TS309 Week 8 - Dollars and Sense of Your Business SG-2019
TS309 Week 8 - Dollars and Sense of Your Business SG-2019
TS309 Week 8 - Dollars and Sense of Your Business SG-2019
SEMESTER 1 - 2019
Week 8
• Assets
• Liabilities
• Cashflow
• Sales
• Direct costs (Cost of Sales)
• Expenses
• Venture Capital
• Bank loan
• Financing
• Line of credit
• Overdraft
• Projections
• MSME : Micro-Small-Medium
Enterprises
Reading
• Chapter 7 of textbook
• pp.95-116
Learning Outcome 1
• Needed to :
– support planning
process
– obtain financing
– make informed
pricing decisions
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Learning Outcome 2
• Proforma
statements
• Budgets
• Cash flow forecasts
Proforma Statements
• Can be helpful in
answering the “what if”
questions surrounding
financial forecasts
• Allows you to
determine the impact
of changing sales
volumes or prices
Sensitivity Analysis cont.
Learning Outcome 3
• Comparative
analysis
• Common size
analysis
• Ratio analysis
• Break-even
analysis
Comparative Analysis
• Sales Growth =
(Sales this year - Sales last year)/Sales last year
• Profit Growth =
(Profit this year - Profit last year)/Profit last year
• Asset Growth =
(Assets this year - Assets last year)/ Assets last year
• Debt Growth =
(Debt this year - Debt last year)/ Debt last year
Learning Outcome 4
• Useful in determining at
what point your
business starts to make
money
• Can provide valuable
information on
incremental profits
generated with each
sale
Which costs?
3. Break-even point
= Fixed costs/ Contribution
per sales dollar
Break-Even Example
If : Estimated sales = $98,000
Variable costs = $45,000
Fixed costs = $40,000
3. Break-even point
= Fixed costs ($40,000)/Contribution per sales dollar
($0.54)
= $74,074
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Learning Outcome 5
• Underestimating how
much to start the business
• Most common error in
MSME startups
• Good ideas that are
underfunded FAIL!
• You will need more
money than you
anticipate
• Build in a “fudge factor”
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Learning Outcome 6
Learning Outcome 7
• leasing or renting
equipment instead of
buying
• contracting out services
• minimising operating
costs
• implementing booking
deposits and
cancellation fees
TS309 – TOURISM BUSINESS OPERATIONS
SEMESTER 1 - 2019
TUTORIALS WEEK 8
Business Plan Briefings
Stuart Gow
[email protected]
TS309 – TOURISM BUSINESS OPERATIONS
SEMESTER 1 - 2019
Stuart Gow
[email protected]
TS309 – TOURISM BUSINESS OPERATIONS
SEMESTER 1 - 2019
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