In this class you can find all the articles about accounting, finance and control.
Introduction: -> Is the CONTROL part of the Plan & Control Cycle: GOALS: -> CEO & Shareholders. -> Indicators: -> The hp that we can deploy a long-term strategy is not applicable: it’s difficult to foresight what will happen in 10 years. (we assume we can still do that). PLAN of ACTIONS (Budgeting): -> DEF: […]
Management Reporting Leggi tutto »
-> DEF: indicators which provide managers with earlier signals (drivers) of value creation: Introduction: -> Untill now we analysed: -> PROBLEMS: => We need another type of indicators: the VALUE DRIVERS. The “Value” Tree: -> DEF: tools to understand how increase the equity or enterprise value. -> CHAR: EBITDA = REVENUES – CASH COST CASH
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-> Last part of the course: PLAN & CONTROL. TARGETING: means set the goals (that we can connect with the balanced scorecards) and it’s linked with the concept of budgeting. Timing: till now the analysis was about the past with the ratio analysis. To compute the Enterprise value and the Equity value we need the
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-> DEF: The value of an asset is compared to the values assessed by the market for similar or comparable assets. -> CHAR: -> IS PERVASIVE: “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation” H.H. Munro “If you are going to screw up, make sure that you have lots of company” Ex-portfolio manager. -> There
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VALUE BASED INDICATORS: -> DEF: indicators that look to the future and try to predict the result of the company. -> Today is a FINANCIAL Prospective; Cash Generation Cycle: -> Consider the most relevant Cash Flows (not exhaustive): ENTERPRISE: subject of the discussion; SHAREHOLDERS: are the one that give the Equity to the enterprise. DEBTHOLDERS:
Corporate-Finance Analysis Leggi tutto »
CAPITAL: everything that a company has in terms of resources (the value of the company). BOOK VALUE of the COMPANY: calue of the assets of the company. Rappresentation of the company: ASSET PERSPECTIVE EQUITY & LIABILITIES PERSPECTIVE: INVESTED CAPITAL: capital invested in the resources for the production or to provide services = equity + financial
-> DEF LEVERAGE = D/E (Corporate Strategy => D = only financial liabilities). -> DEF: Ratio between the liabilities and the equity: -> Company increase the debt by borrowing money to sustain the investment strategy to grow, buy equipement, invest R&D … -> ⚠It is NOT reducing the equity or increasing dividends. -> OBJ: understand
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-> OBJ: evaluate the status of liquidity and its “coherence” to existing present obligations Connetc these number to the strategy. RATIOS are used two different perspectives: -> Don’t use the financial statement, is the most important component of the profitability analysis (try to explain revenue and costs and the focus is on the cash flows
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-> Matrix used by auditing & consultancy companies. Axes: -> In both we consider the average of the industry where the co9mpany is competing (available online). ORIZONTAL (Operational Efficiency) AXIS: ROA, Return On Assets (=EBIT/Tot Assets) -> revenue/ operating costs; VERTICAL (Risk) AXIS: tot liabilities/ revenue; -> PARETO APPROACH: Consider whose company that the sum
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-> IDEA: aim of annual report is to provide a quick and useful overview of the company’s main results (performance). Summarize information about: ❓Why are they call Accounting-Based Indicators? -> Because the main data come from financial reports. ❓What are Accounting based indicators? -> They are financial indicators because they are calculated on the financial
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