Financial Management

Question

Pranav is engaged in ‘Transport-Business’. Identify the working capital requirements of Pranav stating the reason in support of your answer. Pranav also wants to expand and diversify his Transport-Business. Explain any two factors that will affect his fixed capital requirements.

Answer

(a) As it is a service industry, the working capital requirement would be less. Working capital requirement would be for the payment of salary, fuel charges, maintenance of vehicles, etc.
(b) Factors affecting the Fixed Capital Requirement:

(i) Scale of Operations: Larger the spread of business activities, greater is the need for fixed capital.

(ii) Diversification: Diversification means running business in more products than merely in one product. Those organisations which wish to adopt diversification certainly need more fixed capital.

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