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National Electric Corporation ( National )

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National Electric Corporation (National), mainly manufactures and sales equipment and appliances for the generation, transmission, utilization, and control of electricity. Other business ventures include, land development and sales, construction activities, and credit. National Credit Corporation (NCC), a subsidiary of National, extends credit for deals secured by real or personal property and in leasing transactions. We have been asked to analyze National’s quality of earnings for 2001 and 2002. In addition, we will advise Janet Blair, current investor, if she should buy more or sell her existing shares with the company. In review of NCC, the finance subsidiary, we found the company is taking on increasing amounts of debt. The result is …show more content…

However, sales only grew 12.10% for the same period. (See Appendix A) The case indicates that National recognizes sales at the point of shipment. A more conservative approach would be to delay revenue recognition. In 2002, the receivables turnover ratio was 4.36 down from 5.01 in 2001. This indicates the company is slower on A/R collection from the previous year. (See Appendix B) An analysis of deferred taxes disclosed the following changes. Deferred taxes have increased by over 170% from the previous year. This increase produces higher profits for the company, but the earnings experiences are not considered as high quality earnings. The outcome looks good in the short term but should prove to be negative in the long run. Other issues include no bad debt reserves, cumulative undistributed foreign subsidiary earnings of $180 million being reinvested for an unknown period with no deferred taxes being reported, and reporting differences between 2002 earnings of $161 million compared to cash flow from operations of $35 million. In closing, based off of our findings above we would advise Ms. Blair to sell her existing shares with National Electric Corporation. Further, this report will support our findings by identifying and discussing possible warnings that National may be presenting in financial statements that are overly optimistic and therefore may not be a fair

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