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Unit - 5 Working Capital Financing
Unit - 5 Working Capital Financing
GREATER NOIDA
Unit – 5
Financing of Working Capital
By
Dr. Riyazuddin
Designation
Assistant Professor
School of Management
NIET, GREATER NOIDA
Working Capital Financing
Working capital financing is used to fund your company’s investment in short-term assets
such as accounts receivable and inventory, and to provide liquidity so that your company can
fund its day-to-day operations including payroll, overhead and other expenses.
• Smoothens out fluctuations, in cash flow due to seasonality or a large, slow-pay customer.
• Lender or finance company requirements. Borrower may need to modify its credit,
billing and collection practices to conform.
• Restrictive covenants. Working capital loans require various financial and operational
covenants by the borrower.
• Working capital financing is used to fund your company’s investment in short-term assets
such as accounts receivable and inventory, and to provide liquidity so that your company
can fund its day-to-day operations including payroll, overhead and other expenses.
• Working capital smoothens out fluctuations, in cash flow due to seasonality or a large, slow-
pay customer.
• A cost-benefit analysis is the process of comparing the projected or estimated costs and
benefits (or opportunities) associated with a project decision to determine whether it makes
sense from a business perspective.
• Identify the goals and objectives you’re trying to address with the proposal. What do you
need to accomplish to consider the endeavor a success?
• Decide what metric you’ll be using to measure and compare the benefits and costs. To
accurately compare the two, both your costs and benefits should be measured in the same
“common currency.”
• Direct costs and benefits will be the easiest to assign a rupee amount to.
Indirect and intangible costs and benefits, on the other hand, can be
challenging to quantify.
• That does not mean you shouldn’t try, though; there are many software options
and methodologies available for assigning these less-than-obvious values.
• If the costs outweigh the benefits, ask yourself if there are alternatives to the proposal you
haven’t considered.
• Accrued wages refers to the amount of liability remaining at the end of a reporting period
for wages that have been earned by hourly employees but not yet paid to them.
• This liability is included in the current liabilities section of the balance sheet of a business.
• Accrued wages are recorded in order to recognize the entire wage expense that a business
has incurred during a reporting period, not just the amount actually paid.
• The accounts payable process or function is immensely important since it involves nearly all
of a company's payments outside of payroll.
• The accounts payable process might be carried out by an accounts payable department in a
large corporation, by a small staff in a medium-sized company, or by a bookkeeper or
perhaps the owner in a small business
To safeguard a company's cash and other assets, the accounts payable process should have
internal controls. A few reasons for internal controls are to:
• The borrower should take such loans for financing permanent working capital
needs. The cost of interest would not allow using such loans for temporary
working capital.
• The best part is that the interest is charged to the extent the money is used and not on the
sanctioned amount which motivates him to keep depositing the amount as soon as possible
to save on interest cost.
It should be used for the purpose of business. Can be used for any purpose
Balance Sheet, P & L account , VAT reports is required be Financial statements are generally not required to be
submitted to bank generally annually or quarterly. resubmitted after approval.
• The difference between the bill amount and the amount paid is the fee of the
invoice discounting to the company. The fee will depend on the period left
before payment date, amount and the perceived risk.
• The bills or invoices under bill discounting are legally the 'bill of exchange'. A
bill of exchange is a negotiable instrument which is negotiable mere by
endorsing the name.
• In the case of bill discounting, such bills can be either payable to the bearer or
payable to order. Therefore, after discounting a bill, a bank can further get the
bill discounted from other banks in case of cash flow requirement.
• Commercial paper is usually issued at a discount from face value and reflects
prevailing market interest rates. Commercial paper is an unsecured and
discounted promissory note issued to finance the short-term credit needs of
large institutional buyers.
• The third party here is known as the 'factor' who provides factoring services to
business.
• The factor would not only provide financing by purchasing the accounts but
also collects the amount from the debtors.
• The credit risk of nonpayment by the debtor is borne by the business in case of
with recourse and it is borne by the factor in the case of without recourse.
• Secured term loan is a loan granted to the business where the borrower then pledges some
form of security or collateral against the loan.
• Trade credit is a short-term credit extended by suppliers of goods and services in the normal
course of business, to a buyer in order to enhance sales.
Sources of funds:
Long Term Sources
Short Term Sources
It is believed that this type of working capital will be needed constantly
Retained Earnings:
1. Part of earned profit
2. Regular & Costless source
2. Non-recurring nature
• Private money-lenders and other country bankers used to be the only source of finance prior
to the establishment of commercial banks.
• They used to charge very high rates of interest and exploited the customers to the largest
extent possible.
• Now-a-days with the development of commercial banks they have lost their monopoly.
• Trade credit refers to the credit extended by the suppliers of goods in the normal course of
business.
• As present day commerce is built upon credit, the trade credit arrangement of a firm with its
suppliers is an important source of short-term finance.
• Generally, interest is charged on the unpaid price or it may be adjusted in the price.
• But, in any case, it provides funds for some time and is used as a source of short-term
working capital by many business houses which have difficult fund position.
• Some business houses get advances from their customers and agents against orders and this
source is a short-term source of finance for them.
• It is a cheap source of finance and in order to minimize their investment in working capital,
some firms having long production cycle, specially the firms manufacturing industrial
products prefer to take advances from their customers.
• A commercial bank may provide finance by discounting the bills or invoices of its
customers.
• Accrued expenses are the expenses which have been incurred but not yet due and hence not
yet paid also.
• These simply represent a liability that a firm has to pay for the services already received by
it.
• The most important items of accruals are wages and salaries, interest, and taxes.
• Deferred incomes are incomes received in advance before supplying goods or services.
• They represent funds received by a firm for which it has to supply goods or services in
future.
• These funds increase the liquidity of a firm and constitute an important source of short-term
finance.
• Commercial paper represents unsecured promissory notes issued by firms to raise short-
term funds.
• It is an important money market instrument in advanced countries like U.S.A. In India, the
Reserve Bank of India introduced commercial paper in the Indian money market on the
recommendations of the Working Group on Money Market (Vaghul Committee).
• Commercial paper represents unsecured promissory notes issued by firms to raise short-
term funds.
• It is an important money market instrument in advanced countries like U.S.A. In India, the
Reserve Bank of India introduced commercial paper in the Indian money market on the
recommendations of the Working Group on Money Market (Vaghul Committee).
Financial Stability
Economic Management
Consumer Protection
Reserve Requirements
Capital Requirements
Lending Limits
Qualitative Supervision
Previously working capital finance provided by the banks to trade and industry was
regulated by the Reserve Bank of India through a series of guidelines / instructions issued.
The banks were also expected to ensure conformity with the basic financial disciplines
prescribed by the RBI from time to time under Credit Authorization Scheme (CAS).
The assessment of working capital requirement of borrowers, other than SSI units, requiring
fund based working capital limits up-to Rs.1.00 crore and SSI units requiring fund based
working capital limits up-to Rs.5.00 crore from the banking system may be made on the
basis of their projected annual turnover.
The assessment of working capital requirement of borrowers, other than SSI units, requiring
fund based working capital limits up-to Rs.1.00 crore and SSI units requiring fund based
working capital limits up-to Rs.5.00 crore from the banking system may be made on the
basis of their projected annual turnover.
In accordance with guidelines, the working capital requirement is to be assessed at 25% of
the projected turnover to be shared between the borrower and the bank, viz. borrower
contributing 5% of the turnover as net working capital (NWC) and bank providing finance
at a minimum of 20% of the turnover.
Banks may evolve an appropriate system for assessing the working capital credit needs of
borrowers whose requirement are above Rs.1 crore.
Banks may adopt any of the under-noted methods for arriving at the working capital
requirement of such borrowers.
The turnover method, as prevalent for small borrowers may be used as a tool of assessment
for this segment as well.
Since major corporates have adopted cash budgeting as a tool of funds management, banks
may follow cash budget system for assessing the working capital finance in respect of large
borrowers.
The banks may, at their discretion, carry out the assessment based on projected turnover
basis or the traditional method.
If the credit requirement based on traditional production / processing cycle is higher than
the one assessed on projected turnover basis, the same may be sanctioned, as borrower must
be financed upto the extent of minimum 20 per cent of their projected annual turnover.
In order to provide flexibility in the assessment of credit requirements of borrowers based
on a total study of borrowers' business operations, i.e., taking into account the production /
processing cycle of the industry as well as the financial and other relevant parameters of the
borrower.
The banks have also been permitted to decide the levels of holding of each item of
inventory as also of receivables, which in their view would represent a reasonable build-up
of current assets for being supported by bank finance.
To meet the contingencies, banks may decide on the quantum and period for granting ad hoc
limits to the borrowers based on their commercial judgment and merits of individual cases.
While granting the ad hoc limits the banks must ensure that the aggregate credit limits
(inclusive of ad hoc limits) do not exceed the prescribed exposure ceiling.
In respect of borrowers enjoying fund-based working capital credit limits of Rs. 5 crore and
more from the banking system, the banks are required to ensure that the book-debt finance
does not exceed 75 per cent of the limits sanctioned to borrowers for financing inland credit
sales.
The remaining 25 per cent of the credit sales may be financed through bills to ensure greater
use of bills for financing sales.
Banks may change the composition of working capital by increasing the cash credit
component beyond 20 per cent or increase the loan component beyond 80 per cent, as the
case may be, if they so desire.
Banks are expected to appropriately price each of the two components of working capital
finance, taking into account the impact of such decisions on their cash and liquidity
management.
Industries generally availed short term credit from banks in excess to the amount based on
their growth in production
Utilization of short tem bank credit for raising non current assets.
Bankers did not try to evaluate total financial position of the borrower through cash flow
analysis
Appraisal of the credit application should be made in reference to total financial position, as
shown by cash flow analysis.
A customer should confine its dealing with one bank only to eliminate double or multiple
financing.
Bank credit has been granted on the basis of security available rather than level of operation
borrower’s business.
Banker should have knowledge about end use of bank credit just to ensure that it is for the
purpose for which it was sanctioned
First Method
Second Method
Third Method
At least 25% of Current Assets should be arranged by long term sources & the gap will be
provided by the bank
Borrower has to arrange finance through long term sources for all Core Current Assets
(CCA) and 25% of the balance Current Assets.
Review was specially to be made with reference to the gap between sanctioned credit &
extent of their utilization.
Separate rate limits for peak level & non peak level requirements.
All borrowers having WC limit of Rs 50 lac or more (Earlier limit was Rs 1 crore)
All borrowers having WC limit of Rs 50 lac or more (Earlier limit was Rs 1 crore)