Financial Planning, Sources, and Project Evaluation: Radisson Plc

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of financial planning for Radisson Plc, covering various aspects such as procurement, utilization, and management of funds. It explores traditional and non-traditional financial sources, including retained profits, ownership capital, bank loans, hire purchase, and factoring, while also highlighting the legal, financial, dilution, and bankruptcy implications of each. The report identifies loans as a suitable option for Radisson Plc due to tax benefits and control retention. It further discusses the benefits of financial planning, information needs of stakeholders, and the differences in financial reporting requirements for various organizational structures. The document also delves into the cost of equity versus debt financing, emphasizing the advantages of loan financing, and concludes with an overview of project evaluation techniques for making informed investment decisions.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
A..............................................................................................................................................................3
B..............................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................................7
A..............................................................................................................................................................7
B..............................................................................................................................................................7
C..............................................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3........................................................................................................................................................10
A............................................................................................................................................................10
B............................................................................................................................................................12
C............................................................................................................................................................12
TASK 4........................................................................................................................................................14
A............................................................................................................................................................14
B............................................................................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Financial planning refers to the process of procurement, utilization and proper
management of money to control overspending, meet capital as well as daily business need,
maintain cash surplus and so on. Every company involves in such activities may be either to start
a new business or expand existing business in new markets. This assignment will guide an
individual about various ways through which they can gather money to meet out their financial
commitments. Moreover, the report will also highlight the key differences among all the sources
on the basis of legal, financial, dilution, and bankruptcy implications to identify the best source
of money. Along with this, report will guide about various managerial techniques that how
money can be managed properly through financial planning and cash budgeting. Apart from this,
sometimes, businesses require huge amount of funds to pay capital expenditures like to buy
property, machinery and equipments. It can drive both the risks and return to the entity,
henceforth, companies have to identify the project that will yield better return. In order to fulfill
that objective, project evaluation techniques will be considered best as it examine both the risk
inherited and possibility of return so as to determine the most profitable and beneficial project.
At the closure of the report, it will analyze differences in the financial reporting requirement of
different organizations i.e. sole trader, partnership and company.
TASK 1
A
In order to finance long-term contract, Radisson Plc can choose any of the below
mentioned sources or combination of one or more financial source depending upon the time
period and amount of money. It can be categorized into three parts, that are explained hereunder:
Traditional financial sources:
Retained profits: Sum of profits that not had been reinvested or distributed among
shareholders by Radisson Plc is called retained or residual yield (Broadbent and Cullen 2012). It
can be used by the company to meet out their capital need for the contract without any legal
obligation and financial cost.

Ownership capital: It refers to the money invested by shareholders and can be used for
large expenditures, new product development, setting new plant and business expansion. In such
regards, listed companies can opt for either right issue or deferred ordinary shares to raise
money, whereas unquoted companies can issue shares over the counter market. There are two
options available to Raddison Plc, one is issuance of ordinary shares and second is preference
shares. Out of these, ordinary investors have right to vote and share company’s profits, however,
preference share holders are just entitled to get a fixed rate of dividend.
Non-ownership capital:
Bank loan: Radisson Plc can typically borrow money from the lenders and meet their
financial commitments. In this, money can be raised at a predetermined interest rate along with a
fixed schedule of repayment.
Hire purchase: It allows business unit to use an asset in regular operations without the
requirement of paying complete buying price at the point of purchase. It is because; company
just need to pay some amount of money as initial or down payment and remainder can be paid in
equal periodical instalments.
Factoring: Radisson Plc can discount their outstanding invoices to raise money, generally
used to resolve the financial difficulties of cash shortage. In this, factoring company charges
some interest and repays remaining balance that is generally equal to 85% of the total invoice
amount.
Implications of financial sources:
Source Legal Financial Control transfer Bankruptcy
Retained profit No legal
obligations
exists.
No financil cost
involved in
utilizing profits.
Ownership rights
are available to
shareholders
only.
No bankruptcy.
Owners capital Following stock
exchange
regulations and
Dividend to the
shareholders to
fulfill their return
Equity or
ordinary
shareholders
Owners have
liability to repay
capital to the

altering the
authorized
capital clause in
memorandum of
association.
expectations. On
prefernce share, it
is fixed, whereas,
equity shares have
ownership over
residual earnings
(Huang, Ritter and
Zhang, 016)..
Moreover, cost of
issuing shares,
printing and
administrative fees
are also included in
financial cost.
have authority to
make business
decisions,
henceforth, it
transfer
controlling
power to owners.
lenders, creditors
and other
external parties,
after that, firstly,
capital will be
repai
d to preference
share holders and
remmaining
money is
available to
equity
shareholders.
Bank loan Legal formalities
with bank loan
processing and
procedural
requirement is
necessary (Drury,
2013). Moreover,
Radisson Plc
may be require to
file their finacial
statements and
keep any assets
as collateral
security to
provide financial
security to
lenders.
Interest needs to
paid on right time
which may be fixed
or fluctuating.
On short-term loan
period, bank
charges a low rate
of interest,
however, on long-
term they charge
higher interest rate.
Lenders have no
authority to vote
in the board
meetings,
henceforth, they
do not have right
to take corporate
decisions.
Lenders are the
first priority,
henceforht, if
Radisson Plc
declared
banckrupt
investors will
pay money first
to the lenders.

Hire purchase Vendor and
Radisson Plc
needs to arrange
a contract,
containing all the
terms and
conditions.
Interest on the
amount of
installments
depending upon the
duration of renting
is financial
obligations.
Not exists. Original asset
owner can get
back their assets,
if business goes
banktupt (Huang,
Ritter and Zhang,
016)..
Factoring Factoring
company and
Radisson Plc
agree with each
other to discount
outstanding
invoices.
A discount that is
charges by the
factoring
organization to
deliver fund before
maturity date is its
financial
implication.
Not exists. They have right
to receive money
from the original
debtors.
B
Out of above discussed sources, loans are considered suitable for Radisson Plc. The
reason behind this is although loan impose liability to the company to pay a fixed rate of interest
on a right time. But still, if corporate manage profitability and cash flows accordingly, than it can
meet out their debt obligations and minimize tax obligations also. It is because in UK, taxation
authority Her Majesty Revenue and Customer (HMRC) declare that the amount of taxes which
companies paid on their borrowings will not be taxed, alternatively, we can say interest as
deductible or allowable expenditures (Drury, 2013). One more reasons for suggesting loans is that
if owner wants to put their control over business functioning than they can easily do it with debt
utilization. It is because; it prevents transfer of ownership to the others, as a result, managers can
make decisions by themselves without any involvement of external parties such as lenders.

TASK 2
A
Cost of equity versus debt financing: As said earlier, that on equity share capital,
Radisson Plc is not liable to pay predetermined rate of return (Huang, Ritter and Zhang, 2016).
Moreover, the cost of issuing and printing shares, listing fees in stock exchange and
administrative fees are also included in cost. However, on the other side, on the borrowed
money, Radisson Plc’s financial executives have to manage cash flows so as to pay installments
on due date and repay borrowed money on maturity date. It also has to file its annual accounts to
represent information to the lenders about their financial status, profitability, solvency, debt
burden capacity, interest payment ability and credit worthiness (Sources of funds, 2014). Although,
rate of dividend on equity is not fixed, while on debt capital, it is fixed, but still, loans are
considered beneficial because tax benefits are available on loan facilities. Moreover, equity
capital transfer controlling power to owners whereas it is not so with the borrowed money. All
the evaluation clealry depicts that loan financing are considered cheaper source of finance as
compared to equity, therefore, Radisson Plc must chose this source.
Interest is the cost of debt as Radisson Plc will be requires to pay dividend to the debt
holders as per their loan repayment schedule. However, it provides tax benefits to the fim as
HMRC consider payment of loan as an allowed expense for tax determination.
On the other side, cost of equity is dividend about which company does not have any
legal compulsion, henceforth dividend payment decisions can be taken on the basis of
availability of profitability.
B
Financial planning, also called monetary planning refers to the process of meeting
financial goals through the proper and effective utilization of money. It consists of various
functions such as setting targets, analyzing current financial status, estimating future capital
requirement and coming with a suitable strategic plan or approach to reach goals (De Wit, 2016).
The benefits of the financial planning are described here underneath:
 Prior and advance planning provides direction to the Radisson Plc’s managers about the
way how they can utilize resource optimally and manage cost.

 It also works as an insurance against financial risk which enables Radisson Plc to take
necessary steps to overcome financial risk and adverse shocks like high cost of debt,
sudden increase in supplier prices, and downward movement in demand and so on
(Broadbent and Cullen, 2012).
 With the help of the best financial strategy and plan, management of the firm will be able
to manage effectively their revenues and allocate it in regular functioning, so as to make
sure surplus or positive cash balance.
 It enables Radisson Plc’s executives and directors to formulate various growth, expansion
and development plans and strategic move to reach targets (Huang, Ritter and Zhang,
2016).
 It helps corporate entity to gather sufficient or appropriate quantity of capital sources
from the most suitable financial source at an affordable cost of capital.
Information need
Every person or organization that have some interest or concern in Radisson Plc and
affected by its policies, actions and objectives are called stakeholders. Some of the key
stakeholders along with their information requirement are enumerated underneath:
System developers: It consists of analyst, system designers, programmers, quality
assurance team, trainers and Radisson Plc’s project managers which have high level of stake in
specification of final product as per the customer requirement. System development team highly
focuses to develop software as per the actual requirement or preferences of people.
Users/Consumers: People or businesses that finally operate Radisson Plc’s developed or
designed software are called users. They require information about product features, frequency
of system usage, and experience of system usage and so on. They will only use particular product
or service if it fulfill their expectations.
Legislators: Professional bodies, trade union, quality assurance auditors, legal
representative, governmental agencies and safety executors are called legislators who produce
guidelines and principles affecting designing, developing and operating process of the system.
They need information to know that whether Radisson Plc has complied with acts or not like
Data Protection Act, defense standard, quality manual, auditors by an external auditor and so on

(Speybroeck and et.al., 2015). Moreover, taxation agencies like HMRC gather information about
corporate taxes so as to make it sure that Radisson Plc paid correct amount of taxes on time or
not. If company does not follow any of the law and principle than it gives right to the authority to
charge law suit.
Decision-makers: It encompasses development team managers, financial controller and
other executives. They have power to alter decisions regards to system or software development,
operational processes and set standards.
Shareholders: They just want to make sure that Radisson Plc will pay good return to their
investors as a financial return for the money being invested. They examine risk associated with
their fund, potential yield, business profitability, dividend policy and stock performance to make
solid investment decisions.
Lenders: They lend money after satisfying themselves that Radisson Plc’s executives and
directors will pay timely their fixed loan liability as per the repayment schedule. Moreover, they
assess capital structure to examine financial risk, business capacity to bear more debt burden and
interest payment ability, profitability, liquidity and solvency position also (Coleman, Cotei and
Farhat, 2016).
Employees: Employees are interested in the business to get better salary for respective
efforts, good working conditions, training, welfare activities and various growth opportunity for
their career advancement.
C.
Source of finance Income statement Balance sheet
Equity capital In income statement, profit
residue after meeting out all the
expenditures is reported as net
earnings, out of which, dividend is
distributed to the investors and
remainder is called retained profit
(Esteban-Guitart and Moll 2014).
In balance sheet, equity capital
is reported as shareholder’s
equity and remainder profits
after dividend distribution,
called surplus is also addded
in total shareholders’ equity
(De Wit, 2016).
Moreover as per double entry

accounting, in the assets side,
it increase total cash balance
of the Radisson Plc.
Debt financing In profit and loss account, debt
interest is shown as financial cost
and minimizes earning after
interest.
In balance sheet, it is shown
under the head long-term
liabilities.
However, in the assets side,
similar to equity financing, it
raises liquidity sources in the
form of more cash.
TASK 3
A
It is important for Radisson Plc to effectively manage their cash funds so as to eliminate
potential threats due to shortage of money and carry out operations successfully. Cash planning
refers to the prediction of cash incoming and outgoing resulting from future course of actions or
operational activities. With reference to the current scenario, its cash budget is prepared here as
under:
Table 1 Cash budget
Novembe
r
Decembe
r
Januar
y
Februar
y March April
Opening balance 9000 37100 69000 96600 118000
Sales 40000 45000 50000 47000 42000 45000
Total 40000 54000 87100 116000 138600 163000
Expense
Purchase 4000 4200 4500 5000 5600 5200
Salary 8000 8200 8400 8600 9000 900
CAPEX 15000 0 0 0 0 0
Creditors 4000 4500 5200 5800 6000 5000
Total 31000 16900 18100 19400 20600 11100
Net balance 9000 37100 69000 96600 118000 151900
Interpretation

From the cash budget given above it can be seen that cash balance of the firm is
increasing consistently. It can be noted that rate of growth in the value of cash flow is high in the
month of November, December, January and February. However, in other months trend get
changed and growth rate decline sharply (Huang, Ritter and Zhang, 2016). It can be seen from
the budget that sales increase in first three months. Thereafter ti declined sharply and on last
month of the budget it again increase. Interesting fact is the even sales get declined firm
expenses elevate consistently. In last month which is April decline is observed in sales. This
reflects that firm is not tracking changes in the business environment properly. On hope that
business conditions will get improved firm consistently made expenses in the month when sales
is reduced. Firm needs to take its business decisions cautiously.
Table 2 Sales budget
Novembe
r
Decembe
r January
Februar
y March April
Forecasted sales units 400 450 500 470 420 450
Price per unit 100 100 100 100 100 100
Total sales 40000 45000 50000 47000 42000 45000
Interpretation
It can be observed from the sales budget that sale of the firm is increasing consistently in
the first three months. However, in the month of February and March sales get decline. Recovery
is observed in same in the month of April. It can be said that sales of the firm is fluctuating.
Explanation of budgets:
Budgets represents a summary of forecasted or anticipated revenues and expenditures
that indicates the results of future business activities.
Benefits of cash budget:
 Forecasting results of potential revenues and spending
 Helps to determine financial problems due to lack or shortage of money
 Facilitates to determine net cash availability
 Enable Radisson Plc’s managers to make optimum or effective utilization of resources
 It can be used to reward or deliver incentive to the employees as per their achievement

 Helps to accomplish financial goals by controlling expenditures and generating target
revenues
B
Fixed cost 40000
Variable cost 80000
Total cost 120000
Number of units 300
Per unit cost 400
Mark up percentage 30%
Sales price 520
Interpretation
In computation of cost both fixed and variable expenses are considered. In present case
fixed cost and variable expenses are added and divided by the number of produced units. In this
way per unit cost is computed (Haynes, 2015. Margin percentage is added to the per unit cost in
order to calculate sales price of the product which is 520 for Radisson.
C.
Investment appraisal method measure strength and risk associated with various capital
projects and determine the best project among all. It enable Radisson Plc and other companies to
assess attractiveness of various projects and thereby chose the most appropriate ones.
Payback period: It is a measure of time period that will be taken by the project to receive
back their original outlay, called payback period (Investment appraisal techniques, 2016).
Shorter duration to recoup the initial investment seems good and more attractive as compare to
the project indicating longer payback period.
Year
Project
A Cumulative cash flows
Project
B Cumulative cash flows
0 -200000 -200000 -200000 -200000
1 35000 (-200000+35000)= -165000 32000
(-200000+32000) = -
168000
2 43000
(-165000+ 43000) = -
122000 46000
(-168000+46000) = -
122000
3 52000 (-122000+5200) = -70000 58000 (-122000+58000) = -64000