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I need assistance. I am currently a college student taking a course called "Introduction to Business". I have an assignment to do which includes typing a one page Business Memorandum or "Memo". Can someone please suggests some ideas of topics I can do for this assignment? Also, supporting research? I have never written one of these before and I really need to make a good grade.

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Week 3 Individual Case Study Assignment 1

Cash flow forecasts and projected financial statements

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For the following Individual Case Study, you assume the role of someone who has been asked to provide a Business Report for a group of friends who have invested in an organisation, Fashion Clothing. They had heard you are taking an Accounting and Finance Module and have asked for your advice.

The scenario

A group of friends have formed a new business called Fashion Clothing, an online and mail-order clothing business, in which they have invested £200,000 of their own capital. They intend to manufacture and sell quality clothes. They have set up the business and are selling direct to the final consumer, using a combination of aggressive marketing across a range of different media and also with the use of an automated Web site that accepts online orders. To support this, they also have a department of telephone sales and support staff ready to help customers. The sales staff work in teams and receive a basic salary plus commission for each successful sale. By the start of July 20X5, they have spent £150,000 on tangible non-current assets, and they currently have the remaining £50,000 in their business bank account.

They provide you with the following forecasted figures for their first 6 months of trading:

£

Sales for the next 6 months

1,350,000

Cost of the materials used up in sales

390,000

Labour costs for the 6 months

480,000

Other expenses for the 6 months, including marketing costs and £15,000 depreciation of tangible non-current assets

345,000

Materials purchased during the 6 months

520,000

Their projected cash receipts and payments are estimated to be as follows:

Month (20X5)

Sales Receipts

Payments for Materials

Labour and Other Expenses

£

£

£

July

150,000

120,000

These payments are divided equally over each of the 6 months.

August

120,000

100,000

September

150,000

60,000

October

210,000

60,000

November

260,000

60,000

December

285,000

60,000

Totals

1,175,000

460,000

In addition to the above, they expect to have to pay a tax bill of £20,000 in December 20X5 and also plan to buy (and pay for) £30,000 additional tangible non-current assets in that same month. All transactions will go through their business bank account.

Required

You are asked to provide a Business Report (1,000 words for the main body of the report) for the friends who have invested in Fashion Clothing, commenting on the business’ prospects and including the following five financial statements:

Since none of the investors have a background in accounting and finance, you should also explain what each of these statements means as a part of your report.

  1. An opening statement of financial position at the start of July 20X5.
  2. A monthly cash flow forecast, showing the bank balance at the end of each of the 6 months and indicating what level of overdraft facilities the friends need to negotiate with their bank manager. Explain what additional expense they should take into account as a result of needing this financial assistance (overdraft).
  3. A projected income statement for the first 6 months of trading.
  4. A projected statement of financial position for Fashion Clothing at the end of its first 6 months of operations.
  5. A projected statement of cash flows for the first 6 months of trading and using the indirect method.

Keep the following in mind:

  1. Using a spreadsheet may help you to produce your cash flow forecast. Remember here that £150,000 of the initial £200,000 has already been spent. Hence, your opening bank balance should be £50,000. Your closing bank balance should be included in your statement of financial position as at 31.12.20X5.
  2. Think carefully about the £15,000 depreciation charge when working out your monthly cash outflows for labour and other expenses.
  3. Also think carefully about the figures for closing stocks (inventories), creditors (payables) and debtors (receivables).
  4. Please remember that your qualitative analysis and explanation of your five statements are justas important as the calculations themselves. These, together with your presentation of a professional report, will contribute towards your grade for this assignment.
  5. Please be sure to re-visit the Key Concept Overviews for Weeks 1 and 2, as well as Week 3. These should serve as a reminder of the accruals concept, plus the difference between a cash flow forecast and a statement of cash flows. They also include detailed numerical examples that should assist with your calculations for your financial statements.

Ideally a business report should be produced with a suitable structure and quality of discussion around the following key areas:

Executive summary

Table of contents

List of figures

  1. Introduction
  2. Main financial findings.

2.1 Summary of the first 6 months business operations

2.2 Financial accounting statements

  1. Analysis

3.1 Initial analysis in context of the three financial statements.

3.2 Investigations to increase efficiency

  1. Conclusion
  2. References

ANNEX I: Statement of financial position Fashion Clothing – 01.07.20X5 and 31.12.20X5

ANNEX II: Income statement Fashion Clothing – 6 months to 31.12.20X5

ANNEX III: Statement of cash flows Fashion Clothing – 6 months to 31.12.20X5

ANNEX IV: Projected cash flow forecast for the first 6 months of trading

To complete the assignment:

  • Be sure to read over your Individual Assignment before submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your opinion are appropriate for academic writing.



Assignment Scenario:

As a new marketing associate with Barclays Bank, you are tasked with writing a critical essay summarizing what transpired during the investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice into the abuse of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate regulated by the British Banker’s Administration. This essay, if chosen by your new employer, will be the report presented to the Board of Directors.

Write a 2–3 page, (not including a title and references page), double spaced, critical essay responding to the checklist items. For assistance with your Assignment, please use your textbook and library research resources. The instructions for you to execute this task are as follows:

Directions for completing this Assignment:

1. Read the “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” case study: case study is below..

2. Learn how to write a critical essay: I will make the changes if need be..

3. Use APA format and citation style, provide a title page and references, and do not forget to use in text citations with their accompanying references so as to avoid plagiarism.

4. In your critical essay that includes your thesis, arguments, support, and conclusion, respond to the following:

Checklist:

● Describe the level of ethical development the executives at Barclays demonstrated

when manipulating the LIBOR interest rates.

● Did Barclays Bank neglect social responsibility? What could they have done to be more socially responsible?

● What actions regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could Barclays have engaged in after the scandal broke to set things right and ensure that such an event would not happen again?

● Describe what level of morality would have been demonstrated if executives at Barclays asked themselves, “Even though manipulating the LIBOR will increase company profits, is it the right thing to do in the long run?”

● Explain the importance of ethics and social responsibility in marketing as a result of your case study analysis.

Case study

Chapter 3

On February 28, 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced a criminal investigation into abuse of the LIBOR, an important interest rate regulated by the British Bankers’ Administration. Four months later, London-based Barclays Bank was fined more than $440 million by United States and English financial regulatory agencies for knowingly manipulating the LIBOR to its own advantage. The political and economic uproar that followed the exposure of Barclays’ actions led to several resignations (including that of Barclays’ CEO Bob Diamond) and further criminal investigations. Former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer called the incident “the mega-scandal of mega-scandals,” while journalist Robert Scheer christened it “the crime of the century.” The LIBOR, short for “London Interbank Offered Rate,” is the interest rate banks pay when they borrow money from each other. To calculate this rate, up to 20 influential British banks report their own proposed bank-to-bank lending rates. The highest and lowest rates are trimmed off, and the remaining rates are averaged, creating the LIBOR. A low LIBOR often points to financial stability, while a high LIBOR indicates that banks lack confidence in each other’s economic health. What Barclays was fined for was proposing artificially low bank-to-bank rates to make itself appear more stable than it actually was. However, further investigations indicated that Barclays colluded with other banks—and perhaps even the British government—to impact the LIBOR itself. An unnaturally low LIBOR would suggest greater economic stability than actually existed, misleading investors and loan-seekers in a potentially volatile market, and thus creating profit for the banks involved in the collusion. The rate manipulation carried out by Barclays affects not only London banks and business executives, but also small businesses and individuals—perhaps even you yourself. Because it has historically been considered trustworthy and economically accurate, the LIBOR is used all around the world as an interest rate and financial instrument benchmark. Everything from currency values (including the United States dollar) to multimillion-dollar corporate debts to home mortgages to individual student loans depend on the LIBOR. While it may not seem like it, each of these is a product that is marketed and sold. As loans and exchanges of varying types are banks’ primary sources of profit, banks compete to exchange these products within a market. At the consumer level, consider how many car and credit card commercials you have seen advertising a low interest rate. Hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of these financial products have been sold based on the LIBOR—a rate that may not in fact accurately reflect the world’s shaky economic standing. Journalists and economic analysts have been quick to reject the ethicality of Barclays’ actions. As information about the LIBOR scandal broke, TIME contributor Christopher Matthews wrote, “[Barclays’ alleged collusion] speaks to the moral compass, or total lack thereof, of the world’s financial professionals...the public and the government no longer trust the industry to set its own standards for acceptable behavior.” In a piece for

The Nation, Robert Scheer said, “The modern-day robber barons pillage with a destructive abandon totally unfettered by law or conscience and on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend.” Dennis Kelleher, president of nonprofit financial watchdog organization Better Markets, Inc. was perhaps most condemnatory of all: “What we probably need is to wipe out this entire generation of so-called banking leaders who apparently have no ethics or integrity.” While the total sum of the LIBOR scandal’s consequences are yet to be seen, Barclays’ actions may go down in history as a monumental failure in business ethics and corporate social responsibility.

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