35 = $113,750 • Cost of goods sold is then $211,250 3. Operating expenses will equal 10% of sales, as in 2004 • Operating expenses = $325,000 X 0.1 = $32,500 11. Repay additional $5 mil in long-term debt next year • Interest expense = (Credit Line + Current long-term debt + Long-term debt) X Interest rate = ($5 mil + $5mil + $15mil) X 0.1 = $2.5mil (this assumption may change as other items are 4. Interest rate paid on all debt is 10%
Pro Forma Balance Sheet for Zinsmeister Shoes • Using these assumptions, compute the balance sheet items 7. Cash holdings will increase by $1 mil next year • Cash = $10 mil+ $1mil = $11 mil 8. Accounts receivables are 8.5% of sales • A/R = $325,000 X 0.085 = $27,625 9. Inventories equal 10% of sales • Inventory = $325,000 X 0.1 = $32,500 5. Invest additional $20 mil in fixed assets in 2005. Depreciation expense will increase from $10 mil to $15 mil • Gross fixed assets = $80 mil + $20 mil = $100 mil • Accumulated depreciation = $20 mil + $15 mil = $35 mil
Pro Forma Balance Sheet for Zinsmeister Shoes (Continued) 10. Accounts payable are 12% of cost of goods sold • A/P = $211,250 X 0.12 = $25,350 • Credit line used as plug figure • Credit should be $3,306,000 to balance the balance sheet • Initial estimate of $2.5 mil interest payment on the income statement too high • Given a credit line of $3,306,000, interest payment would be only $2.33 mil • The decline in interest expense increases the profit and retained earnings. Higher earnings – the credit line is reduced even more • Credit line, interest expense and retained earnings linked through the balance sheet, income statement assumption 4 • iterative process to compute these items
External Funds Required (EFR) for Zinsmeister Shoes • Forecast of external funds required can be modeled with the following equation: - additional assets required to maintain a constant asset turnover ratio - additional accounts payable available assuming that the ratio of accounts payable to sales remains constant - additional financing source from increased retained earnings • EFR for Zinsmeister is $8,111,000. In pro forma balance sheet external financing declined by $6.7 mil Discrepancy because assets to sales ratio is actually not constant as equation assumes
Short-Term Financing Strategies • Growth is a very common long-term objective for many firms • Sales volumes usually vary along a long-term upward trend • Current assets tend to rise and fall with sales • Fixed assets follow the long-term upward trend of sales, but do not vary short-term with sales • Companies can adopt conservative, aggressive, or matching strategy to fund long-term trend and seasonal fluctuations • Conservative strategy – use long-term financing to cover both long-term investments as well as short-term • Aggressive strategy – use short-term financing to fund both seasonal peaks and part of long-term growth in sales and assets • Matching strategy – finance permanent assets (fixed assets plus permanent component of current assets) with long-term funding sources and temporary asset requirement with short-term financing
1,400 1,200 1,000 Quarterly Sales ($ in millions) 800 600 400 200 Quarterly Sales 0 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Year Quarterly Sales for Hershey Foods(1992 – 2002)
1,800 1,600 1,400 1,200 1,000 Total Assets($ in millions) 800 600 Hershey’s Current Assets Matching Strategy Conservative Strategy Aggressive Strategy 400 200 0 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Quarters (1992-2002) Financing Strategies Available to Hershey
Cash Budget • Cash budget shows firm’s planned cash inflows and outflows • Used to estimate short-term cash requirements and provide the information needed to plan short-term investment (surplus cash) and short-term funding needs (cash shortages) • Key input in building cash budget– firm’s sales forecast • Estimate the monthly cash flows that will result from projected sales receipts and from production-related, inventory-related, and sales-related outlays • Cash receipts – include all firm’s cash inflows in a given financial period • Cash disbursements include all outlays of cash by the firm during a given financial period
Cash Receipts • Most common components of cash receipts • Cash sales, collections of accounts receivable, and other cash receipts • Farrell Industries develops cash receipts forecasts for October, November, and December • Sales in August and September: $100,000 and $200,000 • Forecasted sales for October, November, and December: $400,000, $300,000, and $200,000 • 80% of sales on credit, 20% cash sales • 50% of sales collected next month; remaining 30% collected after two months • In December, $30,000 dividends from stock Farrell holds in a subsidiary • Table next slide shows schedule of cash receipts for Farrell
Cash Disbursements • Cash disbursements items: • Cash purchases, fixed asset outlays, payments of accounts payable, interest payments, and rent and lease payments • Cash dividend payments, wages and salaries, loan principal payments, tax payments, and repurchase or retirement of stock • Depreciation: not included in the cash budget; does have a cash outflow effect through its impact on tax payments • Farrell Industries uses the following assumptions to compute cash disbursements for October, November, and December: • Purchases equal 70% of sales. Paid 10% in cash; 70% paid next month, and 20% two months after the purchase • October purchases = 70% X $400,000 = $280,000 • $28,000 paid in cash, $196,000 paid in November, and $56,000 paid in December
Cash Disbursements (Continued) • Rent payments: $5,000 paid each months • Wages and salaries: 10% of monthly sales plus $8,000 • October wages = 10% X $400,000 + $8,000 = $48,000 • Tax payments: $25,000 taxes paid in December • Fixed assets outlays: $130,000 in new machinery paid in November • Interest payments: $10,000 due in December • Cash dividends payments: $20,000 dividends will be paid in November • Principal payments: $20,000 principal payment due in December • Table on next slide shows schedule of cash disbursements for Farrell Industries
Schedule of Projected Cash Disbursements for Farrell Industries
Net Cash Flow, Ending Cash, Financing Needs and Excess Cash • The firm’s net cash flow: subtract cash disbursements from cash receipts for each period. • Ending cash balance can be found by adding the beginning cash balance to the firm’s net cash flow • Farrell constructs the cash budget using the cash receipts and disbursements and the following assumptions: • Cash balance at the end of September is $50,000 • Notes payable and marketable securities are $0 at the end of September • $25,000 is the desired minimum cash balance • If cash balance is less than desired minimum cash balance: issue notes payable • If cash balance above desired minimum cash balance: invest in short-term marketable securities
October November December Total cash receipts $210 $320 $340 Less: Total cash disbursements 213 418 305 Net cash flow -$3 -$98 $35 Add: Beginning cash 50 47 -51 Ending cash balance $47 -$51 -$16 Less: Minimum cash balance 25 25 25 Required total financing (notes payable) $76 $41 Excess cash balance (marketable securities) $22 Cash Budget for Farrell Industries