short term financing needs

Assignment 1: Discussion—Short-Term Financing Needs

1. After reading your report, as well as comments by others on the teams, the Genesis team began to understand the importance of cash flow and financing in high-growth scenarios. The Genesis accountant suggested that the focus should be on developing a financial strategy that would ensure operational needs are met through short-term financing. The Genesis team instructed Sensible Essentials to explain in basic terms the factors and mechanics necessary to determine short-term financing needs. 
   
   As the finance expert for Sensible Essentials, do the following:
   
   
   • Explain the concept of working capital and its importance to Genesis.
   • Describe the mechanism and methodology used to ensure that operational needs are met through short-term financing. Explain why this methodology is important to Genesis.
   • Explain how working capital represents the assets that are needed to carry out the day-to-day operation and how working capital can act as a source of financing or increase the need for financing.
   
   In your response, be sure to consider the time value of money and the relative advantages and disadvantages of short-term loans versus internally generated funds.

1. Please complete the mini case found on page 171–172 of your textbook, Brigham and Ehrhardt.

Your initial should be no more than 500 to 750 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Saturday, March 22, 2014, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, March 26, 2014, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. In your response, do the following: