Chapter
4: ANALYSING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
After
read through a chapter, there are some key concepts that I found:
1.The
two common frameworks used by people to analyse firms:
The discount cash flow (DCF) and
economic profit frameworks.
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An example about Ryman Healthcare is very clearly for me to understand Free Cash Flow. As I know, free
cash flow refer to the amount of cash available from operations after paying
for planned investments in plant, equipment and other long-term assets, and
after paying dividends to shareholders. Cash flows are important to company’s
survival. Cash flow data help to spot losers than they help to spot winners.
When a company’s business is booming, profits are high and cash flows are
usually improving. A negative cash flow from operations warrants investigation.
A cash turndown in a single year is not necessarily a danger signal, But
negative cash flows for two consecutive years may throw a company into
liquidation. Without cash flow from operations, a business simply cannot
survive.
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The economic profit
model highlights how and when the company creates value yet leads to a
valuation that is identical to that of enterprise DCF. An advantage of the
economic profit model over the DCF model is that economic profit is a useful
measure for understanding a company’s performance in any single year, whereas
free cash flow is not.
Economic profit = (RNOA-Cost of capital)*
NOA
Where RNOA = OI/NOA
2. The
most powerful way of viewing a business: viewing a firm as having separate
operating and financial activities.
We need to know what is operating and financial
activities. After having an understanding about that, we can separate them easily.
A firm’s Operating activities, which is usually where value is added (or destroyed)
by a firm. Financial activities relate to loan, bank, borrowing....
The first thing I need to do in my assignment
is that I need to separate two those activities to start restating financial statements.
3. Restate
two key financial statements: balance sheet and income statement.
I have a big question for this section: why
the company do not restate their financial statement before they have been public?
A balance sheet statement is so easy to restate
if I can separate the operating and financial assets and liabilities of my company.