Transcript Chapter 12
Chapter 12
Operations Management: Financial
Dimensions
RETAIL
MANAGEMENT:
A STRATEGIC
APPROACH,
9th Edition
BERMAN
EVANS
Chapter Objectives
To define operations management
To discuss profit planning
To describe asset management,
including the strategic profit model,
other key business ratios, and financial
trends in retailing
To look at retail budgeting
To examine resource allocation
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Profit Planning
Profit-and-loss (income) statement
– Summary of a retailer’s revenues
and expenses over a given period of
time
– Review of overall and specific
revenues and costs for similar
periods and profitability
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Major Components of a
Profit-and-Loss Statement
• Net Sales
• Cost of Goods Sold
• Gross Profit
(Margin)
• Operating Expenses
• Taxes
• Net Profit After
Taxes
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Net Sales
$330,000
CGS
$180,000
Gross Profit
$150,000
Operating
Expenses
$ 95,250
Other Costs
$ 20,000
Total Costs
$115,250
Net Profit before
Taxes
$ 34,750
Taxes
$ 15,500
Net Profit after
Taxes
$ 19,250
Asset Management
The Balance Sheet
– Assets
– Liabilities
– Net Worth
– Net Profit Margin
– Asset Turnover
– Return on Assets
– Financial Leverage
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Figure 12.1
The Strategic Profit Model
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Other Key Business Ratios
Quick Ratio
Current Ratio
Collection Period
Accounts Payable to Net Sales
Overall Gross Profit
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Financial Trends in Retailing
Slow growth in U.S. economy
Funding sources
Mergers, consolidations, spinoffs
Bankruptcies and liquidations
Questionable accounting and financial
reporting practices
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Funding Sources
Mortgage refinance (due to low interest
rates)
REIT (retail-estate investment trust) to fund
construction
– Company dedicated to owning and
operating income-producing real estate
Initial public offering (IPO)
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Figure 12.2 Rebuilding Kmart
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Budgeting
Budgeting outlines a retailer’s planned
expenditures for a given time based on
expected performance
Costs are linked to satisfying target
market, employee, and management goals
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Figure 12.3 The Retail
Budgeting Process
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Budget Benefits
Expenditures are related to expected performance
Costs can be adjusted as goals are revised
Resources are allocated to the right areas
Spending is coordinated
Planning is structured and integrated
Cost standards are set
Expenditures are monitored during a budget cycle
Planned budgets versus actual budgets can be
compared
Costs/performance can be compared with industry
averages
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Preliminary Budgeting Decisions
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Specify budgeting authority
Define time frame
Determine budgeting frequency
Establish cost categories
Set level of detail
Prescribe budget flexibility
Cost Categories
Capital expenditures
Fixed costs
Direct costs
Natural account expenses
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Ongoing Budgeting Process
Set goals
Specify performance standards
Plan expenditures in terms of performance
goals
Make actual expenditures
Monitor results
Adjust budget
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Resource Allocation
• Capital
Expenditures
– Long-term
investments in
fixed assets
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• Operating
Expenditures
– Short-term selling
and administrative
costs in running a
business
Enhancing Productivity
A firm can improve employee performance,
sales per foot of space, and other factors by
upgrading training programs, increasing
advertising, etc.
It can reduce costs by automating, having
suppliers do certain tasks, etc.
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