Best Financing Option Analysis for Business Expansion

ASSIGNMENT #2 – BUSINESS 100 NAME: LISA WASHINGTON Background information needed to answer Question #1: Review Shaun's criteria below to determine the best financing option to expand his business: SHAUN’S CRITERIA Hi Team, I wanted to provide you some guidelines as you determine how we’ll finance our expansion. Please give this careful consideration, as we need to get this right. 1. I estimate we’ll need $150,000 to increase capacity in order to stock the five additional pop- up stands 2. We’ll need to make sure we have additional funds available to increase our marketing efforts to stimulate demand 3. Cash flow is going to be tight, so I’d like to minimize interest payments 4. I’d like to maintain or increase our profit margins 5. Since I don’t have a lot of experience with big discount retailers, I’d like to add a thought partner with experience in this channel 6. If we’re successful over the next two years, we’ll likely seek additional capital to expand into more stores, so I’d like to do all we can now to enhance our credibility We need to move on this quickly, so I’d like an answer by the end of the week. -Shaun FINANCING OPTIONS As we have learned, there are pros and cons to all financing methods which of the three financing methods would be the best fit based on Shaun's criteria above? Option 1: Equity Raise $150,000 from a venture capital firm in exchange for 30% of the company Option 2: Debt Secure a loan of $150,000 at a 10% annual interest rate, to be repaid over 7 years Option 3: Debt + Self-Financing Secure a loan of $100,000 at a 7% annual interest rate, to be repaid over 7 years, and self- finance the remaining $50,000

QUESTION 1: Based on your analysis of the owner's wishes (Shaun's criteria) and the three financing options available, which financing option would be the best option? X Option 1: Equity  Option 2: Debt Option 3: Debt & Self Financing Include your answer your response below and also explain why you selected that type of financing based on Shaun's criteria and what you know about that financing option. Background information needed to answer Question #2: A junior accountant is working to get everything in order for the new financing and has come to you with a question about what do next in the accounting cycle. Read this email from the junior accountant so you can determine what steps of the accounting cycle she has already completed and what is the next step to complete. I chose Equity Financing because Shaun expressed that he would like to minimize interest payments as well as enhance credibility and add a thought partner. Even though this option will require Shaun to turn over 30% of the business to the investors, it provides everything that Shaun is looking for to expand his business.

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As a refresher, here are the 5 Steps to the Accounting Cycle:

QUESTION #2: So, given what the Junior Accountant has done so far, what is the next step for the Junior Accountant to complete in the Accounting Cycle and why ? Background information needed to answer Question #3: A potential investor has been identified, but before they are willing to commit, they have requested information about SunsTruck’s current debt from the junior accountants. You have been charged with reviewing the financial statements (found in the resources) and providing direction to the junior accountant to comply with the request from the potential investor: Identify the correct financial statement for your junior accountants that will provide the investor with the information it has requested. From the email it appears that Jenna has already captured each financial transaction as well as grouped similar transactions, the next step for Jenna would be to summarize where Jenna would add up similar transactions to make them easy to understand.

QUESTION #3: After reviewing the 3 Financial Statements, please indicate which financial statement (pick one: income statement, balance sheet, or statement of cash flows) the Junior Accountant should provide the investor in order to show the debt information.  Income Statement X Balance Sheet  Statement of Cash Flows Explain where on that financial statement you would find the debt information. NEXT STEP: SUBMIT YOUR WORK 1. Save this document to your desktop  Navigation: select file at the top, save as – select desktop, and select save 2. Log into your class and select Assignment #2 on the left, scroll down and select “submit your work”, click browser my computer, find your file on the desktop, click open, then click submit. 3. If you have any issues email me or call me. I will provide you assignment feedback and you can then make any changes you would like and resubmit for grading. Congrats on completing assignment #2! According to what I have learned in accounting, you would find the debts summarized under liabilities on the balance sheet. To get this total you would find total liabilities in the liabilities portion of the balance sheet and total assets in the assets portion of the balance sheet. Then you would divide total liabilities by total assets to get the debt ratio.

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