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Chapter 5
ACCT 6301
FALL 2019
Tonight’s
Topics SUA Part 3 Walkthrough
Analysts
Life cycle Customers Labor
Facilitates comparison
◦ Across companies of different sizes, and
◦ Between accounts within a set of financial statements
Percent Change =
Net income is 33% lower in the year ending February 1, 2019 compared to the prior year,
principally due to a significant increase in selling, general and administrative expenses.
Net income
ROE = Average stockholders’ equity
Net income
ROE = Average stockholders’ equity
$2,698 M
ROE = [($3,644 M + $5,873 M) / 2] = 56.70%
Lowe’s generated about 8 cents of profit for every dollar in its average
assets throughout the year
PM AT
Can be improved by
◦ Increasing sales revenue
◦ Decreasing assets
Measures the percentage of each sales dollar that is left over after
product costs are subtracted
Lowe’s $71,309-$48,401
2018 GPM = $71,309 = 32.1%
ETS = Expense
Sales revenue
Measures the percentage of each sales dollar that goes to cover a
specific expense item
Can be applied to any category of expenses
Since the majority of Lowes’ sales are credit card transactions, Lowe’s carries a
very low balance for receivables.
Too much debt is risky. It causes interest expense which decreases profit.
When earnings are depressed, financial leverage makes a bad year worse.
Current assets
Current ratio = Current liabilities
Quick assets
Quick ratio =
= $511M + $218M
Quick Ratio = 0.050
$14,497M
An analysis of Lowe’s at February 1, 2019 shows it will likely be able to pay its current obligations as
they come due over the next year, however much of its current assets is tied up in inventory.
It’s free cash flow is high enough that the Cash Burn Rate is not relevant.
Total liabilities
Debt-to-equity =
Stockholders’ equity
ratio
= $30,864
Debt-to-equity ratio = 8.47
$3,644
Lowe’s debt-to-equity ratio is much higher than the retail industry average
of 1.38, indicating less solvency.
= $3,394 + $652
Times interest earned = 6.21 times
$652
Over the recent past, Lowe’s times interest earned has dropped from over
9 (above the industry average) to 6.2 (below the industry average).
$2,782 M
= = 13.3%
($19,393M+ $22,358M) / 2
Lowe’s generated 13.3% return on its net operating assets.
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Disaggregation of RNOA:
Net Operating Asset Turnover
(NOAT)
Sales
NOAT = Average NOA
$71,309
= 3.42
($19,393M+ $22,358M) / 2
For every dollar of net operating assets, Lowe’s realizes $3.42 in sales.
NOAT measures the productivity of the company’s net operating assets.
$2,282M
= 3.90
$71,309M
For every dollar of sales at Lowe’s for its year ending February 1, 2019, the
company earns 3.90 cents of profit after all operating expenses and taxes.
= 3.90% × 3.42
= 13.3%
Learning Objective
LEANRING
Prepare
OBJECTIVE 6
(OPTIONAL)
forecasts of
future
financial
statements.
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Financial Statement Forecasts
Forecast statements are hypothetical statements
◦ Prepared to reflect specific assumptions about the company and its
transactions
Seven steps to prepare these forecasts:
1. Forecast sales revenue
2. Forecast operating expenses (e.g., COGS and SG&A expenses)
3. Forecast operating assets and liabilities
4. Forecast nonoperating assets, liabilities, contributed capital, revenues, and
expenses
5. Forecast net income, dividends, and retained earnings
6. Forecast the amount of cash required to balance the balance sheet
7. Prepare a cash flow forecast based on the forecasted income statement and
balance sheet
Forecasted revenues =
Current revenues × (1 + Revenue growth rate)
The same approach can be applied to other operating assets and operating liabilities.
Forecast dividends
◦ Relies on the dividend payout ratio
◦ Dividend payments / Net income
OR
◦ Assume that excess cash is invested in marketable securities and increase the amount of interest income
Any changes may require adjustments of income taxes, net income, dividends and retained
earnings
Forecast errors
◦ Differences between the forecasted and the actual amounts