Balance Sheet and Customer Segments

You, Joe Insalacco, are a potential buyer of Daphne’s Catering Ltd. With the financial statements, you are looking to evaluate the performance to determine whether this is a company worth purchasing. You are not familiar with the accounting matters of DCL but your objective is to minimize net income so that you can purchase DCL for a lower price.

The income over the last three years has been fluctuating.. This tells us the company has an initial growth period. Sales also drop between years 7 and 8 and the gross profit margin decreased as well. This may be due to operating expenses. This leads to the prospect of stable future sales. The stakeholders are continuing to back the company and the company does predict sales will remain stable. The modest increase in sales does not show enough to recover without making adjustments to free capital.

With our analysis report, we help Jones to choose whether to take advantage of 2% trade discount, we can observe that Jones’credit line will be $318,000 without discount, not $387,000 with this 2% discount. Problems Statement Jones Electrical Distribution’s current condition is not only cash shortage but also under rapid sales grows’ effect. Why this profitable firm

By using the consolidated income statements, balance sheet and cash flow statement, we can assess the company’s financial position. On the income statement, the company’s operation revenue increased by 4.5% ($393.4 million) from year 2006 while its operating income decreased by $65.1 million in the same period. Without considering the net-cash settlement feature expense recorded in 2007, operating income increased $103.6 million. Even though including the net-cash settlement feature

The operating review of the company lists down the operating losses that the company faced over year and compared it with the past years operating performance. The results suggest that the sales revenue for the company grew over the year; however, due to higher increase in the cost of sales the company had to face a higher gross loss than the past year (Refer to appendix A). Moreover, the company discontinued its noncore retailing operations for the year in an attempt to reduce the losses sustained in the past year, but the result was not positive, and the company had to face higher loss from its core business in 2010 then both the operations combined in the past year (JJB Sports PLC, 2011).

They know that growth is lacking and that in order to survive, DMC must alter course now. Senior leadership needs to determine which market segment to pursue, and how this strategy may or may not affect other areas of the company including, but not limited to: Human Resources, Manufacturing and Distribution. Senior leadership must also be aware that any change in strategy will influence I.T. also. While IT is a broad-minded team willing to offer up technical solutions to advance product development and sales, their budget, as well as other departments has been inhibited over the course of current recession and the inconsistency of returns to the company.

In conclusion, financial statements of Dollar General present the increase in company’s profitability and sales over the last two years, they reduced their expenses as well. The only information that the statements do not disclose is which brands of merchandise increased their sales, and what was the cost of goods sold compared to the profit they made. Since the company was concerned about promotion of their private brand it would be helpful to know what percent of sales does their private brand make comparison to other brands. Nevertheless, the long-term liquidity risk does not look as safe. The company will have to show the stability in its ratios overtime to insure investors that it has low risk and is able to repay its debt in a long run as well as maintain stable

Afterwards, the firm’s revenue began to increase steadily, peaking in the fourth quarter in 1988 at $25,131,000.00. However, when going from the last quarter in 1988 to the first quarter in 2000 we can see a 23% decrease in revenue ending at $19,348.00 which is more than likely a sign that the peak could have been due to a high point in the year from holiday shopping, for example. The company’s Account Receivables, like it’s gross margins, are at it’s lowest in the first quarter of each year. In 1997 in the first quarter the company’s Account Receivables were at $30,857,000.00 which indicates a significant decrease in sales. It was not surprising to see that the point of the company’s highest Account Receivables was in the fourth quarter of 1999 at $37,324,000.00. Due to the fact that the Accounts Receivables were rising and declining linearly in comparison to sales, we can assume that clients were paying off invoices appropriately and that the difference was mainly influenced by the increase or decrease in company sales. IBM’s gross margins were at it’s lowest in the first fiscal quarter of1988 at $6,450,000.00 before increasing to 34% to $9,809,000.00 by the fourth quarter of the same year. The constant slight shifting of gross margins per quarter indicates stability and a positive outlook for the company.

With the increase of competitors and substitutes, sales and profit growth in JD have slowed down. The share price is also declining.

Profit growth has on average exceeded stated goals from 1997-2003, averaging on 33 %. Transaction value, an indicator of the activity level, has grown notably less than profits (207 % vs. 289 % over six years), indicating profitable growth. This contrasts with the general squeeze on profitability and growth for the industry. International operations have not performed well. Transaction value has grown more than 50 % from 2001-2003, while profits have declined 65 %.

The company’s debt ratios are 54.5% in 1988, 58.69% in 1989, 62.7% in 1990, and 67.37% in 1991. What this means is that the company is increasing its financial risk by taking on more leverage. The company has been taking an extensive amount of purchasing over the past couple of years, which could be the reason as to why net income has not grown much beyond several thousands of dollars. One could argue that the company is trying to expand its inventory to help accumulate future sales. But another problem is that the company’s

Also, according to its leverage ratios, the company’s debts are not only very high, but are also increasing. Its decreasing TIE ratio indicates that its capability to pay interests is decreasing. The company’s efficiency ratios indicate that despite the fact that its fixed assets are increasingly being utilized to generate sales during the years 1990-1991 as indicated by its increasing fixed asset turnover ratio, the decreasing total assets turnover indicate that overall the company’s total assets are not efficiently being put to use. Thus, as a whole its asset management is becoming less efficient. Last but not the least, based on its profitability ratios, the company’s ability to make profit is decreasing.

The year 2006 income statement of Garret & Sons Music Company reported net sales of $10 million, cost of goods sold of $6 million, and net income of $1 million. The following table shows the company's comparative balance sheets for 2006 and 2005:

They have a global structure to ensure satisfaction with strategic and financing needs of clients around the world. In the institutional client services segment they facilitate client transactions and make markets in fixed income, equity, currency and commodity products—primarily with institutional clients (GS). In addition to this they make markets and clear client transactions on major stock options and futures exchanges worldwide, provide financing, securities lending and prime brokerage services (GS). Although revenues from these activities are decreasing it is still by far the greatest source of their revenue (GS).

BIBLIOGRAPHYBrigham, Eugene F., and Joel F. Houston. Fundamentals of Financial Management. "D'Leon Inc., Chapter 8 spreadsheet module". Made available on July 17, 2008 by Dr. Richard Constand.