Ann: Trading Halt, page-116

First 116 Last

Share
Profile

Follow
Warnie

17,233 Posts.

954

19/02/18

13:44

Post #: 31158529
Share

Originally posted by bensh10 ↑

As a sidenote, I ran some calculations on the claims in the last paragraph regarding bank balance and interest:

"The firm reported $22.6 million of cash receipts in the last three months of the year, a 460 per cent increase on the previous quarter. The impressive sales have boosted its cash balance from $2.6 million at 31 December 2016 to over $31.4 million a year later. However Big's filings show it has only collected $10,500 of interest income over that period, with most of that income earned in the quarters preceding full and half year results. By comparison, a bank account with a balance of $10 million that is earning the Reserve Bank overnight cash rate of 1.5 per cent will receive $10,500 of interest in less than four weeks."

I linearly interpolated the bank balance of BIG to obtain an estimate of balance at the end of each month.
I also had a look at interest rate for say Commonwealth business accounts. The rate was in fact as low as 0.15 p.a%.

At that rate, my calculations suggest BIG should have earned about $15,000 interest over the entire year, which is pretty close to the reported $10,500.

In my view, the last paragraph is clearly another example of Shapy throwing some mud, without actually crunching the numbers. I don't trust this guy. First the 2013 report, and then clearly misleading information on interest to cast doubt over the bank balance.

PS. I don't own a business, so an input on the interest rate from those who actually run a business would be great.

Expand

With over $2m in a business cash management account, you should be getting roughly 1.6 -1.8%p.a (well if you shop around that is).

Here is one example with $10m in the account:
Shows you monty interest earnt

https://www.canstar.com.au/details/...=WBCB&profile=Cash management&amount=10000000

BIG Price at posting: $2.22 Sentiment: None Disclosure: Not Held
1 Upvote

0 Great analysis

Reply

Top Stories

The Rising Tide: How institutional adoption is shaping the future of crypto

SER

How flooding did Strategic Energy Resources a favour: Four holes down in 'redesigned' gold & copper campaign

CC9

Chariot locks in high-potential drill target at Black Mountain, one of the USA's largest lithium landholdings

Week 34 Wrap: HotCopper's top watched; Oz banks cut saver interest; Kamala’s 28% corporate tax; AI’s back

Why are so many ASX explorers setting up shop in Saudi Arabia? + 8 stocks to watch

There are more pages in this discussion • 589 more messages in this thread...

First 116 Last

Add BIG (ASX) to my watchlist

Ann: Trading Halt, page-116

Top Stories

The Rising Tide: How institutional adoption is shaping the future of crypto

How flooding did Strategic Energy Resources a favour: Four holes down in 'redesigned' gold & copper campaign

Chariot locks in high-potential drill target at Black Mountain, one of the USA's largest lithium landholdings

Week 34 Wrap: HotCopper's top watched; Oz banks cut saver interest; Kamala’s 28% corporate tax; AI’s back

Why are so many ASX explorers setting up shop in Saudi Arabia? + 8 stocks to watch

Featured News