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In this document, we explore the difference between operating and non-operating assets,
liabilities, income, and expense and how to use this distinction to reformulate financial
statements. We outline the profitability framework and the accounting decomposition of ROE
and how to use the decomposition to evaluate firm performance. We also outline the types of
ratios used for to analyze factors other than firm profitability: growth prospects, short-term
liquidity risk, and long-term solvency risk.
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1.0. THE NEED TO REFORMULATE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Before we begin to perform our financial statement analysis, we need to reformulate the
financial statements to help us distinguish between operating and non-operating assets and
liabilities. The reformulation effectively aligns the financial statements with the activities
(operating, investing, and financing) of the business.
Assets Liabilities
Net Operating Assets (NOA) Current Operating Assets Current Operating Liabilities
(Assets – Liabilities) Long-Term Operating Assets Long-Term Operating Liabilities
Equity
As the diagram on the previous page indicates, non-operating assets and liabilities are primarily
financial in nature and include short and long-term investments in marketable securities and
borrowings of interest-bearing debt (short term notes and interest payable, current portion of
long-term debt, bonds and notes payable, and capitalized lease obligations), and stockholders’
equity.
Operating Revenue OR
Operating Expense (OE )
Operating Income OI
Financial Expense FE
Financial Income (FI)
Net Financial Expense (NFE )
Earnings
Similar to nonoperating assets and liabilities, nonoperating revenues and expenses are also
primarily financial in nature and include interest income and expense, dividend income, hedging
gains or losses, debt retirement gains/losses.
The table below lists common operating/nonoperating income statement items and classifies
these items as core (persistent or sustainable) or transitory.
Core Transitory
Operating Sales, COGS, SG&A Expenses, R&D Operating Asset Write-Offs,
Expenses, Income Taxes Nonrecurring Restructuring Charges,
Gains/Losses from Operating Asset Sales
Nonoperating Dividend Income, Interest Income and Debt Retirement Gains/Losses,
Expense, Hedging Gains and Losses
To make sure that you are comfortable with the format of the reformulated statements, we will
review Class Exercise 3.1 Nike.
Implementation Issues
We will reformulate two sets of statements (Class Exercises 3.2 and 3.3) in class and discuss
implementation issues when reformulating our statements.
Balance sheet and correspondence line items on income statements need to be consistent
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For example, if classify equity investment on the balance sheet as operating (in other
words, those equity investments are crucial in the operations of the business), the equity
income associated with the equity investment on the income statement must also be
classified as part of operating.
Discontinued Operations
Discontinued operations are subsidiaries or business segments that the board of directors
has formally decided to divest.
Companies must report discontinued operations on a separate line, below income from
continuing operations.
If we include the net assets of discontinued operations as operating activities, it will
downward bias the RNOA calculations.
Net income from discontinued operations should be treated as non-core operating as well.
Note: it is still part of operating activities, but we create a non-core category (especially
in the income statement)
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Preferred stock holders
Preferred stock holders are more like debtholders from the common shareholder’s
perspective. The presence of preferred stock requires two adjustments
1. Preferred dividends should be included in NFE
2. Preferred stock must be subtracted from stockholders’ equity in CSE and classify
as NFO.
Dividends Payable
Since we are conducting our analysis from the shareholder’s perspective, we cannot
technically owe ourselves money. This should be reclassified in CSE instead of leaving
it in NFO.
Capital Leases
• Essentially, the lessee is purchasing the asset by obtaining financing from the lessor.
Treat Leasedhold Assets as operating, and Leasehold Obligation as financing.
An important tool in financial statement analysis is ratio analysis. Ratios summarize data in a
form that is relatively easy to understand, interpret, and compare.
Time-series analysis is useful for identifying trends and assessing the permanency of recent
changes in the ratios. Cross-sectional analysis is useful for evaluating the performance of a firm
relative to its competitors.
Ratio analysis is typically applied to historical data, but it can also be applied to forecasts,
primarily in order to evaluate the plausibility of the underlying forecasting assumptions.
Various ratios are used in evaluating each of the four dimensions (profitability, growth, short-
term liquidity risk, and long-term solvency risk). I next briefly discuss the more important ratios
from each group.
(1) Ratios used to analyze profitability given reported earnings and other financial
information
(2) Ratios used to evaluate the quality of reported earnings and other financial information
3.1. Ratios Used to Analyze Profitability Given Reported Earnings and Other Financial
Information
As the diagram below suggests, this analysis has four levels: shareholder profitability (level I),
profitability of assets versus the leverage effect (level II), profit margin versus asset turnover
(level III), and common size income statement and individual asset turnover ratios (level IV).
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NOPAT refers to “net operating profit after tax.”
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NFO refers to “net financial obligations.”
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The Spread determines the rate of increase in ROE with increases in leverage (i.e., the
more positive the Spread, the greater the rate by which ROE increases with FLEV).
• RNOA measures profitability from operating and investing activities, while ROE measures
profitability from all three activities: operating, investing, and financing. Thus, ROE –
RNOA reflects the effect of financing activities.
• Leverage increases financial risk, and should therefore be associated with higher profitability
on average.
• Profitability from operating and investing activities is typically more persistent and less
volatile than profitability from financing activities.
• When analyzing NOPM and NOAT, it is very important to be aware of the industry in which
the firm operates. Firms can produce a given level of RNOA with almost endless
combinations of NOPM and NOAT: capital-intensive industries need high NOPMs to offset
lower NOATs, while service companies often rely on high NOAT to offset lower NOPM.
• Percentage-wise, income is more variable than sales and assets. This is primarily due to
operating leverage. Therefore, changes in asset turnover are generally more persistent than
changes in profit margin.
3.1.4. Level IV: Common-size Income Statement and Individual Asset Turnover Ratios
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3.1.4.1. NOPM Drivers
• These ratios are used to further analyze the profit margin. They are often presented as part of
a common-size income statement (common-size income statements are obtained by dividing
each line in the income statement by sales).
• The NOAT drivers are often expressed in an alternative format that reflects the amount of
days each asset or liability is held:
Days in Accounts Receivable = 365 4 ÷ ART
Days in Inventory = 365 ÷ INVT
Days in Accounts Payable = 365 ÷ APT
4.1 Ratios Used to Evaluate the Overall Quality of Earnings and Other
Financial Information
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It is wrong to think of accounts payable (trade credit) as zero-interest financing, even though no
interest is usually associated with AP. Suppliers who provide credit without interest usually
charge higher prices for goods/services supplied than would be the case if cash was paid.
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365 assumes that you are analyzing AR annually. If you are analyzing AR quarterly, you
would use 90 in the numerator instead of 365.
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(Net Income – Cash from Operations) ÷ Net Income
• This ratio indicates the relative size of the noncash component of earnings (accruals).
• All else equal, analysts “prefer” cash earnings over accruals.
• Research suggests that accruals are indeed less persistent than cash from operations, although
there is substantial evidence that firms also manipulate cash from operations (e.g., through
sale of receivables, timing of sales and expenditures, and capitalization of expenditures).
• This ratio is not meaningful when earnings are negative or close to zero. In such cases, one
may scale accruals by assets or sales instead.
• Unusual items include restructuring charges, impairment charges, write-downs, other income
(expense), gains and losses.
• Unusual items are less likely to recur.
• Prior-year unusual items may facilitate overstatement of current earnings.
• The category “other income (expense)” includes small gains and losses and other one-time
items that are not material enough to be disclosed separately. However, for some companies,
this category may also include recurring items unrelated to core operations (e.g., share in
earnings of affiliated companies).
• Seemingly one-time items may actually recur (e.g., restructuring charges).
… and there are many additional ratios in this group. We will discuss them as we cover the
specific line items in Part II.
=
(Salest −1 − COGSt −1 ) Salest −1
(Salest − COGSt ) Salest
● Declining margins suggests poorer prospects
● Firms with poor prospects are more likely to manipulate earnings
5. Depreciation Index
Depreciationt −1 (Depreciationt −1 + PPEt −1 )
DEPI t =
Depreciationt (Depreciationt + PPEt )
● A higher ratio suggest a slowing down of depreciation
● Raises the possibility that the firm increased the useful life estimate or adopted a new
depreciation method
7. Leverage
LVGI t =
[(LongTermDebtt + CurrentLiabilitiest ) TotalAssetst ]
[(LongTermDebtt -1 + CurrentLiabilitiest −1 ) TotalAssetst −1 ]
● Higher leverage suggests higher debt contracting incentives to manipulate
8. TATA
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Accrualst
TATAt =
TotalAssetst
● Total accruals to total assets
● All else equal, less accruals are better
Eight Variables:
M = -4.84 + 0.92*DSRI + 0.528*GMI + 0.404*AQI + 0.892*SGI + 0.115*DEPI – 0.172*SGAI
+ 4.679*TATA – 0.327*LVGI
Five Variables:
M = -6.065 + 0.823*DSRI + 0.906*GMI + 0.593*AQI + 0.717*SGI + 0.107*DEPI
Past and Current Growth Rates in Revenue, Assets, Equity, and Earnings
• These ratios compare investments (e.g., business acquisitions, capital expenditures, R&D
expenditures, investments in working capital) with either revenue or assets.
• Unlike past growth rates, these ratios are forward-looking.
• The source of growth, internal (organic) versus external, has important value implications.
• The analysis of growth and its sources is also relevant for understanding life cycle effects.
• The operating cycle measures the elapsed time from the purchase of inventory to ultimate
collection of the receivable generated from the sale of the inventory.
• The cash-to-cash cycle measures the amount of time the firm is “down” cash. In the diagram
below, the operating cycle is 120 days, AP days is 30, and the cash-to-cash cycle is 90 days.
90 days of operations must be financed (with debt or equity).
For a number of years, Dell had a negative cash-to-cash cycle (Dell collected cash from
customers before paying its suppliers). This means that Dell did not have to finance its
investment in inventory or AR with debt or equity. 100% of this investment is financed by
Dell’s suppliers at zero cost to Dell.
• The current ratio, therefore, indicates the ability of existing assets to settle existing liabilities
within the next year (or operating cycle).
• Some current assets are less liquid than others or are not expected to generate cash (e.g.,
inventory, prepaid expenses). Quick assets are highly liquid current assets such as cash,
marketable securities, and accounts receivable.
• These ratios indicate the degree of liquidity of different current assets and current liabilities.
• The ratios are calculated by comparing the end of year balance of the asset or liability with
the corresponding flow (sales, cost of goods sold, or purchases).
• The more important ratios in this group are AR turnover (or AR days), inventory turnover
(inventory days), and AP turnover (AP days).
• This ratio indicates the ability of cash from operations to pay existing current liabilities.
• A common-size balance sheet is prepared by dividing each balance sheet item by total assets.
• These ratios are useful for evaluating the maturity match of assets and liabilities.
• Historical volatility predicts future volatility. All else equal, higher income or cash flow
variability implies higher likelihood of financial distress.
• Fixed costs are those that cannot be adjusted when sales change. High operating leverage
implies low operating flexibility and hence high risk of incurring losses.
Times Interest Earned = Earnings before Interest and Taxes ÷ Interest Expense
• This ratio reflects the income available to service the current debt burden. Management
prefers a high ratio, which reflects low default risk
• This ratio indicates the ability of cash from operations to pay all existing liabilities.
Altman’s Z-Score
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Z-Score = 1.2 * (working capital/total assets) + 1.4 *(retained earnings/total assets) + 3.3*
(EBIT/total assets) + 0.6* (market value of equity/total liabilities) + 0.99* (sales/total assets)
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APPENDIX
NI
ROE = (1) 5
Equity
NFO
ROE = RNOA + ( RNOA − NBC ) (4)
Equity
Few observations
For a firm with no debt, ROE=RNOA.
For firms with leverage, the higher the leverage (i.e., NFO/CSE), the higher the ROE, provided that
(RNOA-NBC)>0.
5
For the ease of reading, the word ‘average’ before balance sheet items is dropped.
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Now…
If a firm can increase its ROE by borrowing more, can it increase its’ share price by borrowing
more?
The quick answer is no. Why?
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