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Financial Statement Analysis Flashcards

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Define financial statements

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Firm-issued accounting reports with past performance information.

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Explain what a 10-Q and a 10-K?

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Form 10-Q is a quarterly report for finances and 10-K is an annual report

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What firms have to release their financial statements and to who?

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Public firms must file their financial statements with the relevant regulatory body, public firms don’t. Annual reports must be sent to shareholders too

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Why does a firm hire an auditor

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To ensure the accuracy of their financial statements

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What statements does an annual report consist of?

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Statement of financial position
Income statement
Statement of cashflow

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Define a statement of financial position

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Balance sheet - shows firms accounting value on a particular date - snapshot

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Balance sheet equation

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Assets= Liabilities + Shareholders Equity

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What does residual claim mean

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Shareholders get any value thats left of assets after creditors and liabilities have been paid. Last claim.

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Define a current asset

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Cash or things owned expected to be turned into cash in next year ex: marketable securities, accounts/trade receivables (debtors), inventory or pre paid expenses

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Define a non current asset and describe the types

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Have a longer life of over 1 year - can be tangible or intangible. can also have financial assets too

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Define a current liability

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Current liabilities are things company owes to be paid within a year ex: accounts/trades payables, short-term debt, maturities, accrual items

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Define a non current liabilities

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Things a company owes long term ex: capital leases, deffered taxes, long-term debt

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Define market value

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Value based on prices or market variations. Financial managers care about this value

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Define book value

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In accounts this value is used, It can be defined using the historical cost model or revaluation model. Historical - being based on price originally paid for the business. Revaluation is the fair value amount, what it would cost today

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Define IAS

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International Accounting Standards are set of standards and procedures by which audited financial statements are prepared in Europe and other countries

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What is the formula for net income

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Revenues - Expenses = Income

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What does IAS say about revenues and expenses on the income statement

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Recognition or realisation principle for revenues - they are recognised at the time of sale
Expenses are done on the matching principle - corresponding expenses to incomes recorded are shown

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What are non cash items

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Expenses charged against revenue not directly affecting cash flow. Income differs from cashflow and we see that here ex: Depreciation

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What is the cashflow statement formula

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Cash flow from assets = cash flow to creditors and equity investors

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What are the two methods of doing a cash flow statement and explain them

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Direct method - actual cash outflows and inflows are presented
Indirect method - Company profit or loss and extracting non-cash items which incurred . Both arrive at the same operating cashflow

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What is total cash flow made up of

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Operating activities, investing activites, financing activities

22
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What is one of the largest cash outflows

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corporate taxes

23
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What is average tax rate

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% of income that pays taxes

tax bill/taxable income

24
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What is marginal tax rate

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Tax you would pay if you earned one more unit of currency

25
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What do liquidity ratios assess?

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Short term solvency - ability to pay bills

26
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What do financial leverage ratios assess?

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Long term solvency

27
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What do market value ratios assess?

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Comparing book value to market value

28
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What do turnover ratios assess?

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Efficiency of asset use to generate sales

29
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Define an aspirant group

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Group of top firms in an industry

30
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Whats significant about the market and book value of current assets/liabilities

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The market and book value stay very similar however their value does change rapidly because they are current

31
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What does an increasing current ratio mean?

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More liquidity meaning firm will have ability to make payments too much liquidity is not always a good thing. If firms current ratio is much higher than competitor it indicates management is too conservative

32
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What does EBIT stand for

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Earnings before interest and tax

33
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Why is cash coverage ratio better than times interest earned ratio

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Superior because you need cash to pay interest

34
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Explain what leverage ratios measure

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Extent to which firm uses debt rather than equity finance indicates ability to meet it’s long term obligations ex: interest payments

35
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Explain what financial leverage ratios measure

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Use of debt in capital structure. more debt means higher gearing and risk. Too little is too conservative

36
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What effect does debt have on shareholders

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Debt increases return to shareholders in good times, debt decreases return in bad times

37
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What does inventory turnover measure?

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how fast firm sells goods

38
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What does receivables turnover measure?

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how fast firms collect from their sales

39
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What does payables turnover measure?

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How long does it take firm to pay suppliers

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What does total asset turnover measure?

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how efficiently firm is using assets to support sales

41
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What does NWC turnover measure?

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How efficiently firm uses NWC to support sales

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What does PPE turnover measure?

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How efficiently fixed assets are used to support sales

43
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What does the profit margin ratio measure?

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% of sales that is left after all expenses are paid by the business

44
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What does the return on assets ratio measure?

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Efficient management is at using its assets to generate earnings. Higher = better as earning more with less investment. Measures profit per unit cash of assets

45
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What does the return on equity ratio measure?

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Shows how much profit firm generates with money shareholders invested. Useful for comparisons with competition. It measures performance

46
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Why is Price sales ratio good in place of P/E ratio in certain circumstances

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If EPS is negative then P/E ratio will not work

47
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Whats a value firm and whats a growth firm

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Value firm - low M to B ratio

Growth firm - High M to B ratio

48
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Whats the difference between the M to B ratio and Tobins Q?

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Tobins Q focuses on what the firm is worth today not what is was worth historically

49
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What is the ROE affected by?

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Operating efficiency
asset use efficency
Financial leverage

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