Optimization of the company's cash flow
This book is about the company's treasuries and financial management, more specifically; it shows how a company can manage its treasury in an efficient and short way.
This book is about the company's treasuries and financial management, more specifically; it shows how a company can manage its treasury in an efficient and short way.
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2.2 - The influence <strong>of</strong> investment on <strong>the</strong> <strong>cash</strong> <strong>flow</strong>s through depreciation.<br />
In <strong>the</strong>ory; <strong>the</strong> depreciation is a privileged tool to finance <strong>the</strong> <strong>company's</strong> expansion. Specifically it is <strong>the</strong> most<br />
important <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two sources <strong>of</strong> self-financing, <strong>the</strong> second being <strong>the</strong> undistributed pr<strong>of</strong>its. Any new investment will<br />
contribute to grow <strong>cash</strong> <strong>flow</strong> available to <strong>the</strong> company through additional appropriations to depreciation.<br />
(a) Tax depreciation and <strong>cash</strong> <strong>flow</strong>.<br />
Depreciation is an element <strong>of</strong> taxes’ <strong>cash</strong> <strong>flow</strong>s, and can <strong>the</strong>refore be used to finance investments. However, it can<br />
be shown that <strong>the</strong> practice <strong>of</strong> ‘depreciation” allows <strong>the</strong> company to have a monetary mass replacement <strong>of</strong> technical<br />
capital needs.<br />
Representing an investment <strong>of</strong> price P, in 10 years in a linear fashion, and value depreciable residual zero at <strong>the</strong> end<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tenth year. If revenues are sufficient, <strong>the</strong> available money supply will be:<br />
P/10 during <strong>the</strong> second year, 2P/10 during <strong>the</strong> third…etc., 9/10 for <strong>the</strong> tenth.<br />
These funds may be used for any use in fixed capital or circulating. Everything happens as if <strong>the</strong> company "could<br />
borrow from itself" an amount equal to:<br />
Apart from any consideration <strong>of</strong> updating, <strong>the</strong> money available to <strong>the</strong> firm for 10 years will be:<br />
P/10 + 2 P/10 + 3 P/10 +... + 9 P/10 = 4, 5 P.<br />
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