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Professional Issues
  • Finance and Accounting in Business.

2
Learning Outcomes
  • Know and differentiate between the different
    sources of capital for business ventures.
  • Understand the importance of budgeting for a
    business.

3
Learning Outcomes
  • Understand the process involved in calculating
    costs and setting prices.
  • Been able to calculate assets depreciation.
  • Know the annual statements that need to be
    submitted by a company and understand the
    characteristics of each of them.

4
Class Contents
  • Need for capital and sources of funds.
  • Budgeting Sales and Expenditure.
  • Sales, Costing, Depreciation and Pricing

5
Class Contents
  • Annual Statements
  • The Balance Sheet
  • The Profit and Loss Account
  • Auditors Limitations and Responsibilities

6
Need for Capital
  • To start a new venture, there is always a need
    for money.
  • Invoices are normally issued at the end of the
    month.
  • Clients usually pay their invoice from 1 to 2
    months after receiving them.

7
Need for Capital Software Companies
  • There are more expenses
  • Salaries, however small, for the group and for
    any other staff they may employ.
  • Rent, rates, heating and lighting of the premises
    used.
  • Equipment and consumables.
  • Costs of advertising and marketing the products.
  • Miscellaneous expenses, ranging form company
    stationery to travelling expenses for any trips
    that may be necessary.

8
Need for Capital Software Companies
  • While packages are being developed, there will be
    no revenue coming into the company.
  • However successful the development of the
    packages, it will take some months before sales
    reach a level sufficient to cover the companys
    on-going costs, so even after development is
    complete, more cash will be needed

9
Need for Capital Business Plan
  • Raising Money Business Plan
  • The purpose is to explain the plans to potential
    funders and to convince them that
  • The plans are well thought out
  • The venture is likely to be successful.

10
Need for Capital Business Plan
  • A Business Plan Usually contains
  • A description of what the company will be doing,
  • information to show that the company is
    technically feasible and that founders of the
    company have the necessary expertise.
  • An assessment of the size of the market and the
    competition
  • A prediction of the financial performance of the
    company

11
Sources of Funds
  • Government policy in the UK has, over recent
    years, strongly encouraged the growth of small
    companies and, as a result, there are many
    possible sources of funding.
  • All sources of funding can be grouped in 3
    categories

12
Sources of Funds
  • Grants
  • Loans
  • Sales of Equity

13
Sources of Funds - Grants
  • A Grant is a sum of money given to a company by
    another organization.
  • The company is obliged to demonstrate that it has
    been used for the purpose for which it was
    intended.
  • It is not intended that the grant should ever be
    paid back to the organization which gave it .

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Sources of Funds - Grants
  • Availability of Grants
  • Government (Local or National)
  • European Commission Sources
  • Charities
  • Very often, grants are limited to a certain
    proportion of the money spent on a particular
    development and are conditional upon the
    remainder being raised from other sources

15
Sources of Funds - Grants
  • Availability of grants for new companies depend
    on
  • Where the company is located.
  • How many people it expects to employ.
  • On government policy at the time.

16
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • A Loan is a sum of money lent to the company.
  • Interest have to be paid at a rate that may be
    fixed or variable.
  • The loan is usually for a limited period.

17
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • The company is liable to pay back the loan and,
    if the company goes into liquidation, the lender
    is entitled to recover the loan from the sale of
    the assets of the company.
  • In most cases, security is required for the loan
  • The loan is associated with assets owned by the
    company in much the same way that a mortgage is
    associated with a house.

18
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • Loans can be divide into 3 categories
  • Overdraft
  • Long-term loans
  • Soft Loan

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Sources of Funds - Loans
  • Overdrafts They are offered by banks and allow a
    company (or an individual) to spend more money
    than is in its account, up to a specified
    maximum.
  • Interest is only payable to the amount that is
    actually owed.
  • Interest is usually very low.

20
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • Advantages
  • Most flexible and cheapest way to borrow.
  • Drawback
  • A bank can withdraw overdraft facilities without
    warning.

21
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • Long Term Loans Are usually made for a fixed
    period of time and have a fixed interest.
  • The borrower receives the capital at the start of
    the period of the loan
  • He is committed to paying interest on that amount
    through the period of the loan.

22
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • Provided the borrower pays the interest on time,
    the lender cannot call in the loan.
  • The borrower must repay the capital at the end of
    the period

23
Sources of Funds - Loans
  • Soft Loans Are available to start up companies
    as a result of government initiatives.
  • It is a loan on terms which are less demanding
    than those that prevail for commercial loans.
  • The interest rates may be lower than commercial
    interest rates and security is not demanded.

24
Sources of Funds Equity Capital
  • Equity capital is money paid to the company in
    exchange for a share in the ownership of the
    company.
  • The relationship between loan capital and equity
    capital in a company is important and it is known
    as gearing.

25
Sources of Funds Equity Capital
  • Shareholders are at a much greater risk of
    getting a poor return on their capital or even
    losing it completely than are lenders.
  • In compensation for this, they stand to make
    greater profit than lenders if all goes well.

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Gearing Example
  • A company has a share capital of 100 and a loan
    capital of 10.000 at 10.
  • If the company makes an operating profit of
    1.000, the interest charges will consume all the
    profits and the shareholders will receive
    nothing.

27
Gearing Example
  • If the companys operating profit doubles, to
    2.000, the lender will still receive 1.000 but,
    neglecting taxation and assuming that all the
    profit is distributed to the shareholders, the
    shareholders will receive 1.000, a rate of
    return of 1000
  • As the profit increase, the value of the company,
    and hence the value of the shares, increases.
  • If the company is sold, the shareholders will get
    much more than their original 100 investment,
    but the lender will still only be entitled to
    their original 10.000, plus interest.

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Gearing Example
  • If the company is unsuccessful and goes into
    liquidation, the lenders will be at the front of
    the queue of people to whom money is owed,
    whereas the shareholders will get nothing until
    everyone else has bee paid in full

29
Budgeting
  • A Budget is a prediction of the future financial
    position of an organization covering the current
    or the next financial year.
  • A complete budget will include predictions for
    the annual financial statements.

30
Budgeting
  • The Annual Financial Statements Contain
  • Balance Sheet.
  • Profit and Loss Account.
  • Auditors Report.
  • The ordinary manager in a company is much more
    concerned with budgeting for income and
    expenditure than with other aspects of budgeting.

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Budget Example - Expenditures
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Budgeting
  • Budgeting is an iterative process.
  • Adjustments to the budget need to be made
    repeatedly until budgeted sales exceed budgeted
    expenditure with a reasonable profit margin.

33
Budgeting
  • The first version of the budget is likely to show
    expenditure exceeding income.
  • Operating managers will want to expand their
    operations while the sales and marketing
    department will not wish to give hostages to
    fortune by being over-optimistic about the volume
    of sales it can generate.

34
Budgeting Sales and Order Intake.
  • Monitoring the level of sales is an important
    managerial activity and needs to be supported by
    adequate information.
  • The amount of sales in a month is the total value
    of the invoices issued during the month
  • The order intake is the total value of the orders
    received.

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Budgeting - Costing
  • The price at which an organization decides to
    sell a product or a service depends on
  • The cost of producing the product.
  • The market conditions. (price and availability of
    competing products, elasticity of the demand)

36
Budgeting - Costing
  • The cost of producing an item or providing a
    service is not a well-defined quantity.
  • Different definitions of cost need to be used for
    different purposes.

37
Budgeting - Costing
  • Costs can be grouped into four categories
  • Raw materials and bought-in items.
  • Costs of equipment.
  • Direct labour costs
  • Overheads.

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Budgeting Raw Materials
  • Materials which are bought by a company and
    processed as part of the companys manufacturing
    process are known as raw materials.
  • Examples
  • Steel bought by motor manufacturers.
  • Sulphur bought by chemical companies to
    manufacture sulphuric acid.

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Budgeting Bought in items
  • Companies also buy items that are incorporated,
    unchanged, into their products. Such items are
    known as bought-in items
  • Examples
  • Computer manufacturers buy ICs from specialist
    suppliers.
  • Motor manufacturers buy door locks to incorporate
    in the cars.

40
Budgeting Costs of Raw Materials and Bought in
Items
  • There is no difficulty in determining how many of
    which bough-in item, or how much of each type of
    raw material, goes into the final product.
  • A company which uses chips or sulphur will
    usually carry a stock

41
Budgeting Costs of Raw Materials and Bought in
Items
  • it is quite likely that not all the stock was
    purchased at the same time or at the same price.
  • It may not be known from which batch the chips or
    the sulphur used in producing a give unit of
    output came,
  • how do we decide which price to use in assessing
    its costs?

42
Budgeting Costs of Raw Materials and Bought in
Items
  • The usual practice is to adopt a FIFO policy for
    costing regardless of the order in which the
    items or materials are used.
  • The cost of the oldest batch is used until a
    quantity equal to the size of that batch had been
    used, and then the cost of next batch is used in
    the calculations

43
Budgeting Costs of Raw Materials and Bought in
Items
  • In the case of raw materials or bought-in
    components whose price may fall dramatically as a
    result of over-supply, a FIFO policy for costing
    may render a companys prices uncompetitive and
    the current cost then has to be used instead.

44
Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • The cost of a unit of output from an asset
    depends critically on its utilization.
  • Example What is the cost of owing a car?

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • A car is bought for 10,000.
  • It was kept for 3 years and then sold for cash.
  • Each year the car was used for 10,000 miles.

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • The effects of inflation is going to be neglected
    (The price of a new equal car remains the same
    all the time).
  • The selling price of the car is expected to be
    4,200
  • (the exact figure will depend on the make and
    model of the car, the physical shape of the car
    and the geographical location).

47
Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • Different Costs Involved
  • Depreciation Is the difference between what was
    paid for the car and the price it was sold for
  • Interest that needs to be paid on borrowed money
  • Opportunity costs Are cost generated as a result
    of being unable to take up another opportunity of
    using the capital
  • Example putting the money in the bank to
    generate interest at a fixed rate. Instead of
    buying the car. (at 3 generate 927)

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • These costs are called fixed costs that is, they
    do not vary with the amount that we use the
    equipment.
  • Other examples of fixed costs include road tax
    (140/year) and insurance (700/year).

49
Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • variable costs are costs which vary in
    proportion to the amount that the equipment is
    used.
  • The most obvious of these cost in the car example
    would be fuel.

50
Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • Example Assuming price of fuel 0.7/lt and
    average consumption is 10 miles/lt
  • The cost per mile will be

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • Other variable costs vary in a less smooth
    manner
  • Example A set of tyres will last for some
    40,000 miles if they are properly looked after a
    replacement set might cost 200.
  • This gives a cost of 0.5p per mile for wear and
    tear of the tyres.
  • Since only 30,000 miles have been covered at the
    moment of sale, nothing should have been spent in
    the replacement tyres.

52
Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • Servicing costs are similar in nature assuming
    that servicing is needed every 10,000 miles (at
    150/service) and the service is not done just
    before selling the car, two services will need to
    be added to the cost of the car.

53
Budgeting Cost of EquipmentCost of Owing a Car
for 3 years
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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • If the costs are distributed over the 30,000
    miles that have been driven in the car, the cost
    per mile will be 38.82p.
  • This cost per mile is very dependant on how many
    miles we drive in the three year period, that is,
    on the utilization of the car.
  • If the mileage is doubled (60,000), allowing for
    additional fuel and servicing plus 200 for a new
    set of tyres and 500 for repairs, the total cost
    will rise to 14,897 and the cost per mile will
    fall to 24.82p

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • This car example is what economists would call an
    ex post calculation.
  • It is based on a knowledge of what actually
    happened to the asset (car)
  • It can only be carried out after the asset has
    been sold (or disposed at scrap value).

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • For costing a piece of machinery in industry, an
    ex ante estimate of what will happen is needed.
  • This is an estimate that can be made at the start
    of the life of the machine.

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • This also means making assumptions about what
    happens to the average machine of that type in
    the same environment.
  • The same type of calculation will be carried out
    (excluding the lost of capital) but depreciation
    needs to be looked at more carefully.

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Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • Depreciation can be looked at in two ways
  • As the reflection of the diminishing value of the
    item both its market value and its value to the
    company as its life passes.
  • As a way of distributing the cost of owning the
    item over the work which it produces.

59
Budgeting Cost of Equipment
  • There are several ways of calculating
    depreciation.
  • The two most commonly used are
  • Straight Line Depreciation
  • Reducing Balance Depreciation

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Budgeting Depreciation
  • Calculation Parameters
  • Initial cost of a unit of the produced item C
  • Life of the item (likely) in years n
  • Resale or scrap value of the item (reached at the
    end of the item life) S

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Depreciation Straight Line
  • Then the annual depreciation is calculated as

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Depreciation Straight Line
  • The VALUE of the item at the end of year m is
  • Straight line depreciation is simple and adequate
    for many purposes. In particular it is a
    reasonable way of distributing the cost of owning
    the item over its useful lifetime.

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Depreciation Reducing Balance
  • If we want the depreciated value of the asset to
    reflect its diminished market value, straight
    line depreciation is unrealistic.
  • The resale value of an asset normally falls much
    more in absolute terms during the earlier years
    of its life than during the later years.

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Depreciation Reducing Balance
  • The reducing balance method of calculating
    depreciation reflects this.
  • A factor r (0ltrlt1) is chosen as the fraction by
    which the value falls in each year

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Depreciation Reducing Balance
  • Using Reducing Balance, the annual depreciation
    will be
  • An the price of the asset at the end of year m
    will be

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Depreciation Reducing Balance
  • The value of the factor r should allow for the
    scrap price to be reached at the end of the life
    of the asset
  • With the reducing balance method, the value of
    the asset can never fall to zero. The effect of
    no resale value can be obtained assigning S1

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Budgeting Depreciation
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Budgeting Depreciation
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Budgeting - Depreciation
  • For the purpose of internal costing, a company is
    free to use whatever methods it wishes for
    calculating depreciation.
  • In its published accounts the same method must be
    used for all assets of the same type
  • It is common to use the same methods for internal
    costing as are used in published accounts.

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Budgeting Cost of Labour
  • The costs of labour are basically all the costs
    associated with an employee of the company.
  • If an employee works for one hour in order to
    produce an item, what cost should we attribute to
    the employees time?

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Budgeting Cost of Labour
  • First, the total cost of the employee needs to be
    calculated
  • Example Suppose the annual salary of the
    employee is 15,000.
  • In addition to the salary, the company is obliged
    to pay what is known as the Employers National
    Insurance Contribution.
  • This depends on the salary in a rather
    complicated way for a salary of 15,000, it
    comes to about 1,500.

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Budgeting Cost of Labour
  • If the company runs a pension scheme, then it is
    normal for the employer as well as the employee
    to make a contribution to this
  • We will assume that the employer contribution is
    6 (900).
  • In some cases, there may be other allowances
    payable, such as car allowances or clothing
    allowances (which we will ignore for this
    example).

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Budgeting Cost of Labour
  • The total cost of employing the employee for the
    year is

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Budgeting Cost of Labour
  • Second, the number of hours worked in a year
    needs to be calculated
  • Assuming a five day week, there are 260 possible
    working days in a year. I
  • If there are 20 working days of holiday plus 8
    days of public holidays, the number of possible
    working days is reduced to 232.
  • We must make some allowance for days off for
    sickness. The best that can be done is to take
    the average of the company as a whole, since we
    cannot predict what will happen to an individual
    employee this might be 8 days.
  • This brings the total of days worked down to 224

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Budgeting Cost of Labour
  • If we assume a seven hour day, the number of
    hours worked is 1568. The cost per hour is
    therefore

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • Some costs like raw materials, use of specific
    machinery and some labour costs, can be directly
    associated with specific products or services.
  • Therefore they are taken into account directly in
    determining prices.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • Other costs cannot be directly associated with
    specific products or services
  • sales and marketing costs
  • managers costs.
  • costs related to the preparation of bids.
  • They must still be covered by the total revenue.
    These are called Overheads.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • Some of the overheads can be associated with
    specific parts of the organization and should be
    covered by the revenue earned by those parts
    these are called departmental overhead.
  • Other overheads can only be associated with the
    whole organization these are known as corporate
    overheads.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • The concept of an overhead may vary from one
    organization to another
  • A software house based at a single site may find
    it impracticable or not worthwhile to associate
    the cost of rent, rates, heating and lighting
    with individual projects or departments it will
    therefore treat those as corporate overheads.
  • A computer manufacturer producing peripherals on
    one site, processors on another, and system
    software on a third, will treat the cost of these
    premises as departmental overheads.
  • A company that runs a number of aluminium
    smelters at different sites will associate costs
    of each site with the aluminium produced there.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • There is no right way of allocating overheads
    to individual parts of the organization or to
    individual products.
  • How it is done depends partly on the policy of
    the organization and partly on the nature of the
    overhead.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • There are two basic approaches to handle
    overheads as costs
  • overheads can be added to costs of the inputs
    (labour, machine time, etc.)
  • or they can be added to the costs of the outputs
    (products and services).
  • In a software house, overheads are usually
    recovered by adding them to the direct labour
    costs.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • A manufacturing company is more likely to recover
    overheads by adding a mark-up to the direct cost
    of each product.
  • It is usual to make the amount added for
    overheads a fixed percentage of the costs to
    which it is being added, whether this is an input
    or an output.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • With the overall constraint that all overheads
    must ultimately be recovered from revenue, the
    following principles should apply to the way that
    overheads are distributed
  • Consistency similar costs should be treated in
    similar ways.
  • The treatment of overheads should encourage
    managers to behave in ways which optimize the
    performance of the company as a whole rather than
    just the performance of their own department.
  • The treatment of overheads should not distort the
    price structure of the companys products so as
    to make them uncompetitive.

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Budgeting - Overheads
  • It should be remarked that it is easier to
  • enunciate these principles in general than
  • it is to implement them in practice.

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Budgeting - Pricing
  • The prices that a company charges for its
    products and services are ultimately constrained
    by the long-term requirement that the revenue
    from its trading operations must exceed the costs
    of those operations.
  • For a company which provides a range of products
    and services, the unit price of each item can be
    adjusted to maximize the companys profit and
    need not necessarily be related to the cost of
    providing the item

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Budgeting - Pricing
  • Using Math
  • A company produces n products.
  • The cost of producing a unit quantity of product
    i is ci.
  • The quantity of product i which can be sold at a
    unit price of pi is

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Budgeting - Pricing
  • The trading profit can be expressed as

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Budgeting - Pricing
  • It is desirable that the choice of pi is done in
    a way that it maximizes this equation.
  • This choice of the pi will be constrained by
    limitations on the qi resulting from the fact
    that the company only has limited resources and
    cannot produce indefinitely large quantities of
    any of the products

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Budgeting - Pricing
  • For most companies, the way in which qi depends
    on pi is much too uncertain for this approach to
    be useful.
  • Pricing in such circumstances is usually based on
    the cost of producing the product or providing
    the service, plus a percentage for profit

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Budgeting - Pricing
  • In some industries, it is normal to discount
    prices for quantity or for favoured customers so
    that published prices must be sufficiently high
    to allow a sale to be profitable even after
    discounting.

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • Software companies are faced with pricing in
    three contexts
  • Pricing a bid to provide services, such as
    consultancy, design or programming, with payment
    based on the effort supplied (time and
    materials).
  • Pricing a bid for a contract to supply software
    at a fixed price.
  • Pricing a software product which they have
    developed or for which they are agents.

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • Biding for Time and Materials
  • The price will depend on the cost of labour plus
    overheads.
  • The price may need to be modified to take into
    account a number of factors

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • Factors
  • How badly the company needs the business
  • The Desirability of the client
  • The general level of the market
  • All the factors will affect the pricing offered
    to gain the bid for the contract.

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • Fixed Price Contract
  • All the costs need to be calculated beforehand
  • Estimation of resources needed
  • Cost of Labour Travel and Subsistence Expenses
  • Costs for Bought in products (maintenance,
    operating costs, floor space, insurance, etc.)

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • Costs of financing the work (due to usual delay
    in payments)
  • Costs of servicing the final product (to cover
    guarantee period)
  • Increase in price according to level of risk
    perceived in the contract (can be up to 50
    additional.

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • Pricing Software Products
  • The resource used in developing the products
    should be known and from these the costs of the
    development calculated .
  • The costs of maintaining and supporting the
    product must also be estimated
  • They usually consists on a fairly substantial
    fixed cost plus a small variable element
    depending on the number of copies sold.

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Budgeting Pricing in Software Companies
  • The cost of selling the product must also be
    taken into account (Strategies for level of sales
    are different)
  • PRICING IS CRITICALLY DEPENDANT ON THE STIMATE OF
    LIKELY SALES

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The Annual Statement
  • There are three important annual statements that
    a company must supply according to the Companies
    Act 1985
  • Balance Sheet
  • Profit and Loss Account
  • Auditors Report

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Balance Sheet
  • A Balance sheet is a snapshot of the financial
    state or an organization at a single instant
    (normally the end of the organizations financial
    year).
  • It shows the value of what the organization owns
    (assets) and what it owes (liabilities).

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Balance Sheet
  • A Balance sheet must balance
  • the total assets and the total liabilities should
    be equal.
  • To achieve this, a balancing item needs to be
    included on one side of or the other
  • This item is usually labelled excess of asset
    over liability

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Balance Sheet
  • In commercial balance sheets, the assts and
    liabilities are grouped into various categories
    and a single figure is given for each category.
  • There will be several notes to the balance
    sheet describing the basis of the account and
    giving more detail about certain items such
    items will cross reference the notes

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Balance SheetExample
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Balance Sheet
  • Assets are divided into
  • Fixed Assets
  • Current Assets
  • Liabilities are also divided into
  • Current Liabilities (due in less than 1 year)
  • Long Term Liabilities

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Balance Sheet - Fixed Assets
  • They contribute towards the company productive
    capacity
  • They depreciate according to the company
    depreciation policy
  • They can also be subdivided into
  • Investments
  • Tangible Assets
  • Intangible Assets

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Balance Sheet - Current Assets
  • They are items which are bought and sold in the
    course of the companys day to day trading
    activities.
  • They must be valued at the lower of cost and net
    realizable value (the money that would be
    obtained by selling them, less any expense of the
    sale)

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Balance Sheet - Current Assets
  • Manufacturing companies will usually have items
    in their list of current assets covering stock of
    finished products or raw materials.
  • Contracting companies will usually have an item
    for amounts recoverable on contracts or work
    in progress, that is work being carried out
    under contract to clients that has not yet been
    billed.

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Balance Sheet - Current Assets
  • The valuation of any of these items is subject to
    a degree of uncertainty.
  • The finished goods have not yet been sold it
    might prove impossible to sell them.
  • The work in progress value on a software contract
    may be based on the assumption that the software
    is 90 complete, but software projects have been
    know to remain 90 complete for a very long time

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Balance Sheet - Liabilities
  • The liabilities section of a commercial balance
    sheet effectively distinguishes between current
    liabilities, and long term liabilities.
  • It is usual practice to arrange current
    liabilities next to current assets in the balance
    sheet so that they can be deducted to give a
    figure for net current assets

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Balance Sheet - Liabilities
  • The phrase provisions for liabilities and
    charges refers to items which the company knows
    it will have to pay but whose precise amount may
    be uncertain
  • Example tax on previous years earnings which
    has still to be assessed.
  • work which may have to be carried out by the
    company under warranty.

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Balance Sheet Net Assets
  • It is customary to show how the net assets have
    come about
  • Using the Example
  • Called-up share capital is the face value of the
    shares that have been issued.
  • The figure from the profit and loss account is
    the total value of the profits and losses made by
    the company since it was established
  • The share premium reserve is the extra money
    raised when shares have been sold at above their
    face value

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The Profit and Loss Account
  • A profit and loss account shows what has happened
    to an organizations financial position over a
    period of time (usually 1 year).
  • It records the money received and the money spent
    during the period.
  • It is also known as income and expenditure
    account in the case of non-profit making
    organizations.

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The Profit and Loss Account
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The Profit and Loss Account
  • There is a distinction between cost of sales
    and other operating expenses.
  • This distinction is an uncertain one and some
    companies do not show the items separately.
  • Example For a package software company, there is
    a real difference between the expenditure on
  • Selling, printing documentation, installing
    software, etc. all of which are the costs of
    sale
  • The development of new versions of existing
    packages or on new products, which would come
    under the heading of other operating expenses.

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The Profit and Loss Account
  • The bottom line of the profit and loss account
    shows the retained profit for the year, that is
    the profit not paid out in tax or dividends to
    shareholders.
  • This profit is added to the cumulative retained
    profit in the previous years balance sheet to
    give the value of the retained profit shown in
    the new balance sheet.

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Auditors Report
  • The Companies Act 1989 requires that company
    accounts should be accompanied by an auditors
    report.
  • The purpose of the report is to provide members
    of the company and the public at large with an
    assurance that, in the opinion of the auditors,
    the accounts give a true and fair view of the
    state of the affairs of the company

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Auditors Report
  • It is important to understand the limits of
    auditors responsibilities.
  • Accounting standards permit the figures in the
    annual statements to be presented in a variety of
    different ways.
  • The auditors responsibility is limited to
    certifying that the accounts have been prepared
    in accordance with these standards
  • Auditors have no authority to question whether
    the particular choices are the most appropriate
    for the company, provided that they are used
    consistently

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Auditors Report
  • there is the issue of whether the company is a
    going concern.
  • is the company is likely to survive its next
    financial year?
  • Example
  • The balance sheet and the profit and loss account
    present a picture of a healthy company.
  • The auditors can certify is true and fair,
  • and yet the company has little chance of
    surviving the next twelve months (depending on
    the type of trade).

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Auditors Report
  • If auditors have reason to suspect that the
    company is a going concern, they are expected to
    carry out procedures to test the position.
  • Typically they examine cash flow predictions and
    seek assurances that suitable credit facilities
    will be available over the next 12 months.
  • If they have no such suspicion, they are not
    required to take such action

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Auditors Report
  • The primary responsibility for preventing and
    detecting fraud lies with the directors of the
    company, not with the auditors.
  • Auditors, however, do have a responsibility to do
    their work in such a way as to have a reasonable
    expectation of finding anything seriously
    misleading in the financial statements.
  • If they find evidence of fraud, they have the
    duty to report it to the directors.
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