Accounts receivable is a legally enforceable claim for payment from a business to its customer/clients for goods supplied and/or services rendered in execution of the customer’s order. These are generally in the form of invoices raised by a business and delivered to the customer for payment within an agreed time frame. Accounts receivable is shown in a balance sheet as an asset. It is one of a series of accounting transactions dealing with the billing of a customer for goods and services that the
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The ability to sell inventory and collect receivables is critical. In this topic‚ we discuss three ratios that measure this ability. Inventory Turnover. Companies generally strive to sell their inventory as quickly as possible. The faster inventory sells‚ the sooner cash comes in. Inventory turnover‚ measures the number of times a company sells its average level of inventory during a year. A fast turnover indicates ease in selling inventory; a low turnover indicates difficulty. A value of 6 means
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early 1894 by a persistent man named Milton Hershey (Hinkle). Milton Hershey was born in Derry Church‚ PA on September 13‚ 1857. As a child Hershey and his parents‚ Henry Hershey and Fannie Hershey‚ relocated many time. Hershey went to seven schools within eight years and by the fourth grade he was taken out to work with a printer as an apprentice. In 1872 Hershey left the printers shop to work in a confectioner’s shop near Lancaster‚ PA. Not long after Hershey discovered an interest in candy making
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Corporate soCial responsibility sCoreCard 2010 The Hershey Company 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Scorecard outlines our progress in advancing the priorities we established in our 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. We understand that operating a sustainable‚ competitive business requires a commitment to improving our economic‚ environmental‚ and social performance. This scorecard shows how we performed against the goals published in our 2009 CSR Report as well as against newer
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CHAPTER 7: NOTES RECEIVABLE * Notes receivable are claims supported by formal promises to pay usually in the form of notes. * A negotiable promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another‚ signed by the maker‚ engaging to pay on demand or fixed determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. * Maker is the one who writes the promissory note promising to pay another person‚ known as the payee‚ a definite sum of money. * Notes
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Hershey CEO defends company strategy * February 4‚ 2010 * source: just-food Hershey president and CEO Dave West has stood by the US chocolate maker’s strategy and insisted the company can deliver “long-term value” for shareholders. The business‚ which generates the bulk of its revenues in the US‚ has faced questions over its future growth after deciding not to bid for UK confectioner Cadbury. Hershey has ventures in Brazil‚ India and China but industry watchers have argued the company’s international
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A PROJECT REPORT ON A STUDY ON RECEIVABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF ONLINE ADVERTISING BUSINESS OF TIMES INTERNET LIMITED A report submitted towards the partial fulfillment of the requirement of the two years full time Post-graduate Diploma in Management Submitted By: MINAKSHI GUPTA POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT Roll No: 2K81A56 PGDM GENERAL (2008-2010) Asia Pacific Institute of Management 3 & 4 Institutional Area‚ Jasola‚ Sarita Vihar‚ New
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Liquidity ratios measure a company’s ability to meet its maturing short-term obligations. In other words‚ can a company quickly convert its assets to cash without a loss in value if necessary to meet its short-term obligations? Favorable liquidity ratios are critical to a company and its creditors within a business or industry that does not provide a steady and predictable cash flow. They are also a key predictor of a company’s ability to make timely payments to creditors and to continue to meet
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INTRODUCTION: UNIFLEX CABLES LIMITED appointed interns to study the receivables position of their company. I was asked to analyze the data of the past six months starting from October’08 to March’09. I had to analyze the debtors’ payment pattern for that period and find out the reasons why there was a delay in receiving payments from the debtors’. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY: • Compare Actual Date of Receipt from customers with the Payment Due Date. • Find out the number of days delay
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Accounts Receivable Management • Introduction • Goals of Receivable Management • Credit Management • Optimum Credit Policy • Credit of Account Receivable 155 Introduction Accounts receivable represent the amount due form customers (book debts) or debtors as a result of selling goods on credit. “The term debtors is defined as ‘debt’ owned to the firm by customers arising from sale of goods or services in the ordinary course of business.” The three characteristics of receivables the element
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