Your company had the following balance sheet and income statement information for 2003:
Balance sheet:
Cash $ 20
A/R 1,000
Inventories 5,000
Total C.A. $ 6,020 Debt $ 4,000
Net F.A. 2,980 Equity 5,000
Total Assets $ 9,000 Total claims $ 9,000
Income statement:
Sales $10,000
Cost of goods sold 9,200
EBIT $ 800
Interest (10%) 400
EBT $ 400
Taxes (40%) 160
Net Income $ 240
The industry average inventory turnover is 5. You think you can change your inventory control system so as to cause your turnover to equal the industry average, and this change is expected to have no effect on either sales or cost of goods sold. The cash generated from reducing inventories will be used to buy tax-exempt securities which have a 7 percent rate of return.
What will your profit margin be after the change in inventories is reflected in the income statement?
1. Current Inventory = $5000
2. New Inventory proposed = Cost of goods Sold / average inventory turnover
New Inventory proposed = 9200 / 5
New Inventory proposed = $1840
3. Cash generated from proposed plan = Current Inventory - New Inventory = 5000 - 1840 = $3160
4. New Profit after changed Inventory policy = Current Net Income + Cash generated * Interest rate
New Profit after changed Inventory policy = 240 + 3160 * 7%
New Profit after changed Inventory policy = $461.20
5. profit margin = New Profit / Sales
profit margin = 461.20 / 10000
profit margin = 4.612%
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