Financial Accounting Flashcards
What are the five things we look for in Financial Ratio analysis?
- Liquidity
- Asset Management
- Leverage or long term financial stability/ Capital Structure
- Profitability
- Market Performance/ Stock Market Ratios
What is liquidity analysis?
Assessing solvency. How fast you can recover your cash.
What are the 2 liquidity ratios?
1) Current Ratio 2) Quick Asset Ratio
What is Asset Management analysis?
Assessing efficiency. How efficiently are you utilising your assets?
What are the 3 Asset Management ratios used?
1) Total Asset Turnover 2) Inventory Turnover (+ Age of Inventory 3) Accounts Receivable Turnover
What is Leverage / Capital Structure analysis?
Assessing long term financial stability. How they manage their debt. Can you exist the next 5 years in how you’re managing debt?
What are 3 the leverage/ capital structure ratios?
1) Debt to Assets
2) Debt to Equity
3) Time interest earned (or interest cover)
What is Profitability Analysis?
Assessing Return - how profitable the business operation has been
What are the 4 Profitability ratios?
1) Profit margin 2) Return on assets 3) Return on equity 4) Return on capital employed
What is Market Performance/ Stock Market Ratios?
This reflects market valuations & performance. How the market is pricing the company for its earnings and tangible assets, dividend payouts, and wealth generated for the shareholders
What are the 7 ratios for market performance?
1) Net tangible assets per share
2) Net Assets per share
3) Dividend per shares
4) Earnings per share (EPS)
5) Dividend yield
6) Dividend Cover
7) Price Earnings Ratio (PER)
Current ratio formula
Total Current Assets / Total Current Liabilities
Non percentage
Current ratio meaning
Also known as working capital ratio. Ability to meet its short term debts. A current ratio of 1 or > means the company is well positioned that its assets can meet its debt.
Quick Asset Ratio (Acid Test) Formula
(Current Assets - Inventory - Prepayment) /
Current Liabilities - Overdraft
What does quick asset ratio mean?
Ability to meet its short term obligations with its most liquid assets.
A company with a high/ increasing quick ratio is likely to experience revenue growth, collecting its accounts receivable and turning them into cash quickly.
Profit Margin formula
(%)
Profit before Interest & Tax / Sales
Gross Profit Margin Formula
Gross Profit / Revenue
Operating Profit Margin Formula
Operating Profit / Revenue
Pre-tax Profit Margin Formula
Pretax profit / Revenue
Net Profit Margin Formula
Net Income/ Revenue
Book value
Net book value, written down value, unexpired cost
Asset - accumulated depreciation
Straight line depreciation
Depreciation per year = (Cost- Estimated residual value) / Estimate useful life
Reducing balance depreciation formula
Depreciation rate = (1- ^n square root (residual value/ cost))
Total Asset Turnover
Sales / Total Assets
Non Current Asset Turnover
Sale or Revenue/ Total Non Current Assets
Inventory Turnover
COGS /
Inventories
Days in Inventory
Inventories/ COGS *365
Accounts Receivable Turnover
Credit Sales (or Revenue)/ Accounts Receivable (or Trade Debtors)