After dissolution of Tandon Committee guidelines (Known as Maximum Permissible Bank finance – MPBF), except state bank of India (SBI) which is the largest commercial bank in the country, no other bank has come out with any guidelines for assessing the working capital.
Working
Capital Assessment
After dissolution of Tandon
Committee guidelines (Known as Maximum Permissible Bank finance – MPBF), except
state bank of India (SBI) which is the largest commercial bank in the country,
no other bank has come out with any guidelines for assessing the working
capital. Most of the banks are virtually following same MPBF with or without
slight modification. Other banks are very closely watching the SBI guidelines
for slowly adopting the SBI guidelines in one form or the other. The methods,
which are being followed by the SBI, are as follows.
1. Projected
Balance Sheet method: It is the statement, which provides details regarding
anticipated sales revenues, expense, assets and liabilities on a future date.
Out of this information a firm can easily project requirements of the working
capital.
2. Cash
budget method: It is primarily concerned with anticipated sources and
application of cash for future period. This is very useful to the management to
plan for raising adequate cash and appropriates investment of surplus cash. In
general the cash budgets are prepared on a monthly basis.
3. Turnover method: This is a
simple method of estimating working capital requirements. According to this
method, on the basis of past experience between sales and working capital
requirements, a ratio can be determined for estimating the working capital
requirements in future. For example, if the past experience shows that working capital has been 25% of sales and it is estimated
that the sales for the next year would amount to Rs.1 lakh, the amount of
working capital requirement can be assessed as Rs. 25,000.
Tags : Financial Management - WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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