Cyclermate Report

CYCLERMATE COMPANY PERFORMANCE REPORT Word count 3099 lyric The INCREDIBLES FB2A Ngo Mai Anh Hoang My Hanh Dinh Ngoc Huyen Nguyen Hai Ly Nguyen Ha Thu Nguyen Son Tung Content 1. Introduction 2. liquidity and Capital structure 2. 2. 2. 3. 2. 4. 2. 5. 3. 1. 3. 2. SWOT analytic valueing Liquidity Matters Capital grammatical construction Matters Short-term options paginate 3 4 3. Production Methods SWOT Analysis Short-term Options 8 4. military man Relations 5. Investigation for L iodine-term Survival and positivity 6. Conclusion 7. Reference 8. Appendix 10 12 13 14 15 2Page 1. Introduction Cyclermate Ltd is a small(a) bon ton producing bi musical rhythms in UK.The firm was set up by Lewis Lle intumesceyn and Dai Armstrong, the two destruction friends in a local cycle touring club. They produce traditional well(p) cycle, which imitate the 1940s and 1950s. In 1990s, the ph mavenr expanded to meet the essential and they bought a 15,000 squargon feet w arhouse with 2,000 squ a tomic function 18 feet of office accommodation. The mellow part pop off- made bikes brought them upgradeable reputation and brinytained high sales though they did non advertise frequently. However in 2010 the fede analogyalityn has trouble as the sales shine and the demand fell in spite of get off price.Some customers even complained slightly quality of the produce because they got accidents referable to search brake. We atomic number 18 a group of consultants and we atomic number 18 preparing this report that allow for bemuse Cyclermates averer an objective view ab out this come with. Although at the moment they are having overdraft and about difficulties in selling products, we are here to hold in the bank see opportunities of this come with and abide entrusting in it. 3Page 2. Liquidity and Capital Structure 2. 1. SWOT Analysis ? Strengths ? ? Cyclermate has a big establishment clip and reputation in producing traditional bike.The bon ton has addit ion of a large piece of territory worth ? 208,000 (included ? 48,000 of factory and ? 160,000 of light dirt). ? Weaknesses ? ? Cyclermate has very few underway assets and more non- catamenia asset. This reduces the liquidity of specie. There is a great li mightiness that is in the form of bank overdrafts. Costs are rising while price per unit accrue to gain customers resulting in reduce in revenue. ? Opportunities ? ? A fixed cadence of bike is ensured to be sold with Cyclermates reputation Sales may augment with milieu protection trend There is a chance of getting set uping from Dais cousin ? ? ? ? ThreatsBanks do non allow nigh(prenominal)more overdraft, thencely there is a possibility of bankruptcy With competition from early(a) companies and e-commerce, unitedly with bad reputation from accidents caused by Cyclermates bikes. sales may continue to remain low ? Linda Llewellyn one of three shareholders indirect requests to withdraw money from conjunction bus iness 2. 2. Liquidity Matters The accredited proportion measures whether or not a firm has enough resources to pay over its debt over the next 12 months. Current ratio is calculated as follow. In this recitation, current ratio is 1. 85 which subject matter that for every dollar the company owes in the all of a sudden term it has ? 1. 5 available in assets that finish be born-again to cash in the short term. Therefore, it can be understood that current liabilities are still in control. However, the ratio is a little dapple high so it reflects that the company is not efficiently using its current assets or its short-term financing facilities. This may withal indicate problems in proceedinging groovy worry. 4Page Quick ratio measures the competency of a company to use its near cash or alert assets to extinguish or retire its current liabilities immediately. The higher the ratio, the greater the companys liquidity is. (Quick Assets = Current Assets Inventory)Here, Cyclerm ate has a quick ratio of 1. 15 which means Cyclermate has enough quick assets to convert to cash in indian lodge to pay current liabilities if demand. Cash ratio measures a companys ability to immediately use cash to pay its current debts This ratio indicates that this company does not name much cash in hand and naturally it cannot pay bank overdraft right away by cash. Generally, Cyclermates current liabilities are still in control with the liquidity of its current assets. However, with limited cash in hand, other current assets are compulsory to increase liquidity in to ensure the ability to pay debts in urgent circumstances. . 3. Capital Structure Matters Capital structure is the way a company combines between Equity and Liabilities in lay out to optimize fiscal sources. The effectiveness of a companys capital structure is a good deal analyzed finished debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio. Here, Cyclermates D/E ratio is estimated 1. 976. It means that with to all(prenominal) one ? 1 of Equity, there is ? 1. 976 of Liabilities. In other words, at the moment, the ability to pay debt of Cyclermate is over the ability of payment for shareholders ancestry. To do the problems or to reduce the ratio, there are two main trends decrease Liabilities and/or increase Equity.In the short term, it is very difficult to kick up shareholders fund as it pull backs time to carry individuals and organizations to invest in a small company who is in the verge of bankruptcy. correct when there is a possibility that Dais cousin allow invest to Cyclermate, long time will be compulsioned to comp permite well-grounded policies and internal matters. Thus, in short-term, it is more rational to focus on minimizing Liabilities. Therefore, problems of capital structure in short-term turns out to be the very(prenominal) matters with liquidity, which is how to increase cash in company account to pay bank overdraft and other liabilities. Page 2. 4. Short-term Options To deal with th e difficulties of Cyclermate Ltd in liquidity as well as capital structure, we firstly take into account about the company assets that can be quickly converted to cash in case bank asks for paying back overdraft. The assets are chosen includes companys free hold land and trade debtors. Looking at this companys fiscal strengths, it is easy to recognize its very huge freehold land which is worth ? 160,000. However, this value has been recorded with historical price in the get time by the end of 1990.Thus, we calculate the current price of the land in declination 2011 is about ? 269,160. 4 (if the price in 1990 was century%, the inflation rate made the average price in December 2011 tense up up to 168. 244%). As a result, if we convert immediately the freehold land, the money gained is enough to pay all ? 264,864 current liabilities (including ? 177,364 of bank overdraft and ? 87,500 of trade creditors). In addition, the company has a small scale and so we do not throw away to co ncern so far about expanding factory area. In addition, this company has ? 00,571 at trade debtors that represents the touchstones own by cycle shops and this amount of money can cover the bank overdraft. Though Cyclermate could not take back all the trade debtors, they should take back as much as they can. Then, we consider about plans to increase profit or to decrease embody for Cyclermate in short-time with the purpose to raise the companys fund The draft budget for 2010/11 points out that Cyclermate has potentiality to nurture budgeted transaction loss with only 950 and 1300 bikes sold through post hop out order and cycle shop in turns.In the first stage, we calculate the amount of bikes to reach BEP (break-even point) with assumption of the same price, same constitute and same proportion of two types. In the calculation Q* Break-even point Fixed cost = indirect cost determine per unit = Average price per unit = agree sales / Total bike quantity (of both 2 types of bi ke) covariant cost = ask cost per unit ? Q* (estimated) = 2,753 bikes 6Page Thus, to reach BEP Cyclermate needs to sell 503 more bikes (including about 212 bikes through direct mail order and 291 bikes through cycle shop). In fact, how to sell 503 more bikes is a difficult matter.As a result, we decide to suggest lowering direct cost in each bike by reducing separate namely lamps, lock, basket, dynamo and brake front (replace by brake front without dynamo). The reasons will be explained in detail in next part about Production. By doing this, each bike saves about ? 31. 09 for direct material / protean cost. We calculate BEP again with the impertinent variable cost and find out Q* = 2310 bikes which means Cyclermate only needs to sell more 60 bikes (25 bikes through direct mail order and 36 bikes through cycle shop). Consequently, the cost cutting method can help increase profitability.Moreover, there are some employees want to retire or cannot naturalise anymore equal Lewis Ll ewellyn or Idris Pugh. If Cyclermate accepts to let them free (the plan will be explained in Human Relations part), they will construct a new budget of ? 67,534 per year. This budget is not only enough to employ new staffs to lazy ranges, scarcely also can save an amount of requital for the company. 7Page 3. Production Methods 3. 1. SWOT Analysis ? Strengths ? The cycles made by the company are retro styles and totally hand-made with high-standard which keep back high demand from the securities industry ?The whole process is divided clearly into stages which are responsible by specialized batch at each specific stage ? Weaknesses ? ? ? ? Faults is cease littlely appearing and reduces the quality of the product The recent painting method causes some quality problems to a number of fames. Moreover, the highly toxic paint materials is ruination the compressor and extraction equipment There are some components that are not necessary make the cost to produce a cycle quite high There are some employees issues that invisibly affects the production and reduces the productivity ? Opportunities ? The new materials and technologies that Dais relative provides is a great opportunity to father the product The firm has commissioned a cycle shop in Cardiff to get to the wheels for it with reasonable quality and are unendingly delivered quickly 3. 2. Short-term Options showtime of all, it is good that the company have specialized plurality responsible for each specific stage. This is because one of the most important facets of job specialization is its potential to increase worker productivity and output. However, in the current arrangement, there are still some clashes of tasks between people.Therefore, it is necessary that tasks are assigned specifically to employees. Secondly, after(prenominal) the interview, it is clearly that faults causes mainly by the painting method and Janices mistakes as she has to work quickly and late. In short term, it is too diff icult to upgrade the painting method to fix the paint quality problems so reducing the number of fames painted each day to focus on the quality should be concerned since demand for the period continues to fall. The company also should prioritize assembly to guarantee that every product is tested carefully before reaching customers.Beside the problems mentioned above, there are some employees issues that also need to be concerned about such as Idris Pugh who is responsible for wheels, mudguards, cooking stove guards, stays and other hardware is really old and often withdraw because of his heath. Fortunately, the company has already 8Page commissioned a cycle shop in Cardiff to do the job with reasonable quality and is always delivered quickly. The direct cost is whitened higher than the materials and components used by Idris, but the company can reduce the cost of paying salary for Idris.Since the cost is rising significantly, it is highly recommended that some component which d oes not add any value to the product should be eliminated. In addition, whether something adds to the value of the product or not are determined by customers rather than by the company. For instance, an example of something a customer would consider being waste redundant accessories. Customers evidently do not want to pay for it, so the company can reduce costs by eliminating it as much as possible. In this situation, the company could reduce costs by removing lock, basket, and lamp and replace the brake with dynamo with a normal brake.The company also should rearrange the warehouse to reduce the wastes causes by moving between places, searching things and so on, because the process looks to be somewhat shambolic. The warehouse should be rearranged. (Refer to appendix) 9Page 4. Human Relations Human relation is the way people interact and behave toward each other, world relation plays important role in business. Each organization or business tries to find out the effective ways th at progress up a good relationship in firm and maintaining it. Taking the time to regain strategically about how the people in your business are managed will help you avoid potential problems.After interviewing with people in the company and reviewing their work, we realized that the clash of work did not only late down the process but also create conflicts between members. Since each job is not done or supervised by one specific person, it is hard to keep track of the responsibilities when errors occur. To make ourselves clear when suggesting specialization, we will now name the specific jobs for each person in the company. Dai Armstrong is wild both about the company and about its future, he gave a number of ideas about possible directions, however he has too much work such as paperwork, doing fame.As a director, his task is about outdoor(a) relation but he only works in the factory. To develop their company, he needs to go out and work with the distributors. Another sharehol der, Lewis Llewellyn, is less optimistic than Mr. Armstrong about companys future. He also shows that he is keen on retiring. Since he does not desire with work, company should let him retire. The third shareholder in the board of director is Mr. Lewis wife. After divorcing with Mr. Lewis, she wants one third value of the business.To deal with this difficult problem the company should negociate with Lewiss ex-wife, either by continue giving her her dividend or persuade her to take her investment back only according to inflation rate. In production team, Mr. Maldwyn Jones thinks that his charabanc undervalues his skills and he is thinking about leaving due to this. To improve as well as motivate him, the company should let him replace Lewis in manager board in the business manager position while Mr. Armstrong works on external relations. At the same time, Mr. Maldwyn should still continue his painting job while helping Dai with management. Mr.Emlyn Morgan has umpteen ideas about h ow to improve production and his wife thinks that he is undervalued by the managers. desire Mr. Maldwyn, to motivate him to work his best, he should be advanced to the overall production managers, overseeing all the works happens in the factory and assist the upstart workers as they have questions. 10 P a g e Although Idris Pugh is a bicyclist perfectionist and his products never gets complaints, he is not not healthy enough to work regularly. We think that the best solution is to let him retire and recruit a new skillful worker to replace him. Janice and Ffred are two new(a) assemblers.Janice likes her job but sometimes she feels pressure because she has to work overtime. However, because the sales have decreased and there are a lot of bikes left therefore she will not have to work overtime for a while. Ffred is young and in experience so he often makes mistake. Now, with the supervising of Emlyn Morgan, he will able to avoid faults. Packing is a step that is taken by anyone who has time. We think that factory should have an employee who is specialized in this task. Ianto Prichard is an odd-job(prenominal) man and cleaner in the factory. We decide to promote him to be in charge of this task since he is used to the work in the firm.He can do his job every calendar weekday morning and for certain his salary will be higher. Glady Wells, who cleans the office twice a week, can clean both office and factory now twice a week and he will be paid more. 11 P a g e 5. Investigation for Lone-term Survival and Profitability Political ? From 1990s, UK political sympathies and campaign group have tried to promote cycling as a good alternative choice for car and a good way to improve health ? 12,000 miles of the National Cycle Network is build which are equivalent to 200% of the network expansion ? London is the innkeeper ofOlympic 2012 with the commitment to encourage people to participate more in sports activities like cycling Economic ? UK has recovered from e conomic crisis thus customers would have more budget ? Fuel costs is rising, therefore many people are switching from car to cps ? Growing online sales of bicycle products Social ? UK people are more aware of health and environment benefits from riding bicycle, especially in avoiding absenteeism ? More events organized to encourage people participation in cycling ? Traditional bike has been in favor of customers Technology Law Environment ? New types of bike has been launched to the securities industry ?Laws encourage people to choose bicycle (e. g protecting cyclists against car drivers in an accident or having preferential traffic signals) ? Environment protection campaigns promote and make people aware of advantages of riding bicycles in reducing emissions unitary company is a successful company if it has a good management team. Cyclermate Ltd really needs a good director who has clear imaging about the companys future and he must get laid exactly how to run this company. By looking at the PESTEL analysis above, we think that Dai Amstrong still see a great potential in this industry, thus he keep being so optimistic about it.He now must reorganize the companys structure to make it work more efficiently. In addition, the director should pay attention to financial management. It plays an important role in the survival of the company. According to Mr Jones, the company had not advertised its products in the national press for some years now, we would have to advertise more on media. Besides, he mentioned an alternative route to increase sales that is trying to build up the direct sales to have the maximum benefit. We can sell the products online through Internet which is a helpful tool for saving advertising cost.Furthermore, the directors also should pay attention to the demands of customers to bed exactly what they want so that its products could meet the needs of customers. The other firms in the same market were increasing their sales of traditional machines therefore we could think about the new technologies to develop new products. Mr Owen Dais cousin had some expertise in new technologies and he was willing to help. The profitability of the company might be ensured if all the options are applied.Besides, we can apply some campaigns such as saving energy that helps reduce the heating, lighting and baron cost. 12 P a g e 6. Conclusion To conclude, the main problems in Cyclermate are the low liquidity of their asset, and problems in managing human resources. We trust that with the suggested solution, Cyclermate will be in a safer and more successful position than they are now. Through this report, the bank has a clearer view of where Cyclermate is standing in its development. With the resources and potential they have in hand, it is such a waste if they do not get further loan to continue developing.We also want to point out that with this uch potential, Cyclermate may even appear to be a very good candidate for loan, as th ey can expand their market not only local-wide but world-wide. 13 P a g e 7. Reference 1. TIMOTHY S. HATTEN (200), Accounting Records and Financial Statements. 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Appendix Sales take on mail order Cycle shop Budgeted total revenue Direct materials Indirect costs Total Costs Budgeted trading loss busy Payable Possible tax loss recovery Shareholders Funds 846,118 (916,312) 446,580 1,292,698 (1,362,892) 29,602 (-40,592) (36,000) 35,000 28,602 units 1067 1370 Price ? 700 420 Revenue 746,900 575,400 1,322,300 Table 1 Draft budget 2010/11 after selling more cycles (Number in red is the old record) Picture 1 Rearrangement of Warehouse 15 P a g e