Ch4-6 Flashcards
Asset Usage Efficiency Lever
One of the three parts of the DuPont = S/TA.
Cash Budget
A forecasting tool typically used for the short term (a year or so)
DFN
Discretionary financing (or funds) needed. How much cash the firm needs in a pro forma statement.
Discretionary Accounts
Another name for non-spontaneous accounts.
Dividend Payout Ratio
Dividends/Net Income.
Dividend Policy
The amount of dividends management decides to pay out to shareholders.
EFN
External financing (or funds) needed. Another name for DFN.
Excess Capacity
When fixed assets do not need to increase as sales increase.
Full Capacity
When fixed assets have to increase if the firm wants to increase sales.
Leverage Lever
DuPont = TA/TE, also known as the equity multiplier.
Non-Spontaneous Accounts
Financial accounts that do not vary directly with sales.
Percent of Sales Forecast
A way to make pro forma financial statements based on a sales prediction and how accounts vary with sales.
Plowback Ratio
Another name for the retention ratio.
Pro Forma Statements
Future or forecasted financial statements.
Profitability Lever
DuPont = NI/S.
Retention Ratio
1 - dividend payout ratio.
SGR
ROE * (1-Div/NI).
Spontaneous Accounts
vary directly with sales.
Annuity
A series of payments or receipts.
Annuity Due
pays at the beginning of each period.
Compounding
Future value of present money
Compounding Problem
When the periods, payments, and interest must be adjusted for non-annual time value of money problems.
Deferred Annuity
An annuity that starts sometime in the future.
Discount Rate
The rate at which money is discounted or compounded.
Discounting
Present value of future money.
Effective Yield
(1+stated rate/m)^m -1.
Future Value
Future spending power of money
FV
Future Value, a lump sum.
FVIF
Future value investment factor = PV * (1+r)^n.
FVIFA
Future value investment factor of an annuity.
I/Yr
Interest rate per period.
Lump Sum
A single amount of money.