2, 3, 4 Questions and Answers
Financial statement analysis – answer scrutinizing a company's financial statments
future and current while valuing equity and debt
owner claim – answer reflected in equity value
non owner claim – answer reflected in obligation
4 step process - answer1) understand the business enviornment and account info
2) adjusting and assesing Fin. info
3) forecasting fin. info.
4) using info for valuaiton
4 main business activities - answer- plan business activities
- finance activities
- invest in those actions
- engage in operating activities
- past financial statments provide info for these decisions
- current decisions affect future fin. statements
EDGAR – answer collects all public firms financial statements
Discolsure benefits - answer-lower cost of capital
- recruiting and retaining labor
- negotiation w/ customers and suppliers
discolusre cost - answer- time and effort to prepare
- competitive disadvantage
- legal and political costs
Sarbarnes-Oxley Act - answer-2002
- protect investors rights
balance sheet – answer reports firms finance position at a point in time
- reports assets, liabilities, equity
- reports resources and financing activities
Income Statement – answer reports firms performance over a period of time
- revenue-expenses= profit
, - profitablity largerly determined by ability to create barriers to competitive pressure and
control operating expense
Statement of Cash Flows - answerreports inflows and outflows of cash during a period
of time
3 flows
1) operating activity
2) investing activity
3) financing activity
Statement of Shareholders' Equity - answerreport changes in equity over a period of
time
- contributed capital - stockholders net contributions to the company
5 fources of business enviornment - answer1) industry competition
2) barganing power of suppliers
3) bargaining power of distributors
4) threat of subsitition
5) threat of entry
assets - answer-owned or controlled by the company
- generate expected future economic benefits
-sorted in terms of liquidity
current assets - answercash and other assets expected to be exchanged for cash or
consumed within a year
-cash/cash equivalent
-short term investments
-accounts recivables
-inventory
-pre-paid expense
long term assets - answerassets that are expected to be used in business operations for
longer than one year
-PP&E
-long term investments
-intangible assets
market value - answerproduct of stock price and the # of outstanding common shares
book value - answerdetermined by GAAP (historical cost)
liabilities - answernon-owner financing; represents future economic sacrifies
stockholders equity - answerowner financing
-capital invested by stockholder