Lecture 1 - Basic Financial Analysis
Lecture 1 - Basic Financial Analysis
Objective
Learn to use a firms financial statements to assess its historical performance and current financial standing.
Financial analysts rely on key financial ratios that summarize the firms financial strengths and weaknesses.
These ratios are no substitute for a crystal ball, but do help you to ask the right questions. These tools are useful for various analysts, including: managers worried about problems with their strategies lenders screening loan applications investors seeking to monitor the firms activities
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Setting
We want to assess the current financial standing of the Executive Paper Corporation. Largely a backward looking exercise, but suggestive of future events. Perhaps you are a financial analyst with the firm and are helping develop a 5-year financial plan.
Or perhaps you work for a rival firm that is contemplating a takeover bid.
Or perhaps you are a banker trying to decide whether to give a loan or not. From last years annual report (2012), we observe the firms income statement and balance sheet.
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65,000
90,000 85,000 240,000 200,000 60,000
71,125
95,000 95,000 261,125 250,475 66,000
6,125
5,000 10,000 21,125 50,475 6,000
140,000
380,000
184,475
445,600
44,475
65,600
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Retained earnings
Total shareholders' equity Total liabilities and equity
189,000
214,000 380,000
304,600
332,600 445,600
115,600
118,600 65,600
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EPC's Income Statement for 2012 Revenues Costs Depreciation EBIT Interest @ 10% Taxable income Tax @ 40% Net income Dividends (1/3 of NI) Addition to retained earnings 765,000 460,000 6,000 299,000 10,000 289,000 115,600 173,400 57,800 115,600
1.08 0.36
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Retention Ratio =
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Key questions:
what accounts for the ROE dynamics over time for the firm? time series dimension what accounts for the difference in ROE of firm A and B? cross sectional dimension
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Cash received
Time
Operating Cycle =
Cash Cycle =
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Cash
Marketable Securities Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Notes Payable Accrued Expenses
Inventories
Net PPE (NPPE)
Deriving Cash
Cash = LTD + S + RE + CL CA (excl. cash) NPPE RE = NI Dividends RE = NI Dividends + Depreciation Depreciation = OCF Dividends Depreciation (OCF = NI + Dep.)
Deriving Cash
Cash = LTD + S + CL CA (excl. cash) GPPE + OCF Dividends
For reporting purposes, firms present the information about the change in cash using the Statement of Cash Flows
Cash = CF from operating activities + CF from investing + CF from financing CF from operating activities =
CF from investing =
CF from financing =
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Pay dividends
Increase (decrease) accrued expenses Increase (decrease) taxes payable