Option 1: Your client works for Ace Company. Assume Ace Company requested a $3 million 10-year loan to purchase production equipment and develop accompanying software. Use the Ace Company Data document for this option. Option 2: Use a firm or scenario of your choosing. Before choosing a company, read the assessment thoroughly to ensure: The company fits the assessment requirements. You have access to the financial statements and related performance documents needed to assess risk and make a loan recommendation. You will need information for this year and last year. You can distribute the financial statements and related performance documents without disclosing confidential company information. Loan Recommendation To arrive at your recommendation, analyze the financial performance of the requesting company and present it to your organization’s upper-management team. The management team will take your recommendation into consideration as they finalize loan requests. Analyze the company’s performance and performance trends. Include the following in your analysis: Analyze the trend for accounts receivable collections. Identify the trend. Explain the relevance of the trend. Determine if the trend is improving or getting worse. Compare the company’s average inventory turnover to the industry average inventory turnover rate. Note that the average industry turnover rate for Ace Company is 10 times per year. Consider whether the company’s average inventory turnover is higher or lower than the industry average. Explain whether a higher or lower average is better. Determine whether the trend is improving or getting worse. Evaluate the company’s short-term and long-term credit worthiness based on financial performance and trend (comparing this year to last year). Include in your evaluation: Information about performance and trends. Information about other relevant financial information you consider important to the decision. Your recommendation regarding whether the bank should grant the loan based on the financial data.
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