All right, let's check out a ratio here, the cash to monthly cash expenses. So this is more of an internal ratio that gets used here to manage our cash at the company. So the cash to monthly cash expenses, it considers this hypothetical situation. If we let's say we stopped receiving cash right now. If all our cash just what we had right now and we needed to continue to operate our business. Well, how long could we operate before we run out of cash and just can't pay for anything anymore? Okay? So this situation, it comes up a lot in healthcare industries. Because when we think about healthcare, well a lot of the money comes from the government, through Medicare payments or through third parties, through insurance companies or something like that. Right? So if you, for some reason, the government, maybe you're supposed to receive most of your income, most of your cash coming from the government through Medicare or Medicaid. Well what if the government all of a sudden said, hey, Medicare payments are going to stop. Whatever it is, the president says no more Medicare. Doesn't matter what it is. Well, how long could you operate, right? Before you run out of cash? Well, that could be an important question, right? So what we call these monthly cash expenses, we call it the cash burn, right? Because we're running through our cash, we're burning it up. Okay? So here's how we're gonna calculate our cash to monthly cash expenses. Well, we're going to have our cash balance at year end. How much cash did we have and how much were those monthly expenses, right? So this is going to give us it's gonna give us a number of months. Okay? So this will give us a number of months that we could operate before we ran out of cash and we would just be stuck. So sometimes we calculate our monthly cash expenses, if they didn't give it to us directly, we could get the outflows from our operating activities on the statement of cash flows. So this would come from the statement of cash flows. Remember on our statement of cash flows, we would have 3 sections. We would have an operating section that shows all of our operations. And this is where we would see these expenses, right? The cash that we're spending on these expenses from operations. Then there's gonna be another section on the cash flow statement is the investing section and this deals with buying and selling fixed assets, long-term assets. And finally, there's a section, the financing section where we deal with our banks, with our debt holders, and, our equity, our stockholders okay? We don't have to get into too much detail about the statement of cash flows, that's for another discussion. But this is where we could get our cash outflows is from the statement of cash flows in that operating section because that's what deals with the operations with the business itself. So remember that the statement of cash flows is generally going to show a whole year, so we would get those cash outflows and divide it by 12. They're usually just gonna tell you what those cash outflows are straight up and you usually won't have to do so much calculation. This is a pretty rare ratio in general. So you're going to want to double-check if your teacher actually even cares about this ratio. It doesn't come up very often. Okay? But in the end, it's pretty easy. So if your professor does use it, you don't wanna miss these points because it's easy money. Alright? Let's go ahead and practice this ratio now.
14. Financial Statement Analysis
Ratios: Cash to Monthly Cash Expenses
14. Financial Statement Analysis
Ratios: Cash to Monthly Cash Expenses - Online Tutor, Practice Problems & Exam Prep
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Ratios: Cash to Monthly Cash Expense
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ProblemThe Liquid Company had a cash balance at the end of the current year of $14,511. If the monthly cash expenses total $3,495, how long could Liquid stay in business before going bankrupt, assuming no cash inflows?
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4.15 months
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3.12 months
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6.33 months
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Not enough information
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ProblemTougher Company's had the following data for 2018 and 2017:
What was the increase or decrease in the ratio of cash to monthly cash expenses in 2018?
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Increase 5.3 months
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Decrease 5.3 months
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Increase 8.1 months
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Decrease 8.1 months