Weeks 1 to 3 Flashcards
Income Statement
Income, expenses —> profit/loss
Balance Sheet
Assets = Liabilities + Stockholder’s equity
Statement of Cash flows
Sources of cash (to raise money):
- decreasing/selling assets
- increasing liability (getting a loan)
- net profit
- depreciation (non cash expense)
- sale of stock (sell stocks)
uses (to lower money)
- buy assets to use (increase)
- pay off loans (decrease liability)
- net loss
- cash dividents
- stock repurchase
Statement of retained earnings
net profits reinvested by the firm to finance future growth
Ratio analysis’ purpose
to monitor, analyze, compare the health of a firm to itself and/or its competitors
cross-sectional analysis
compare the firm to its competition
time series
compare the firm to itself overtime
combination
compare the firm and its competition overtime
combo of cross-sectional analysis and time series
liquidy
the ability of the firm to pay off its short-term debts
measured with NWC, VR, and QR
NWC
networking capital ($)
NWC = CA - CL
for liability
CR
current ratio
CR = CA/CL
for liability
QR
quicker acid-test ratio
QR = (CA - Inv) / CL
for liability
Activity or efficiency
measures asset efficiency and the ability of assets in generating sales
measured with ITO, ACP, FATO, TATO
ITO
inventory turnover
ITO = COGS/Inv
for activity or efficiency
ACP
average collection period: time needed to turn credit sales into cash
ACP = acc. receivables / credit sales per day
for activity or efficiency