What is the name for a forecast of short-term events that helps a company understand if it has sufficient
cash? - ✔✔✔Cash budget
What is the purpose of a monthly cash budget? - ✔✔✔To control cash inflows and outflows so you can
balance income with expenditures and savings
In which situation would a firm need to borrow cash? - ✔✔✔When the beginning cash balance plus
the net cash is less than the minimum cash balance required for the month
How can you use the envelope method of budgeting to monitor cash flows? - ✔✔✔Put the amount of
money budgeted for each category of your expenses into labeled envelopes and then spend the money
in each envelope on expenses in that category.
How should you go about making changes to your budget? - ✔✔✔Prioritize the changes you want to
make and then implement them gradually one by one to make sure they work.
You are a financial manager of a company. The marketing department has informed you that the
projected sales growth for the upcoming year is 15%. As you conduct financial forecasting, you increase
cash, accounts receivable, and inventory accounts by 15%—the same as the projected sales growth.
What type of accounts are these? - ✔✔✔Spontaneous accounts
What does it mean when a firm's calculated discretionary financing needed (DFN) is negative? - ✔✔✔
The firm will have enough financing to fund projected sales.
Which account is a spontaneous account? - ✔✔✔Accounts payable
Why is the sustainable growth rate (SGR) useful? - ✔✔✔It gives the maximum growth rate that allows
a firm to maintain its current financial ratios without issuing new equity.