Butler Lumber Case Analysis Question 1 Butler Lumber, a retailer of lumber products in the Pacific Northwest area, experienced a time of growth in the spring of 1991 (Harvard College, 2002, p.1). The company looked to take out a loan to grow business operations. The maximum loan offer from Suburban National Bank was $250,000 (Harvard College, 2002, p.1). This loan also required a pledge of property from company owner, Mr. Butler, to secure it. However, Northrop Bank would offer a loan
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Case Analysis: Butler Lumber Company (2011-05-03 06:06:15) 转载▼ 标签：mbacorporatefinancecasestudybutlerlumber财经 | 分类： CorporateFinanceCaseStudy | HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL 9-292-013 REV: JANUARY 4, 2002 Butler Lumber Company To examine Butler’s current financial situation and to answer the question of how well Butler is doing are not an easy task. There are many things to look into. Let us start with net working capital. Net working capital= current assets- current liabilities
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Butler Lumber Company Financial Proposal Analysis & Conclusions Based on the analysis on Butler Lumber’s financial statements (Exhibit 1), we conclude that, for sole trader companies like this, it has been growing fast for the past years, as shown in an increase of Sales from 19% in 1989 to 34% in 1990. There is also a slow and steady growth in net income. Butler Lumber uses most of its cash in inventory, occupying 179,000 out of 475,000. Also, stocks’ SAF is positive for 1988-1990 and 1990-1991
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BA 5802 Financial Management Case Study 1 Emre BULUT Butler Lumber Company 2056281 | | | | | | | First Quarter | | | | | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | | | | | | | | | | | Current Ratio | (CA/CL) | | 1.80 | 1.59 | 1.45 | 1.35 | | Quick Ratio | ((CA-Inv)/CL) | 0.88 | 0.72 | 0.67 | 0.54 | | Inv. Turnover | (Sales/Inv) | 7.10 | 6.17 | 6.44 | 1.29 | | DSO | | (Rec*365/Sales) | 36.78 | 40.25 | 42.95 | 175.38 | | FA Turnover | (Sales/FA)
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Alabama Atlantic would like to determine the optimal shipping routes for its lumber and the amount to be shipped on each route, in order to minimize the total equivalent uniform annual cost. It is my understanding that the company has three sources of wood, with annual availabilities of 15, 20, and 15 million board feet respectively. Additionally, the company has 5 markets it sells to, which have annual demands of 11, 12, 9, 10, and 8 million board feet respectively. Because the estimated supply
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The Lumber Room (by H.Munro) The text under analysis is written by an outstanding British novelist and short story writer Hector Munro. Hector Hugh Munro (December 18, 1870 – November 13, 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, was a British writer, whose witty and sometimes macabrestories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives
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Ozark Furniture Company Ashford University MAT 221 “Maple rockers. Ozark Furniture Company can obtain at most 3000 board feet of maple lumber for making its classic and modern maple rocking chairs. A classic maple rocker requires 15 board feet of maple, and a modern rocker requires 12 board feet of maple. Write an inequality that limits the possible number of maple rockers of each type that can be made, and graph the inequality in the first quadrant.” Ozark Furniture Company In this paper
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the term used for a tree that has not yet been processed into lumber. On the contrary, lumber is generally accepted as the wood that is no longer attached to the ground and is often seen as the laid down or processed wood. Secondly, timber is usually the term used for a piece of wood that still has its bark on whereas lumber is usually bark-less in nature. The latter usually undergoes a drying process and has a firm finish to it. Lumber is often prepared with accurate measurements and is almost always
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Kemba Chambers December 2, 2013 Ozark Furniture Ozark furniture has 3000 board feet of maple lumber in stock. In order to make classic maple rockers they need 15 board feet of maple lumber. In order to make a modern rocker they need 12 board feet of maple lumber. So we need to process an inequality and graph it in order to be sure that we have enough of the maple lumber in stock to prepare orders. The first step is to define what variables that I will be using in my inequality
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the variety of sawmills distribution channel challenges. Keywords; Typology, distribution channel challenges, research needs, and Swedish sawmill industry 1. Introduction Softwood lumber is in many cases referred to as a commodity product (Roos et al, 2002) and it is thereby produced in general standard lumber sizes (Hansen et al, 2002). Competition amongst suppliers of commodity products is primarily based on price (Shapiro, 1979) and the focus is efficiency
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