Finance Policy Recommendation and Pro Forma Budget: Boeing
Henry Aguirre, Patrick Buckley, Sheri White-Manning, Ted Ortiz, and Becky Wilson
FIN 571
June 5, 2013
Dr. Tom NeSmith
Boeing Working Capital Policy Analysis
Boeing is an aerospace cooperation that has been around since 1916. William E. Boeing, and a former U.S. Navy officer named Conrad Westervelt discovered the cooperation. They started out with a two seated single-engine seaplane called B&W. About a year later, the company was known as the Boeing Airplane Company. During the 1920 through the 1930s, the company sold several types of planes and their patrol bombers to the United States military. Around 1928 Boeing Airplane & Transport Corporation was
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From this statement we can conclude that the increase in current assets appears to be from a continued influx of cash and marketable securities. The same report also states that Boeing, “added $114 billion in new orders, expanding our record company backlog to more than $390 billion – nearly five times current annual revenues” (Boeing, 2012). From this statement we can assume that the large backlog of orders could be the culprit for the continued low working capital turnover rate.
To determine the working capital strategy Boeing, Co. should shift to, it is important to determine which strategy they have been using for the last five years. The decrease from 28.55% to 6.63% in five years seems to resemble an aggressive approach. To know for sure lets determine the amount of financial leverage the firm is using. This can be done using financial leverage ratios. According to Emery, Finnerty, and Stowe, the most commonly used ratios are the debt ratio, debt/equity ratio, and the equity multiplier (2007, p. 64). The debt ratio is simply: TOTAL DEBT/TOTAL ASSETS = DEBT RATIO PERCENTAGE. These ratios are different representations of the same information, and if anyone of them is known the other two can be determined
The Boeing Corporation is the world’s leading aerospace company and is the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners as well as military aircrafts. Boeing has teams that manufacture missiles, satellites, defense systems, and communication systems. NASA turns to Boeing when they need something and Boeing operates the International Space Station. Boeing has a broad range of capabilities and skills, which is probably the reason they are the world’s leading aerospace company. With the Boeing headquarters in Chicago, more than 170,000 people in 70 different countries find themselves employed with the corporation and
First of which, is the current ratio. It has been rapidly declining since 2000. To me this indicates that there is a liquidity issue. Each year their trade debt increase exceeds the increase of net income for the company. As a result, the working capital has taken a nosedive from $58,650 in 2002 to only $5,466 in 2003.
1.) In early 2003, Boeing announced plans to design and sell an airliner named the 7E7. Boeing aimed for the 7E7 to be more fuel efficient, carry between 200 and 250 passengers, able to accomplish both domestic and international flights, as well as be 10% cheaper to operate than Airbus’s A330-200 aircraft. All of these attributes were attractive to Boeing but would come at significant costs. To accomplish these attributes, Boeing proposed to construct the aircraft
In 1916, the Boeing Company (Boeing), was founded in Seattle Washington. Boeing is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers in producing military and commercial aircraft carriers. Throughout Boeing’s history, the company has developed several strategic alliances with various aerospace companies. Further, the company has merged and acquired numerous international aerospace firms such as McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell International, Jappesen Aerospace, Hughes Space and Communications, and North American Aviation (Boeing, 2014). Boeing is currently conducting business operations in approximately seventy (70) countries and approximately 200,000 employees. Further, there are approximately 25,000 suppliers within the company’s supply chain. In addition, the company has a very intricate value chain as seen in Table 1 below.
Airbus is a consortium of European aircraft manufacturers formed in 1970; Boeing Company was founded in 1916 as the world's largest private commercial aircraft manufacturer in the USA; and finally McDonnell Douglas, considered the third major manufacturer, began operations since 1920 working essentially for the US government, manufacturing
THE BOEING COMPANY: STRATEGIC AUDIT I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance Boeing performance has been outstanding for the past few years. Their Return on investment rose from three percent to 6 percent from 1998 to 1999, but it did drop to five percent in 2000. In 1996 Airbus claimed 42% of the market share, while Boeing had 64%. Boeing is looking at falling below the 50% mark. Boeing's profits have been doing quite well. They have risen drastically in the past few years, which can be seen in the profitability ratios. Boeing is doing fine when it comes to profitability, even though they have dropped slightly since 1999.
The working capital also has a direct relationship with the company’s current assets and current liabilities. The working capital should be positive in order to be considered good. To determine the working capital the current liabilities are subtracted from the current assets. As in the current ratio example the same pattern will show in the working capital. It will decline from 2010 to 2011 and then will become negative in 2012. This pattern shows a decline in Tesla Motors ability to use current resources to repay its debts.
As the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security system, Boeing puts a lot of efforts and innovations in its products and services. These include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.
2.1 Boeing Aircraft Corporation, with a heritage of aircraft design, manufacture and assembly, dates back to July 1916 (Boeing, 2004). Recent aircraft including 737, 747, 767, and 777 are all designed,
The Boeing Company was formed in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. The following year they had a twenty eight person payroll which included pilots, carpenters, boat builders and seamstresses. The lowest wage was fourteen cents an hour, while the company's top pilots made two to three hundred dollars a month. When the company was short on money, William Boeing used his own financial resources to guarantee a loan to cover all wages, which was a total of about seven hundred a week. ("Boeing History," n.d)
Boeing Company has been and is still at the forefront of the aviation industry. The late 1990s were a time of trial and transition where the company encountered and overcame a number of
The Boeing Corporation is one of the largest manufacturers in the world. Rivaled only by European giant Airbus in the aerospace industry, Boeing is a leader in research, design and manufacture of commercial jet airliners, for commercial, industrial and military customers. Despite enjoying immense success in its market and dominating an industry that solely recognizes engineering excellence, it is crucial for Boeing to ensure continued growth through consistent strategy formulation and execution to avoid falling behind in market share to close and coming rivals.
Boeing was the sales leader of the airframe industry, as well as one of America’s leading exporters. It had built more commercial airplanes than any other company in the world. Sales in 1981 were $9.2 billion; of the total, $5.1 billion were ascribed to the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, the firm’s aircraft manufacturing division. Other divisions produced missiles, rockets, helicopters, space equipment, computers and electronics. History The Boeing Company was founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing, the son of a wealthy timber man who had studied engineering at Yale. In its earliest days, the company built military aircraft for use in World War I. It began to prosper in the 1920s and 1930s, when the civil aviation market expanded, primarily because of the demand for mail carrying. At about that time, William Boeing issued a challenge
The Boeing Company designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. It operates in five segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Military Aircraft, Network & Space Systems, Global Services & Support, and Boeing Capital. The Commercial Airplanes segment develops, produces, and markets commercial jet aircraft for various passenger and cargo requirements; and provides related support services to the commercial airline industry. This segment also offers aviation services support, aircraft modifications, spare parts, training, maintenance documents, and technical advice to commercial and government customers. The Boeing Military Aircraft segment researches, develops, produces, and modifies manned and unmanned military aircraft, and weapons systems for global strike, vertical lift, and autonomous systems, as well as mobility, surveillance, and engagement. The Network & Space Systems segment researches, develops, produces, and modifies strategic defense and intelligence systems, satellite systems, and space exploration products.
After sucessfully selling military aircrafts adapted for troop transportation in the 1950’s and introducing commercial aircrafts model 707, 727 followed by 737, Boeing has since then become a leading producer of military & commercial aircraft.