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#+title: Section 7 | Lesson 40 - Forecasting, Budgeting, Fiscal Year
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* Links
- [[./../mba-main.org][TOC | Business]]
- [[https://www.udemy.com/course/an-entire-mba-in-1-courseaward-winning-business-school-prof/learn/lecture/4282974#overview][S07:L40 Forecasting, Budgeting, Fiscal Year]]
* Notes
How do companies make budges
How do they forcast
** How do companies make budgets
*** Forecasting is always based on a percentage of sales.
- forecast what your sales are going to be
- everything else is just a percent of revenue
*** when companies forecast
- Public companies forecast quarterly
- Startups forecast monthly
- survival is the goal
- most startups collapse
*** Fiscal years
- companies note when a season ends
- companies also regard their years as "ending" on a different months
- some companies end on black friday
- this is when they make their most money
- japanese companies end in march
** Ethics
- be conservative and honest with forecasts
- some companies try to take from a different quarter to make up shortfalls
- jailtime
- it's easy to make clerical mistakes
- overlook unethical co workers
** time to turn asses into cash
*** Cash Conversion Period Ratio
- when do we get PAID baby?
- *COGS*: Cost of Goods Sold
- how much it costs for goods for the day
**** example
- $5000 of inventory
- COGS is $50
- we have 100 days worth of goods
if we put $1 into inventory it won't be converted into cash for another 50 days
*** Inventory to sale conversion period
- measures on a yearlly bases how long it takes to turn inventory to cash over a year
- you can also do this by season, just replace 365 days with 90 days
#+NAME: inventory_to_sale_conversion
\[
\text{ISCP} = \frac{\text{average inventories}}{\text{COGS} \times 365}
\]
** time to turn credit (not assets) into cash
- when selling product on credit, how long does it take to turn it into cash
#+NAME: sales_to_cash_conversion
\[
\text{Sales to Cash Conversion Period} = \frac{\text{Average Receivables}}{\text{Sales}} \div 365
\]
** time to pay your bills as late as possible
- Purchase to Payment Conversion Period
- pay your bills as late as you can
#+Name: purchase_to_payment_conversion
\[
\text{Purchase to Payment Conversion Period} = \frac{\text{average payables} + \text{average accrued liabilities}}{\text{COGS} \times 365}
\]