Unit 5 Flashcards
A company can be considered as a ___________ of ________ and __________.
succession
investing and financing projects
The following steps describe how a company works from a financial point of view:
- To acquire the desired investments, the company will need an amount of money.
- __________________
- The company has to raise the needed money by issuing capital or liabilities (debt), thereby defining the
financial structure of the company. - The company commits itself to remunerate the fund providers in return.
- The firm uses the raised funds to acquire the different assets needed for the investment
project. - By doing its operations, the assets of the company will be consumed and, as a result, other assets of (expected) higher value will arise.
- Therefore, the operations of the company are expected to increase the value of the assets that belong to the company.
- As the company committed itself to remunerate the fund providers, it will use the operations
income to fulfill that commitment.
The financial structure of a company is defined by its _____________.
capital and liabilities
Liabilities are __________.
debts
The financial structure of a company is _______________.
the specific mixture of capital and liabilities a company uses to finance its operations.
An asset can be defined as ______________.
any resource with economic value which is expected to generate future cash-flows
If a company buys a good for 10 € and sells it for 12 €, the company will ___________ that good (that asset “disappears” or it is consumed) but, in exchange, ______________ (money or a credit).
lose
it receives a new asset whose value is higher
“Losing” a good means _______________.
that asset “disappears” or it is consumed
The operations of the company are expected to ___________ the value of the assets that belong to the company.
increase
The increasing in the value of the assets of a company in a given period of time is called ___________.
the Operating Income of that period
As the company committed itself to remunerate the fund providers, it will use the operations
income to fulfill that commitment. This remuneration is done in the following order:
- The company will pay to the debt holders.
2. The company pays the stockholders
Remuneration of debt holders is called ___________, and it is composed mainly of ____________.
the cost of debt
the interests of the loans and bonds
The remaining money after paying the debt holders (and the __________) is the ______, which
belongs to the stockholders of the company.
income tax
Net Income
____________ belongs to the stockholders of the company.
Net income
Net income can be used in two ways:
- It can be paid to the stockholders
2. The company can decide not to pay a dividend to the stockholders and to retain the net income
If net income is paid to stockholders, the company ____________ (generally, but not necessarily ________) to the stockholders. These payments are called ____________.
will give an amount of assets
money
dividends
Dividends are
an amount of assets, usually, but not always, money, paid to stockholders of a company.
net income paid to the stock holders
Net income is an amount of assets, usually, but not always, money, paid to stockholders of a company.
True
When a company decides not to pay a dividend to the stockholders, but to retain the net income instead, that net income _________, and it will be used by the company to ____________ (rather than to issue new capital). In this case, the stockholders will receive
___________, but the value of the stockholder’s equity (____________) will grow.
will become reserves
fund future investments
no assets
the value of the stockholder’s investment in the company
To pay dividends or to retain earnings are not necessarily exclusive options. The company can
decide ___________ and to _____________ or ___________ and ______________.
to pay a given proportion of earnings as dividends
retain the rest as reserves
not pay dividends
retain the entire income as reserves
Operating income is part of _______.
assets
It is possible that the interests to be paid to the debtholders are __________ than the operating income. In this case,____________ we
will get a negative net income, that is a _________. In a net loss, the value of the stockholders equity will _________.
higher
by subtracting the interests from the operating income
net loss
decrease
Net loss is when _________________.
the interests to be paid to the debtholders are higher than the operating income
It is also possible that, in the development of its operations, the company will ____________, but assets of lower value. In this case, the operations
will produce an ____________. In addition to that loss, the company will still have to ____________, so those interests must be ______________. Again, the value of the stockholders equity will decrease.
not receive assets of higher value
operating loss
pay the interests to the debtholders
added to the operating loss to produce an even larger net loss
An operating loss is when ____________.
Net loss is when _____________.
a company receives assets of lower value
a company receives assets of lower value, and in addition to that loss, the company still has to pay interest to the debtholders, which means the interests must be added to the operating loss to produce an even larger loss.
The financial position of the company must keep a ___________ between its____________ to guarantee the business continuity.
proper balance
assets and financial structure
The possible long-term balances of the financial position of a company are the following:
- Maximum stability (Assets = Shareholder’s Equity)
- Normal Situation (Assets = Stockholder’s equity + debt)
- Bankruptcy (Assets + Stockholder’s equity = Debt)
In maximum stability balance, _____________.
The company has no debt, so it cannot fail its commitments
In a normal long-term balance financial position, ___________.
The company has debt, but the value of the assets exceeds the value of the debt. Consequently,
the company will probably fulfill its debt commitments.
The greater the difference between assets and debt, the higher the financial stability of the company.
True
In a bankruptcy situation, _________________.
The assets of the company are not enough to payback the company’s debt. Consequently, all the assets are due to the debtholders and the value of the equity is negative.
The assets of a company are______________. That is to say: an asset is any economic resource controlled by the company, which is expected to produce cash inflows in the future.
the investments of that company
Assets are ____________.
any economic resource controlled by the company, which is expected to produce cash inflows in the future.
In the development of its operations, the assets of the company will ___________, and they will
be replaced by _____________. The
disappearance of an asset is called the _______________.
disappear
other assets that are expected to be of the same or higher value
consumption of that asset
The consumption of an asset is the _______.
disappearance of an asset
In terms of cash-flows, translate the following:
Buy raw materials -> Convert raw materials into finished products -> Sell finished products -> Collect the price
Money disappears and Raw materials appear -> Raw materials disappear and Finished products appear ->
Finished products disappear and Receivable (assets/ amount owed to company) appears -> Receivable disappears and Money appears
We can classify the assets into two groups depending on the time required to be consumed. However, to make this classification, we have to define first the
company’s life cycle.
True
A company’s life cycle is composed of the set of procedures that take place in the
company from __________.
the moment in which the company makes an investment in its operations, till the moment the invested money is returned
The life cycle of a commercial and an industrial companies would be the following:
Commercial:
Purchase goods -> Sell goods -> collect receivables -> Purchase goods
Industrial:
Acquire raw material -> Production -> Sell Finished goods -> Collect Receivables -> Acquire raw material
Current assets are those _______________. Therefore, they are expected to________.
which are expected to be fully consumed within the company’s life cycle
turn to cash in the short term
Current assets are typically the following:
- Cash and short-term financial investments
- Accounts receivable and other receivables
- Inventoried assets
Cash and short-term financial investments are ________.
these are the most liquid assets.
In cash and short-term financial investments, cash can be directly used as __________, while short-term financial investments can ______________.
a means of payment
be quickly converted into cash without value loss
In accounts receivable and other receivables, the receivables are ________________. Examples of accounts receivable and other receivables are:
the amounts of money the company has a right to collect in the future
goods and/or services that have not been paid for
other receivables can be tax refunds, cash advances, etc
In accounts receivable and other receivables, the receivables are ________________. Examples of accounts receivable and other receivables are:
the amounts of money the company has a right to collect in the future
goods and/or services that have not been paid for
other receivables can be tax refunds or cash advances
Inventoried assets are ____________. Examples of inventories are _______________.
goods and other real materials the company holds for their consumption in the business operations
raw materials, work in process, finished goods, manufacturing and packaging supplies, office
supplies, etc…