Background and Justifications
• Petchaburi S.Charoen is lube Thailand distributor who solid BP - Castrol lubricant at Petchaburi and Prachubkirikhan province since Y2001. They established in May 22nd, 2001 with registered capital of USD 30.3k.
• They have started contract with BP - Castrol since Jun 29th, 2001, with current credit limit of USD 1.06M, secured by Kbank guarantee of USD 849 k. (80% of their credit line)
• The reason for temporary increasing their credit limit to USD 1.3m is support the sale target plan for the 6 next months that will be cover the short fall of sale volume from 6 months ago.
The projected sales during this period at $ 533k per month on average which we need 2.5 times for credit limit (533*2.5 = 1,33k).
And Kbank already adjusted their credit line since Jun 8th, 2015 to USD 1.31m with 84% guarantee of this credit line, no additional guarantee from BP.
• Their conduct of credit management is quite unsatisfactory however their payment performance are on time by pay via K-Bank system.
Average last 6 months debtor day was 47 days versus average 45 days credit terms. (caused from product mix)
• Total YTD sales was USD 4.9 m and total YTD payment was USD 4.8 m.
• The liquidity position of the subject company for 3 years ago is :-
1. Liquidity Ratio – the Current and Quick ratio indicated a negative trend that measure of the firm had insufficient quick asset to be converted to cash in a period .
2. Efficiency Ratio – the all ratio indicated the deterioration in control of receivables over extension and collection problem.
Business volume was decreased but Days’ Sales in inventory indicates increased and Inventory Turnover decreased that presents the deterioration of the inventory control.
3. Debt Ratio – the customer can be considered fairly high in leverage from their capital structure comprises of 79% from debt.
4. Growth Ratio – As a result of decreasing in Revenue but increase of net profit that indicated the improvement of their sale performance.
• The ACDD position of the subject company is :-
- ACDD net risk rating is Medium (caused from the customer who operating from a country having CPI score < 5?)
- No blacklisted and red flags from CDD team.
- All their sales are sold in Thailand.
• The view of credit opinion :- This is an official distributor who has grown throughout the past 10 years and have an opportunity to growth the market in the future.
And we also need the sale volume for short fall the Y2015 target with high as 45%-50% current margin that we do not increase our guarantee to Kbank.
However, effective management of their receivables decrease in 2013, we have not decided to adjust the limit by permanently.
• Sale team and credit control team have a plan for supporting, closely monitor and review their debtor performance on the monthly basis in term of risk mitigation.
Best Regard,