Note Taking - Corporate Finacial Statement Analysis
Note Taking - Corporate Finacial Statement Analysis
Note Taking - Corporate Finacial Statement Analysis
ANALYSIS
Outline of the course
2. Balance sheet
Assets = Liabilitties + Equity
3. Income statement
Revenue – Expenses = Net income
4. Statement of cash flows: The insight of accountants is to separate those cash flows in to 3 categories:
Operating activies (which company does every single day):
o Collect cash
o Cash paid for investing
o Cash paid for wages, rent, advertising
Leverage ratio
How much money has been borrowed to purchase assets
Formula:
Leverage ratio =
Total assets
Stockholder equity
Efficiency ratio
Measuring how much sales are generated from the company assets
Formula:
Total sales
Effieciency ratio =
Total assets
Profitabitity ratio
Measuring how much income is generated from sales
Formula:
Net income
Profitability ratio =
Sales
Formula of ROE
ROE =
Total assets Total sales Net income
× ×
Stockholder equity Total assets Sales
Not good 10% Very good 20%
2. Common-size statement
This converts a company’s raw financial statement number into percentage of total sales or percentage of total assets
The purpose of common-size financial statements:
o To compare two companies for that matter, you have to do some kind of adjustment for size
o Common-size financial allows us to drill down into the financial statement and target where we will spend
our time and energy investigating differences
Profitability ratios
When we talk about profit, we have:
o Gross profit
o Operating income
o Operating profit
o Net earnings
Total revenue $110,360
Cost of revenue $38,353
Gross margin $72,007
R&D $14,726
S&M $17,469
Operating income $35,058
Other Income, net $1,416
Income before taxes $36,474
Income tax expense $19,903
Net income/ Net earnings $16,571
Efficiency ratios
The operating cycle: length of time when inventory is purchased by the company to when cash is collected from the
sale of inventory
Number of day’s sales in inventory: tells me how long on average does my inventory stay with me until it’s sold
365
Day’s sales in inventory =
Inventory turnover
Average collection period: tells me, om average, how long from when I sell sth on credit until I collect the cash
Debt ratios
Liabilities
Debt ratio =
Assets
Debt-to-equity ratio =
Total liabilities
Total shareholder investment