Aggressive versus conservative seasonal funding strategy Dynabase Tool has forecast its total funding requirements for the coming year as shown in the following table:
a. Divide the firm's monthly funding requirement into (1) a permanent component and (2) a seasonal component, and find the monthly average for each of these components.
b. Describe the amount of long-term and short-term financing used to meet the total funds requirement under (1) an aggressive funding strategy and (2) a conservative funding
strategy.
Assume that under the aggressive strategy, long-term funds finance permanent needs and short-term funds are used to finance seasonal needs.
c. Assuming that short-term funding costs
5%
annually and that the cost of long-term funding is
10%
annually, use the averages found in part a to calculate the total cost of each of the strategies described in part
b.
Assume
that the firm can earn 3% on any excess cash balances.
d. Discuss the profitability-risk trade-offs associated with the aggressive strategy and those associated with the conservative strategy.
Extracted text: Data Table (Click on the icon here in order to copy the contents of the data table below into a spreadsheet.) Month Amount Month Amount January $2,000,000 July $11,000,000 February $2,000,000 August $16,000,000 $2,000,000 $9,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 March September April $5,000,000 October May $6,000,000 November June $8,000,000 December $5,000,000