I. Concept Notes Five Contents of Financial Statements
I. Concept Notes Five Contents of Financial Statements
LEARNING PACKET
FINMAN2 –FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Session 1, First Semester, SY 2020-21
I. CONCEPT NOTES
Five Contents of Financial Statements
1. Income Statement
Provides the firm’s operating results during a particular period
Components usually include:
o Revenues-amount collected or collectible during the period for the
goods/services provided
o Cost of Goods Sold- total costs of the goods/services given/provided to customers
o Gross profit- profit from production itself and excess from revenues used to pay
other operating expenses
o Operating expenses-costs not related to manufacturing but are incurred by the
firm during its operations
o Operating Income-profit after the operating expenses but before other incomes
and expenses
o Earnings before Interest and Taxes (EBIT)-earnings after the other sources of
income and expenses, but before the financial charges (interest) and taxes
o Interest Expenses- finance cost from borrowing funds
o Taxes- contributions to the government
o Net Profit/Income – the earnings after all expenses are considered
Other points to consider:
o Earnings per Share (EPS) – net income generated for each ordinary share, may be
basic or diluted EPS depending on existence of options and convertible
instruments
o Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) – cash
earnings by the company from their operations
2. Balance Sheet
Provides for the financial position in a given period
Assets are everything that is owned by the company, components include ( in order of
liquidity):
o Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents (including marketable securities)
Receivables
Inventory
o Noncurrent Assets
Fixed Assets
Noncurrent financial assets
Intangibles
Liabilities are obligations from other parties in acquiring these assets, and include:
o Current Liabilities
Accounts payable
Accruals
o Noncurrent Liabilities
Notes and Bonds Payable
Finance Leases
Other Long-term debt
Equity are the owners’ or shareholders’ claims over the assets, and include:
o Paid-in-capital
o Additional paid in capital
o Retained Earnings
o OCI items
Other points to consider:
o Book Value – value of the equity based on the books of the company, may be
inaccurate
o Market Value – value of the equity based on the market (stock price)
Ratio Analysis
methods of calculating and interpreting financial ratios to analyze and monitor firm’s
performance. Context is that, using balances in the financial statements and derive ratios
from them generates meaningful information about the firm that is not provide by the
face of the financial statements
Uses:
1. Performance evaluation
2. Comparison and benchmarking
3. Control
1. Liquidity Ratios – ability to satisfy its short-term obligations as they come due, being liquid, do
you have available liquid assets to pay your obligations when they become due
a. Current Ratio
i. Current Assets/ Current Liabilities
ii. Assesses how much current assets do you have (available) for every peso
of current liability
iii. Preferably more than one, implying that there are more assets to cover
each peso/dollar of current liability
2. Asset Efficiency Ratios – ratios related to the activities of the firm and is related to operations,
measures how efficient does the firm operate along a variety of dimensions
a. Inventory Turnover
i. COGS/Inventory
ii. Measures how many times is inventory converted and sold to customers
iii. High Inventory Turnover for perishable, minute goods, but low for high-
value goods
iv. Average age of inventory=365/Inventory Turnover (how many days
before an average inventory is sold)
b. Receivables Turnover
i. Net Credit Revenues/ Accounts Receivables
ii. Measures how many times receivables have been turned into cash
(Collection)
iii. Average age of receivable=365/Receivable Turnover (how many days
before a receivable is converted to cash), compare it with the discount period (it
can assess the discounting policy)
c. Payable Turnover
i. Net Credit Purchases/ Accounts Payable
ii. Measures how many times you purchase on account in a year
iii. Average payment period=365/Payable turnover (how many days on
average before a payable is paid), compare it with credit period
3. Leverage Ratio- assesses the firm’s financial leverage of the company (magnification of risk and
return through the use of fixed cost financing)
c. Equity Multiplier
i. Total Assets/Total Equity
ii. Measures the amount of a firm’s assets that are financed by its
shareholders
iii. High equity multiplier means the company is heavily dependent on the
debt
4. Profitability Ratio – assess the ability to generate profits after spending expenses
5. Market Ratio- How investors (market) view the value of the firm
a. Price Earnings Ratio
i. Market Price per common stock/Earning per share
ii. Amount that investors are willing to pay for each dollar of a firm’s earnings
iii. Degree of confidence that investors have in future performance of firm
b. Market/Book Ratio
i. Market Price per common stock /Book Value per common stock
ii. How much are investors willing to pay for every peso of book value of the
share
Dupont Identity
The return on equity is believed to be driven by three factors, including:
o Operating Efficiency, evidenced by the Net Profit Margin
o Asset Management, evidenced by Total Asset Turnover
o Financial Leverage, evidenced by Equity Multiplier
Formula:
ROE = NP Margin X Total Asset Turnover X Equity Multiplier
Trend Analysis
It is the comparison of different financial statement line items and/or financial ratios in order to
evaluate the performance of the operations in a given period.
When different financial statements line items are compared, two analyses can be made:
o Common-size Analysis
We get the percentage of the certain line items to the total (for Income Statement this
would be the revenue, and for Balance Sheet this would be the Total Assets)
This helps us compare the line items to each other (one revenue stream vs the other, or
marketing expense vs salaries expense, current assets vs fixed assets, etc)
o Index Analysis
We get the percentage of the certain line items to the index period (like the
depreciation in year 3 over in year 1, or the cash from quarter 4 over the quarter 1).
Clearly, the identification of an index year is crucial in order to perform this analysis.
This helps us understand the changes that happened to a particular line item over the
course of the period.
Financial ratios, on the other hand, can be compared to:
o Other periods
o Other companies/industry benchmarking
Sources:
Fundamentals of Financial Management by Van Horne, 13th edition
Fundamentals of Financial Management by Brigham and Houston, 11th Edition
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Berk, DeMarzo, and Harford, 4th Edition
Revenues P600,000
Less: Cost of goods sold 460,000
Gross profits P140,000
Less: Operating expenses
General and administrative expenses P30,000
Depreciation expense 30,000 60,000
Operating profits P 80,000
Less: Interest expense 10,000
Net profits before taxes P 70,000
Less: Taxes 27,100
Net profits after taxes (earnings available for common stockholders) P 42,900
Earnings per share (EPS) P2.15
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Based on a 365-day year and on end-of-year figures.
EXERCISE 2. Provided is an incomplete balance sheet for Dracarys Aviation, Inc. based on the following
financial data.
Balance Sheet
Dracarys Aviation, Inc.
December 31, 2020
EXERCISE 3. Robert Arias recently inherited a stock portfolio from his uncle. Wishing to learn more
about the companies in which he is now invested, Robert performs a ratio analysis on each one and
decides to compare them to each other. Some of his ratios are listed below.
Assuming that his uncle was a wise investor who assembled the portfolio with care, Robert finds the wide
differences in these ratios confusing. Help him out.
a. What problems might Robert encounter in comparing these companies to one another on the basis of
their ratios?
b. Why might the current and quick ratios for the electric utility and the fast-food stock be so much lower
than the same ratios for the other companies?
c. Why might it be all right for the electric utility to carry a large amount of debt, but not the software
company?
d. Why wouldn’t investors invest all of their money in software companies instead of in less profitable
companies? (Focus on risk and return.)
EXERCISE 4. The new owners of Bluegrass Natural Foods, Inc., have hired you to help them diagnose and
cure problems that the company has had in maintaining adequate liquidity. As a first step, you perform a
liquidity analysis. You then do an analysis of the company’s short-term activity ratios. Your calculations
and appropriate industry norms are listed.
a. What recommendations relative to the amount and the handling of inventory could you make to the
new owners?
b. What recommendations relative to the amount and the handling of accounts receivable could you make
to the new owners?
c. What recommendations relative to the amount and the handling of accounts payable could you make to
the new owners?
d. What results, overall, would you hope your recommendations would achieve? Why might your
recommendations not be effective?
III. ANALYSIS
1. Why is there a need to understand the different components of the financial statements?
2. How are each classification of financial ratios useful to the management/other stakeholders?
3. As a financial analyst, what ratio do you think companies should always check on? Why?
4. What is the value in studying the trend in the financial statement line items and financial ratios?
IV. INTEGRATION
1. What ratio do you think would be useful to you in your student life?
V. INDEPENDENT LEARNING
The whole class will be grouped into 6 groups, which will be communicated by the instructor. The task is
as follows:
PREPARED BY: