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Country Pizza: Bringing In the Dough

Julie Gosse, Katelyn Helka

Product #:W44011
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:Accounting, Finance
Setting:Canada, 2023
Details:Case (PDF) • 8 pages • 2025-04-09

Subjects:

Finance and investingAccounting

Industries:

Food and beverage sector

Geography:

CanadaNorth America
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A son asked his mother for a $75,000 loan, split into a personal loan to buy Country Pizza, and a professional loan to upgrade appliances, storage cabinets, and lighting fixtures. His mother had to decide if her son was capable of running a business, as he had no past business experience besides managing Country Pizza for the past three years.

Students will take on the role of the mother and decide how to navigate granting or not granting a loan to a family member while analyzing past statements, creating and analyzing projected statements, and completing a risk profile on Country Pizza and the son.

Learning Objectives

This case can be used in introductory business courses at the undergraduate level for the finance and accounting modules. The case can also be used as an exam or testing point in these modules.

This case gives students the opportunity to do the following:
  • Interpret and analyze a statement of cash flows.
  • Use ratios to determine a company’s ability to pay off future debt.
  • Project future financial statements in low and high scenarios.
  • Determine the working capital requirements of a business.
  • Consider how sensitivity can impact a business’s working capital requirements.
  • Analyze a company’s capacity to repay, and determine credit risk based on the external conditions of the business and its internal character.
  • Compile support for the decision of whether or not to approve the loan.
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