BUSINESS REPORT ON ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARD PLC
Introduction
Electronic Board Plc is an organization established by an electrical engineer, John Watsons in the early 1970s as a sole proprietorship venture. The main business of the company is the production of electronic circuit boards. The company later on through dint of hard-work, developed into a public limited liability company. It maintained remarkable business success which climaxed in 1990, when it recorded an appreciable sales margin of £26 million and a profit after tax of £1.9m, using staff strength of 200 employees. The good business records of this company truncated in 1992, when it started experiencing heavy dwindling fortunes by recording abysmal drop in total sales
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This is shown by the fact that their decisions support financing the procurement of modern technology that can improve the firm’s production quality.
(3) The availability of a management accountant in their employ can be utilized as an opportunity to remedy losses due to misguided capital expenditures.
(4) The company already has a name in the electronic board making industry. These four points of strengths and opportunities, if effectively guided by management accounting system, will improve the returns to capital invested.
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A PANACEA FOR
THE RESCUE OF THE ELECTRONIC BOARD PLC
According to Will S, Ray H, & Eric E.N. (2009), management accounting is a branch of accounting that is concerned with providing information to managers who direct and control the firm’s operations. Management directing function seeks to effectively use both the human and raw material wealth of a firm to achieve organizational set objectives on routine basis. Controlling function is the art of tele-guarding the activities of the organization to consistently fall in line with set objectives. Management accounting achieves this function through effective budgeting.
EFFECTIVE BUDGETING SYSTEM
Budget is a comprehensive business plan for procuring and appropriating a firm’s financial resources over a specified time period. One of the identified problems of the Electronic Board Plc is that
Electro Inc. is fast developing company which strive to build a high tech wonder company image, it also has clear market segmentation and specific strategies to penetrate this segment. However, in recent report, the company’s financial statement indicates that the company experience financial difficulties at this moment. Some managers believe that this difficulty is largely due to two projects – Series A and Mercury. In this case analysis I will examine these two projects and make some recommendations for the company’s management as a whole.
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What is a budget? A budget forecasts the financial results and financial position of a company for one or more future periods. A budget is used for planning and performance measurement purposes, which can involve spending for fixed assets, rolling out new products, training employees, setting up bonus plans, controlling operations, and so forth (Bragg, 2017).
* A broader capital base gives the company more access to credit which gives the company an option to venture into new business opportunities
The management of the Telebox Corporation will have to come up with measures such as the use of low grade solders, the use of technology that will address the wastage of wires when a roll of 30 cm is purchased by the company, going for a supplier that sells the circuit board at a lower cost and automation of the organization’s operations to reduce the costs associated with labor. The reduction in the cost gaps will end up leading to the increase in the profitability and productivity of the Telebox Corporation.
The company is also increasing its market share continuously through mergers and acquisitions. These lead to synergetic advantages. The modified portfolio makes it to be better equipped to serve the people.
c. Ensures efficient use of resources by making significant investments in the positions that provide the greatest opportunity for improvements in business performance.
Budgets are used by businesses and individuals to ensure that the end result is positive. A budget is basically a plan used by businesses and individuals to ensure enough money is available for current and future commitments and
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Net profit needs to increase along with simultaneously increasing return on investment and cash flow. Now all that is needed is to put his specific operations in those terms.
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