Instructions:

Assume the following financial data (balance sheet and income statement) for your company in 2018(please, find the data on the last page). Your case analysis should be treated as a problem presented to you by your company's top management for analysis and decision recommendation(s).Hence, it should demonstrate the qualities of thorough and relevant research, logically sound analysis, and focused professional writing.

Key Assumptions:

- Sales are projected to grow by 30% and data to estimate the WACC and tax rates are given to you on the last page.

Tasks:

1. Using the company's data, first, compute additional funds needed (AFN) for this company:

AFN formula is used when certain conditions are met:

First assume that the company is operating at full capacity; later recalculate the AFN if the company operated only at 80% of its capacity.

All assets and accounts payable and accruals grow proportionally with the sales,

The following year's profit margin and dividend payout level will be maintained.

Task: Compute the AFN for full capacity assumption as well as 80% capacity.

2.Use the pro forma approach using percent of sales method and make a one-year financial plan for the company under consideration.The iterations and based on your final pass when the balance sheet is balanced, first comment on the impact of the growth in sales on the balance sheet and income statement of the company. Then, analyze the evolution of the company's key ratios and compare it with status quo.

3.How would changes in these items affect the AFN?

The dividend payout ratio

The profit margin

The capital intensity ratio (A*/S0).

4.What is the overall situation of the company and what kind of policy changes would you recommend to the top management?