Enough funds here to continue......26 Oct 2015 13:13
Riddler and his likes are focusing too much on one thing, and that is receivables collection period, whilst completely ignoring the fact that the ACE does its business with the construction industry where receivable collection periods are normally very high.
Look at Taylor Wimpy and Barratts, no one is paying their suppliers within 60 days. ACE management has explained the reason for this increase (which makes perfect sense to me) that they are now doing more business with the larger construction firms and lesser with the retail customers, due to recent Chinese market conditions.
The receivables are being collected, after a longer period of time though, but the key question here is is this stopping the Company from its normal operations or making payments to its creditors? Answer is NO. ACE can easily pay its creditors through available cash.