Cyclermate Report

CYCLERMATE COMPANY PERFORMANCE distinguish Word count 3099 words 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. runniness and Capital structure 2. 2. 2. 3. 2. 4. 2. 5. 3. 1. 3. 2. SWOT Analysis liquid Matters Capital expression Matters Short-term options paginate 3 4 3. Production Methods SWOT Analysis Short-term Options 8 4. Human Relations 5. Investigation for Lone-term option and Profit might 6. Conclusion 7. Reference 8. Appendix 10 12 13 14 15 2Page 1. Introduction Cyclermate Ltd is a small confederacy producing bi bi cycles/seconds in UK.The firm was set up by Lewis Lle wholesomeyn and Dai Armstrong, the two close friends in a local cycle touring club. They produce handed-down upright cycle, which practise the 1940s and 1950s. In 1990s, the society expanded to meet the pack and they bought a 15,000 determine feet w atomic act 18house with 2,000 squ ar feet of top executive acco mmodation. The mettle whatsoever quality hand- made steering wheels brought them good reputation and maintained high gross revenue though they did not advertise much. However in 2010 the smart set has trouble as the sales decrease and the demand fell in spite of measlyer scathe.Some customers even complained virtually quality of the product because they got accidents receivable to front brake. We are a group of consultants and we are preparing this report that allow for give Cyclermates banker an intention view about this smart set. Although at the moment they are having overdraft and some difficulties in selling products, we are hither to make the bank fulfil opportunities of this company and stretch localizeing in it. 3Page 2. Liquidity and Capital Structure 2. 1. SWOT Analysis ? Strengths ? ? Cyclermate has a long establishment time and reputation in producing traditional bike.The company has asset of a large piece of land worth ? 208,000 (included ? 48,000 of fact ory and ? 160,000 of overbold land). ? Weaknesses ? ? Cyclermate has really few legitimate assets and more non- original asset. This conquers the liquidity of money. in that location is a bang-up liability that is in the form of bank overdrafts. Costs are rising while price per unit decrease to hike up customers resulting in reduce in revenue. ? Opportunities ? ? A fixed amount of bike is ensured to be sold with Cyclermates reputation gross revenue whitethorn increase with environment protection trend There is a medical prognosis of getting investment from Dais cousin ? ? ? ? ThreatsBanks do not allow anymore overdraft, thus at that place is a first step of bankruptcy With competition from other companies and e-commerce, together with bad reputation from accidents caused by Cyclermates bikes. sales may breed to remain low ? Linda Llewellyn one of three shareholders motives to withdraw money from company care 2. 2. Liquidity Matters The current dimension measures whet her or not a firm has bounteous resources to be choose over its debt over the next 12 months. Current ratio is calculated as follow. In this case, current ratio is 1. 85 which means that for every dollar the company owes in the miserable term it has ? 1. 5 available in assets that can be reborn to cash in the short term. Therefore, it can be understood that current liabilities are still in control. However, the ratio is a little bit high so it reflects that the company is not efficiently using its current assets or its short-term financing facilities. This may overly indicate problems in flexing capital management. 4Page Quick ratio measures the ability of a company to use its near cash or quick assets to extinguish or cross off its current liabilities immediately. The higher the ratio, the greater the companys liquidity is. (Quick Assets = Current Assets Inventory)Here, Cyclermate has a quick ratio of 1. 15 which means Cyclermate has enough quick assets to convert to cash i n order to hatch current liabilities if necessary. Cash ratio measures a companys ability to immediately use cash to honorarium its current debts This ratio indicates that this company does not take on much cash in hand and of course it cannot pay bank overdraft right a mien 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 involve 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 order to optimize financial sources. The effectiveness of a companys capital structure is oft analyzed done debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio. Here, Cyclermates D/E ratio is estimated 1. 976. It means that with severally ? 1 of Equity, in that location 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 fund. To resolve 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 raise shareholders fund as it takes time to persuade individuals and organizations to invest in a small company who is in the verge of bankruptcy. Even when there is a possibility that Dais cousin will invest to Cyclermate, long time will be needed to issue legal 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 kindred 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 the difficulties of Cyclermate Ltd in liquidity as well as capital structure, we firstly take into account about the company assets that can be quickl y 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 financial strengths, it is aristocratic to recognize its very huge freehold land which is worth ? 160,000. However, this value has been recorded with historical price in the purchase 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 100%, the inflation rate made the average price in December 2011 r severally 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 shield therefore we do not get under ones skin to concern so far about expanding factory area. In addition, this company has ? 00,571 at trade debtors that represents the am ounts 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 visualise about plans to increase profit or to decrease cost for Cyclermate in short-time with the purpose to raise the companys fund The draft compute for 2010/11 points out that Cyclermate has potential drop to have budgeted trading loss with only 950 and 1300 bikes sold finished direct mail order and cycle shop in turns.In the first detail, we calculate the amount of bikes to reach BEP (break-even point) with assumption of the same price, same cost and same proportion of two types. In the calculation Q* Break-even point Fixed cost = corroboratory cost Price per unit = Average price per unit = Total sales / Total bike quantity (of both 2 types of bike) Variable cost = Direct cost per unit ? Q* (estimated) = 2,753 bikes 6Page Thus, to reach BEP Cyclermate take to sell 503 more bikes (i ncluding 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 find to intimate lowering direct cost in each bike by reducing parts viz. 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 proceeds about ? 31. 09 for direct material / variable star cost. We calculate BEP again with the new 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 loss to retire or cannot march anymore like Lewis Llewellyn or Idris Pugh. If Cyclermate accepts to let them free (the plan will be explained in Human Relations part), they will have a new budget of ? 67,534 per year. This budget is not only enough to employ new staffs to vacant positions, but also can save an amount of salary 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 have high demand from the market ?The whole process is shared out clearly into stages which are trusty by specialized battalion at each ad hoc stage ? Weaknesses ? ? ? ? Faults is continuously appearing and reduces the quality of the product The recent flick method causes some quality problems to a number of fames. Moreover, the highly toxic paint materials is ruining the compressor and extraction equipment There are some genes 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 grea t opportunity to develop the product The firm has commissioned a cycle shop in Cardiff to grade the wheels for it with fairish quality and are always delivered quickly 3. 2. Short-term Options First of all, it is good that the company have specialized people responsible for each specific stage. This is because one of the most important facets of job speciality is its potential to increase doer 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 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 difficult to climb 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 come ups 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, chain guards, stays and other hardware is really old and often absent 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 somewhat 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 does 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 wou ld consider being waste redundant accessories. Customers obviously do not want to pay for it, so the company can reduce be 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 store to reduce the wastes causes by moving between places, searching things and so on, because the process looks to be somewhat shambolic. The storage warehouse should be rearranged. (Refer to appendix) 9Page 4. Human Relations Human relation is the way people interact and behave toward each other, human relation plays important role in melodic line. Each organization or business tries to find out the effective ways that realise up a good relationship in firm and maintaining it. Taking the time to think strategically about how the people in your business are managed will help you avoid potential problems.After interviewing with people in the co mpany and reviewing their work, we cognise that the clash of work did not only slow 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 enthusiastic 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 external relation but he only workings in the factory. To develop their company, he needs to go out and work with the distributors. Another shareholder, Lewis Llewellyn, is less sanguine than Mr. Armstrong about companys future. He also shows that he is keen on retiring. Since he does not propensity with work, company should let him retire. The ternary shareholder in t he 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 negotiate 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 manager 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 many ideas about how to improve production and his wife thinks that he is undervalued by the managers. Like Mr. Maldwyn, to motivate him to work his best, he should be fightd to the overall production managers, overseeing all the works happens in the factory and assist the young workers as they have questions. 10 P a g e Although Idris Pugh is a wheelwright 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 young 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 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 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 government 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 meshwork expansion ? London is the host ofOlympic 2012 with the commitment to encourage people to participate more in sports activities like cycling Economic ? UK has recovered from economic crisis thus customers would have more budget ? enkindle costs is rising, therefore many people are switching from car to bicycle ? Growing online sales of bicycle products Social ? UK people are more aware of health and environment benefits from riding bicycle, pe culiarly 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 market ?Laws encourage people to choose bicycle (e. g protecting cyclists against car drivers in an accident or having preferential affair signals) ? Environment protection campaigns promote and make people aware of advantages of riding bicycles in reducing emissions ane company is a triple-crown company if it has a good management team. Cyclermate Ltd really needs a good director who has clear vision about the companys future and he moldiness know 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 t o financial management. It plays an important role in the endurance 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 increased 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 know 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 expertness 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 s ome campaigns such as saving energy that helps reduce the heating, lighting and forefinger 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 believe 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 they 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 Direct mail order Cycle shop Budgeted total revenue Direct materials Indirect costs Total Costs Budgeted trading loss Interest Payable Possible tax loss convalescence 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