Interpretation of financial statements Flashcards
We concluded last lecture that valuation is all about forecasting future returns, we have 2 accounting rates of return which are?
ROCE
RNOA
Do firms create value more from operating or fianancing activities?
Operating activities except for a few expections
1) Fricitions in capital market allow firms to make money from fiancing activities
2) Firms that operate in the financial sector ( e.g. banks a lot of operating activities is to do with fiancing things.)
What are the formulas for RNOAt and ROCEt( means how well company is generating profit from capital ( so high means good for shareholders) ?
So t-1 is the beginning of the period or the end of last period.
What is a problem of just looking at these two Ratios?
1) Ratios may hide underlying trends.
2) Ratios are less relevant if looked at in isolation. ( need to have a benchmark e..g industry or previous years)
3) We have implicitly made the assumption that financial leverage doesn’t affect value.
So what do we use to make ratios more meaning?
Advanced/ DuPont analysis, is a useful technique used to decompose the different drivers of return on capital employed. ( ROCE)
So what is another way to write RNOA
PM X AT
if there is no _b balance then it means that its a t balance.
Hence using the OI/NOA_b doesn’t allow us to decompose what causes RNOA and affects forecast.
What does RNOA mean?
What does profit margin tell you?
What does AT turn over tell you?
RNOA = measure of our return on operating assets.
PM = how many cents per dollar it generates per sale.
AT = measures the efficiency of a company’s assets in generating revenue or sales.
Does any effect on interest expenses get measured in profit margin?
No, originally if we borrowed money the interest expense will lower our profit margin, hence this fixes it, so profit margin will only change our operating activities.
How are we defining NOA and NFO? And then what is the fundamental balance sheet equation?
NOA = ( OA - OL) ( assumes OA> OL, if not then its either negative NOA or NOL)
NFO = ( FL - FA) ( same here)
NOA = NFO + CSE. ( this always holds)
What is advanced Dupont analysis of ROCE ( skipping all the algebra )?
ROCE = RNOA + FLEV*SPREAD
So we know that ROCE = ROCE = RNOA + FLEV*SPREAD which splits ROCE into the rate of return of operating activities and rate of return of non-operating activities what are the formulas for each component. What does FLEV mean for equity holders?
RNOA = OI/NOA_b
FLEV = NFO/CSE
SPREAD = RNOA - NFE/NFO_b
If a firm uses some debt, then this will increase return for equity holders, you want to take more leverage if RNOA > NFE/NFO_b
What does spread mean? RNOA - NFE/NFO_b
Basically tells us if you are generating return on assets to cover the interest you paying for borrowing, if you are the more you want to borrow as ROCE increases.
No we have to reformulate them.
What is a stock variable and what is a flow variable?
flow variable is measured over a period of time ( IS and CS)
stock variable is measured at a specific point in time.( balance sheet)
Now we are going to look at the stock and flow equation for equity? Now what is the clean surplus relation?
The clean surplus states that the difference between earnings and dividends equals the change in book value. Or the beginning book value of equity + CI for the period - dividends for the period show equal the the book value of equity at end of period.
CI from income statement is NI + OCI = CI
d = Net dividends ( so company pays dividends but they can also receive income ( e.g. share repurchases) but here is assuming the company paying dividends pay more than what company receives. BE CAREFUL WITH SIGNS
What is the aim of reformulating financial statements?
To create a distinction between operating and financing activities and focus on operating due to our assumption that firms do not revalue based on Fiancing activities.
There are 2 ways in which you can work out to do a reformulated balance sheet. What is the first way we will do it? ( hint its about splitting)
What are operating assets?
What are operating liabilities?
OA = Means used directly in operations. you do not receive or pay interest
OL = those expenses companies pay to support their operations. you DONT get a return of interest or you DONT pay interest.
We are going to do some classifications of the current and non current assets to test understanding of OA and OL.
1) Trade & other receivables
2) Inventories
3) Trade & other payables
4) Provisions ( a provision is an account that records a present liability of an entity. )
5) Current tax liabilities
6) Current tax assets
7) Cash & cash equivalents
8) Post employment benefit obligations ( Most post-employment plans consist of a deferred salary but also may include other benefits like healthcare )
9) Deferred tax assets
10) Assets of the disposal group & non current assets classified as held for sale
11) Liabilities of the disposal group classified as held for sale.
12) Goodwill, software & other intangible assets
13) Right of use of lease assets
14) Income tax receivable
15) Prepaid expenses
16) current portion of deferred taxes
17) Pension liabilities)
18) Any intangible asset
19) Remeasurement of defined benefit plans
20) Foreign currency translation adjustment
21) Non controlling interest
1) OA
2) OA
3) OL
4) OL
5) OL
6) OA
7) Can be a OA and FA ( must make an assumption or it may say in the question)
8) OL ( you not paying interest)
9) OA
10) OA
11) OL
12) OA
13) OA
14) OA
15) OA
16) OA
17) OL
18) OA
19) OA
20) OA
21) OL ( its not going to be CSE as its separate, so its either OL or OA and its more intuitive to think OL)
What is a financial asset?
What is a financial obligation/liability?
FA = a non-physical asset whose value is derived from a contractual claim.
FL/FO= A financial liability can be a contractual obligation, a payment involving an equity settlement, or a settlement of a derivative.
Classify these into FA or OA
1) Cash and deposits
2) Marketable securities
3) Current portion of bonds ( the amount of unpaid principal from long-term debt that has accrued in a company’s normal operating cycle)
4) Investment securities
5) Bonds
6) Long term borrowing
7) Lease obligations
8) Commercial paper
9) Other investments & other assets
10) Share acquisition rights
11) commitment and contingencies
12) Preferred stock (a different type of equity that represents ownership of a company and the right to claim income from the company’s operations)
1) Depends on specification of question but FA.
2) FA
3) FL
4) FA
5) FL
6) FL
7) FL
8) FO
9) FA
10) FL
11) FO
12) FO
So we can find CSE by doing NOA - NFO or we can literally identify CSE by identifying CSE values.
What are these?
Also Treasury shares
Capital surplus
ALL CSE except Preffered stock
What does accure mean, what does accure interest mean?
Acculumate over time, so interest will accumulate over time.
What are all of these?
OL