Business Analysis : Using Financial Statements

Financial Statement Analysis is the process of reviewing and analyzing a company’s financial statements to make better decisions. These statement includes the Income statement, Balance sheet, Statement of cash flows and a statement of changes in equity.

The approaches mentioned above can be used to analyze any company. The company can be a startup company or a big established company such as Apple, Google, IBM, etc. We use Porter’s five-forces model to evaluate if the company is profitable or not.

In order to ascertain how well a company is performing, analyses must be done in regard to the business being stable, including its’ ability to pay debts, how much cash or other liquid assets are available, and whether the organization is viable enough to continue operations. These analyses typically look at income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flow, where current and past performance will be studied with the goal of predicting how the company will perform in the future.

In 2016, the company has 8,970,824 US Dollars in Long Term Assets (Current Assets: 7,036,578), 146,947,000 US Dollars in profits, and 6,959,225 US Dollars in Total Liabilities (Current Liabilities: 2,689,770). The problem with Labilities is that it is debt that has to be paid off over a certain period of time and in this case for current liabilities, it is a year. Labilities are expected to be paid off with cash but that’s a problem for Cabela’s. Cabela’s has a cash flow of -51,241,000 US Dollars and a long term debt value of 3,158,085 US Dollars which means cash is limited for Cabela’s. The current Ratio is at 2.616 which means the company is not managing its assets a properly and in turn could be having financial issues. [2] What is also not a good sign is the debt to equity ratio is 3.460 and this value is a sign that the Cabela’s has a high debt level and is having financial troubles. [3] Then the Return on Sales Ratio is .04 or 4% which terrible because this percent should be over 10%. Another sign that a company is having trouble is that the Acid Test Ratio is 2.30 because the ratio value should never be over 1. These troubling financial records shows that Cabela’s is having troubles but the real certain are in the direction of the

This data set is divided into three categories, this paper compares only three ratios for each category; Solvency Ratios: Quick Ratio, Current Ratio, and Current Liabilities to Inventory Ratio; Efficiency Ratios: Collection Period Ratio, Assets to Sales Ratio, and Accounts Payable to Sales Ratio; Profitability Ratios: Return on Sales Ratio, Return on Assets, and Return on Net Worth.

-After choosing the actions; it is necessary entering the financial figures and other data for calculations.

One is Working capital to total assets ratio that measures a firm’s ability to pay off its short-term liabilities and is calculated by subtracting current liabilities from current assets divided by total assets. The retained earnings to total assets ratio that measures a firm’s use of its total asset base to generate earnings is also used. It is important to note that retained earnings can be easily manipulated distorting the final calculation. The third financial ratio used by the Z score formula is the market value of equity to book value of debt. This is the inverse of the debt to equity ratio, and it shows the amount a firm’s assets can decline in value before liabilities exceed assets. For closely held firms, stockholders’ equity or total assets less total liabilities can be used but this amount has not been statistically verified for purposes of the formula. The sale to total assets ratio that measures a firm’s ability to generate sales with its asset base is also used. The fifth financial ratio is the operating income to total assets. This ratio is the most important factor in the formula because its profit that eventually makes or breaks a firm. In calculating the Z score, each of these ratios is given a weight factor that is used within the formula. (IOMA’s report, 2003). See appendix I for the Z score formula and how to interpret the results obtained. The Z score is used by firms when running regular financial data and firms use it to spot

However, as discussed before, According to the Key Industrial Financial Ratio U.S. Industrial Long-Term Debt table, a company whose ratio is ranked as A has the long-term debt/capital ratio and Total debt/Capitalization of 33.9% and 42.5% respectively. Thus, 40% of the debt ratio was used for valuation model for Target

3. Using the data provided by the simulation model presented in the case and your personal assessment, what capital structure would you recommend to Diageo?

Regression analysis seems to be extremely useful in determining financial distress and the bankruptcy of firms. In fact, in a particular study conducted by Bredart in 2014, it was presented that regression analysis was able to show an 84% prediction accuracy rate in determining bankruptcy of 870 firms between the years of 2000 and 2012 (Bredart, 2014). The independent variables used in Bredart study included profitability (net income/total assets), liquidity (current assets/current liabilities), and solvency (equity/total assets) while the dependent variable included financial distress.

For the analysis we have used the historical financial data of the company, the history of the company and its financing policy, and the financial data of its competitors.

For any company, the ability to meet its short-term and long-term financial goals is an essential factor in maintaining its operations and ensuring future growth. A company evaluation at regular time intervals helps to check its financial health, its capital structure and its potential to attract investors.

I. Introduction of company valuation methods and process........................................................3 1. Abstract................................................................................................................................3 2. Valuation methods...............................................................................................................3 2.1 Balance sheets – Based methods

The concept of zeta score is useful to identify the risk of bankruptcy associated with corporations or individuals. In case of credit analysis, zeta analysis is quite effective to list applicants of loan as per their zeta score. This process is useful to identify those applicants who have high risk of bankruptcy on the basis of their high zeta score, which is significant to avoid potential loss (Reilly and Brown, 2011).

To asses Morse Photo Company’s financial situation and creditworthiness we examine some key figures and use Z – score model.