Annual Report
Annual Report
Annual Report
Report issued annually by the corporation to its stockholders. It contains basic nancial statements as
well as the management’s analysis of the rm”s past operations and future prospects
Contains
• Balance sheet
• Income statement
• Statement of retained earnings
• Statement of cash ows
1.Balance sheet
Assets= Liabilities + Equity
• Book values
◦Historical costs (costs in which the asset is acquired by the company) —accumulated
depreciation
• Market values
◦Determined by current trading values in the market
◦Market value of shareholder’s equity
= Markey capitalisation
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3.Cash Flows
Cash ow:
• Add depreciation as depreciation is considered a non cash expense
• Add cash expenditure on new xed assets
• Record income and expense at the time of sales
• Considers changes in working capital
Statement of cash ow
3 categories:
• Operating activities : changes in net income and changes in most current accounts
• Investment activities: changes in xed assets
• Financing activities: changes in nots payable , long-term debt and equity accounts as well as
dividends
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• Net working capital = Current assets - current liabilities
• Net working capital + net xed assets = long term debt + common stock + retained earnings
• Current liabilities = non-interest bearing CL ( A result of operating activities, aka A/P ) + interest
bearing CL ( From nancing activities, aka short term loans [ <1 year maturity ], Notes payable)
• While accounting gures are pale re ections of the economic reality, they are often the best
available. Hence, we have to rely on these gures as a starting point to strict information we need
• Cash is one of the most impt pieces of info we can derive from nancial statements
◦how cash is generated fro assets and paid to nance the assets
◦Only cash generated from operations over the life of an asset or investment is of concern in
Finance.
◦Operating working capital
‣ Stemming fro operating policies
• A/R
• Inventory
• A/P etc
• Cash Flows:
◦Cash Flow from Assets (CFFA)/ Free cash ows : All cash ows related to assets of a business.
‣ CFFA= Operating Cash Flow — Net capital spending — Changes in Net Operating Working
Capital amountofcashgeneratedfromRevenue
• OCF : Ebit * ( 1- tax rate ) + Depreciation
• NCS : Ending net xed asset - Beg net xed asset + Depreciation
• Changes in NOWC : Ending NOWC — Beg NOWC ( Current assets - A/P )
◦CFFA+ Interest tax shield = Cash ow to creditors + cash ow to stockholders
‣ interest tax shield: Interest* Tax rate
‣ Cash ow to creditors : interest paid - net new borrowing ( LT debt and notes payable)
‣ Cash ow to stockholders: Dividends paid - net new equity raised
• Enterprise Value
◦Assess the underlying business asset value while excluding the value of any non- operating
assets
◦EV= Market value of equity + Debt - Excess cash (Amt of cash rm has and not needed for
operations)
• Stocks
◦issued stocks
‣ outstanding capital stocks
‣ Treasury stocks : Shares bought back and held by company
◦Unissued capital stocks
Ratio Analysis
5 categories of Ratios
1. Liquidity ratios ( short term solvency )
A. measure the rm’s ability to pay bills in the short run
2. Long term solvency ratio
A. how heavily the company is in debt
B. Mix of debt and equity
3. Asset management
A. how productively is company using assets
B. Right amount of assets for level of sales?
4. Pro tability ratio
A. Firm’s return on its investment
5. Market Value ratio
A. rm’s prospects and how market values the rm
Liquidity Ratio
• Liquidity is the ability to convert assets into cash quickly without signi cant losses in value
• Indicates rm’s ability to meet maturing short term obligations
• Current Ratio : Whether rm has enough resources to meet short term obligation
◦current assets/ current liabilities
• Quick ratio : Companies’ abilities to meet short term obligations with most liquid assets
◦(CA - Inventory) / CL
• Cash ratio
◦cash / CL
• NWC to total assets : short term liquidity
◦NWC/ TA
• interval measure ( How many days can the company operate with the funds on hand)
◦CA/ avg daily operating costs
Pro tability
Shows the combined e ect of liquidity, asset management and debts on the operating results
• Pro t margin: Net income/ sales
• BEP ( Basic earning power) = Ebit/ Total assets
◦removes the e ects of traces and nancial leverage
• Return on assets = Net income/ Total assets
• Return on equity = Net income/ Total common equity
◦does not consider risk
◦Does not consider amt of capital invested
◦Might encourage managers to make investment decisions that do not bene t shareholders
◦It only focuses on return.