Cash Cycle and Cash Turnovers

Cash Cycle refers to the amount of time which elapses from the point whenever the firms create a cash outlay to purchase raw materials to the point while cash is collected from the sale of finished goods produced by those raw materials.

Cash turnover on another hand refers to the frequency of a firm's cash cycle throughout a year.

Example

XYZ Ltd. currently purchases all its raw materials at credit and sells its merchandise at credit.  The credit terms extended to the firm currently needs payment throughout thirty days of a purchase whilst the firm currently needs its customers to pay throughout sixty days of a sale.  Conversely, the firm on average takes of 35 days to pay its accounts payable and the average collection period is of 70 days.  On average, of 85 days elapse among the point a raw material is purchased and the point the ended goods are sold.

Required

Find out the cash conversion cycle and the cash turnover.

Solution

The following chart can assist further understand the problem:

The cash conversion cycle is provided in the following formula as:

Cash conversion = Inventory conversion + Receivable collection - Payable deferral

          Cycle                    period                           period                           period

For our example:

Cash conversion cycle  =        85 + 70 - 35 = 120 days

Cash turnover      =        360 / Cash conversion cycle

                            =        360/120

                            =        3 times

Note that cash also conversion cycle can be specified by the following formulae as:

Cash conversion cycle  = 360 [(inventory/cost of sales) + (receivable / sales) - ((payable + accruals)/cash operating expenses)]