Week 7/8: Investment and Expansion

This week's big news is expansion onto a new production support line.
If you look at the first 6 weeks you might ask, "Why the hell would you expand? You're 64 million in the red!" Well, beyond my start-up costs, as of the end of week 6 I was up a net of 13M and many of my fixed assets were sitting idle far too much. Even after my expansion into another production support line, I still have a production up-time of only around 20%.
My expansion cost me about $10M in fixed investments while I pushed another $30M into inputs. I continue to face supply challenges with just a handful of inputs that keep my production lines held-up but my efficiency is improving just a little bit with every passing day. I have about $36M of sales goods awaiting purchase with another $12M of goods in active production. If I cashed out entirely today, I could nearly break-even on my total investment. But that's not the point of an investment, is it?

Week	Inflow	Outflow	Actual Net	Expected Net
0	0	-77,836,602	-77,836,602	-77,836,602
1	29,389,995	-21,983,814	7,406,180	8,000,000
2	24,600,000	-39,243,550	-14,643,550	10,000,000
3	33,129,974	-5,490,829	27,639,145	45,000,000
4	0	-1,499,400	-1,499,400	15,000,000
5	0	0	0	15,000,000
6	12,800,000	-16,000,000	-3,200,000	15,000,000
7	22,047,585	-50,448,311	-28,400,726	5,000,000
8	44,800,000	-28,133,226	16,666,774	5,000,000
9	45,000,000	-30,000,000	XXX	15,000,000
10	45,000,000	-30,000,000	XXX	15,000,000
TOTAL	166,767,553	-242,563,622	-75,796,069	XXX

My net cash flow over these two weeks is negative yet again. I had to liquidate some mineral assets that I've been holding onto for cases such as this; however, as week 8 clearly shows, I significantly improved my production capabilities. This extra capital allowed me to expand and purchase some missing inputs.
Included in the week 7 costs is my first inter-corporation trade, of rather significant savings for me. Cutting out transaction and broker fees, I saved nearly $400,000 in taxes alone while agreeing to pay my corp-mate a price that would likely have taken a number of days, if not a week or more, on the market to fulfill. This time savings is largely the reason why I'm sitting on a large stockpile of receivables and have had good production up-time. He seems to have a pretty strong supply-chain for some goods that I've had trouble supplying in a timely manner so I think this will improve my time-to-market considerably.