The new owners of Indomie Foods Inc. have hired you to help them diagnose and cure problems that the company has had in maintaining adequate liquidity. As the first step, you perform a liquidity analysis. You then do an analysis of the company’s short-term activity ratios. Your calculations and appropriate industry norms are listed.

(a) What recommendations relative to the amount and the handling of inventory could you make to the new owners?

(b) What recommendations relative to the amount and the handling of accounts receivable could you make to the new owners?

(c) What recommendations relative to the amount and the handling of accounts payable could you make to the new owners?

(d) What results, overall, would you hope your recommendations would achieve? Why might your recommendations not be effective?

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Ratio Current ratio Indomie 4.5 Industry norm 4.0 Quick ratio 2.0 3.1 Inventory turnover 6.0 10.4 Average collection period 83 days 62 days Average payment period 30 days 45 days