IBF PPT Lecture # 3 (10102023) (Financial Statements)
IBF PPT Lecture # 3 (10102023) (Financial Statements)
IBF PPT Lecture # 3 (10102023) (Financial Statements)
Income Statement:
Income Statement, also known as the Profit and Loss
Statement, reports the company's financial performance in
terms of net profit or loss over a specified period. Income
Statement is composed of the following two elements:
Advantages:
The primary advantage of the income statement is
the information it gives on revenues.
Drawbacks:
The major disadvantage of an income statement is
that it is considered as a fiction because it is based on
accrual accounting and it does not give the cash
transactions. Cash is king and free cash cannot be
calculated through income statement.
Balance Sheet:
Balance Sheet, also known as the Statement of Financial Position, presents
the financial position of an organization at a given date. It includes the
following three elements:
Equity: What the business owes to its owners. This represents the
amount of capital that remains in the business after its assets are used to pay
off its outstanding liabilities. Equity therefore represents the difference
between the assets and liabilities.
Reference No. 1 Topic: Balance Sheet
Advantages:
Balance Sheet helps to communicate information about the
financial position of the business at a particular moment in time.
Drawbacks:
One of the potential disadvantages of a balance sheet is that it
is only a financial snapshot of the condition of a company. This
means that it only take into consideration what is going onthat
moment with the business.
Advantages:
It provides adequate information as regards to
the inflows and outflows of cash resources to
and from the enterprise.
Drawbacks:
One of the potential disadvantages of the statement of cash flows is that it
does not take into consideration any future growth. When looking at the
statement of cash flows, you are essentially looking at information from the
past business operations.