Management Discussion & Analysis The Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Rainbow Paint Company make available the examination of the company’s financial results for the period ended December 31, 2012. The following facts should be studied in combination with the audited financial statements and notes to accounts for the period ended December 31, 2012 which is made according to appropriate principles and procedures. All amounts are stated in dollars unless otherwise noted. The discussion contains few statements that may be believed “forward-looking statements”. All reports in the discussion, other than statements of historical facts, are called as the forward looking statements since we have used what we know and expect today to make a decision about the future. The company trusts that the expectations presented in forward looking statements are on the basis of rational expectations. The statements do not provide assurance about future presentation and the real outcomes or growth may vary considerably from those stated in forward looking statement. Forward looking statements contains the terms like may, expect, plan, anticipate, budget, believe or other alike terms. Issues that could result in the difference between real outcomes and forward-looking statements contain market prices, guidelines of government concerning chemical usage, sustained accessibility of money, financing and general economic, and market or corporate circumstances. Investors are alerted again that any such reports do not promise the forthcoming performance and that the real outcomes or growth may not be same as those projected in the forward-looking statements. The growth in the sales in the last few years was reasonably important, but the growth in net i... ... middle of paper ... ...iness is moving. The liquidity of the company is proper as confirmed by the satisfactory current rate, quick ratio, working capital. In terms of asset utilization, the company is able to consume the receivables quite proficiently in contrast to inventory. The number of days occupied to collect receivables is half of the time taken in selling the inventory. In terms of solvency, the company’s position is not very strong as the company is maintaining an equal proportion of debt in comparison to equity. The company is earning approximately six times its interest expense. The profitability of the company during the year was reasonable; it was neither too high nor too low. The earnings per share of the company were $4.10 per share. The market performance of the company was also desirable. It distributed dividends, while maintaining the price earnings ratio.
Net working capital represents organization’s operating liquidity. In order to compute the net working capital, total current assets are divided from total current liabilities. When there is sufficient excess of current assets over current liabilities, an organization might be considered sufficiently liquid. Another ratio that helps in assessing the operating liquidity of as company is a current ratio. The ratio is calculated by dividing the total current assets over total current liabilities. When the current ratio is high, the organization has enough of current assets to pay for the liabilities. Yet, another mean of calculating the organization’s debt-paying ability is the debt ratio. To calculate the ratio, total liabilities are divided by total assets. The computation gives information on what proportion of organization’s assets is financed by a debt, and what is the entity’s ability to pay for current and long term liabilities. Lower debt ratio is better, because the low liabilities require low debt payments. To be able to lend money, an organization’s current ratio has to fall above a certain level, also the debt ratio cannot rise above a certain threshold. Otherwise, the entity will not be able to lend money or will have to pay high penalties. The following steps can be undertaken by a company to keep the debt ratio within normal
The 3 percent decline in sales causing a 21 percent decline in profits can be attributed to the identification of the accounting concept of operating leverage. Operating leverage is what business managers apply to boost small changes in revenue into sizable changes in profitability. Fixed cost is the force managers use to attain disproportionate changes between revenue and profitability. Therefore, when all costs are fixed every sales dollar contributes one dollar toward the potential profitability of a project. Once sales dollars cover fixed costs, each additional sales dollar represents pure profit. A small change in sales volume can significantly affect profitability (Edmonds, Tsay, & Olds, 2011). So, therefore, if sales volume increases,
Looking at the individual ratios seen in exhibit 1 and comparing it to the industry average shown in exhibit 2 gives a sense of where this company stands. Current ratio and quick ratio are really low and have been decreasing. For 1995, the current ratio is 1.15:1, which is less than the industry average of 1.60:1, however to give a better sense of where this stands in the industry, as seen in exhibit 3, it is actually less than the average of the bottom 25% of the industry. The quick ratio is 0.61 is less than the industry is 0.90. Both these ratios serve to point out the lack of cash in this company. The cash flow has been decreasing because, it takes longer to get the money from customers, but the company still needs to pay for its purchases. Also, the company couldn’t go over the $400,000 loan limit, so they were forced to stretch their cash.
Short-term corporate profitability: Residual income growth; sales growth; return on equity; percentage of sales from new products.
This company has been performing well for many years and this this because of their good business model. Everything that was noticed on the income statement was the good performance of company. Their dividends have increased over time; this was due to increased profits. The earnings growth projections for the next four years have increased five percent.
However, financial situation of the firm plays a very important role in the decision of the bondholder and this company has been one of the most profitable companies America in terms of ROE, ROA ad gross profit margin. Apart from decrease in earnings and cash flow in 1997, UST had continuous increases in sales (10-year compound annual growth rate of 9%), earnings (11%) and cash flow (12%). They are generating their cash flows out of the operations. Thanks to their premium pricing, they are achieving more than average gross profit margin. So, over the years UST's revenues are stable and positive, and generally its statements are positive. The company does not have any problems with its cash flow.
As noted in the case, their initial payout ratio was 15%. However, when they considered increasing their dividends, they wanted the payout ratio to be 25% to 30%. The issue at hand is whether or not they can keep a consistent payout even with their drop in sales and earnings in 2003. T...
The main contributing factor to the decline in the return on stockholders’ equity (25.37% to 8.73%) was the decline in the profit margin (11.79% vs. 5.08%). The decrease in asset turnover (1.11 to 1.00) made a small contribution to the decline, as did the decline in the debt ratio (48.4% to 41.8%).
...rs, setting a good trend for the corporation. They also have a very low debt-to-equity ratio, indicating that they have enough equity to easily pay off any funds acquired from creditors. As a creditor I would feel safe in lending them funds for any future projects or endeavors.
Its receivable turnover is 13.4 times per year, which is higher than C-P 10.5. In addition, the average number of days from sale on account to collection for P&G is 27.2 days while for C-P is 34.8 days. Based on the efficiency ratio analysis, P&G’s inventory moves quickly from purchase to sale, which the inventory turnover ratio is 6.2 and the time for the purchased inventories to be on sale is on the average of 58.6 days while C-P’s turnover ratio is 5.2 and the average days to sell is 70.6. This shows that P&G takes a shorter time than C-P to sell their inventories. However, C-P has a higher ability to pay their short-term liabilities, whereby the current ratio is 1.08 as opposed to P&G
In “Bank Debt” alternative, a sum of $3.5 million will be injected to the company through bank loans. However, the company will have to pay an additional amount of $33,750 in interest and a principal payment of $300,000 to the bank annually over the course of 7 years. Net income will come to $489,187.50 and EPS will be 0.49.
Evaluating a company’s financial condition can be done by looking at its profitability or its ability to satisfy long-term commitments. These measures can be viewed through an analysis of a company’s financial statements, including the balance sheet and income statement. This paper will look at the status of Scholastic Company’s (Scholastic) ability to satisfy its long-term commitments and at the profitability of Daktronics, Inc. (Daktronics). This paper will include various financial ratio calculations and an analysis of the notable trends. It will also discuss the profitability and long-term borrowing positions of the firms discussed.
The horizontal analysis shows that IQ’s total current assets increased by 25% and its total current liabilities increased by 40% during 2005. This is largely explained by the increase in trade receivables, the increase in inventory, the increase in trades payable, and the increase in term loans (notes 5, 6, 12, and 13 of the 2005 financial statement). The higher increase in total current liabilities than in total current assets explains why the current and acid-test ratios decreased from 4.66 to 4.17 and from 4.02 to 3.5, respectively. However, IQ seems to remain highly liquid considering the values of the mentioned liquidity ratios.
The debt used to acquire Salomon has been an important issue for the finances of the company. Although financially storng and unlikely to default, the company needs to look into reducing its debt to increase its profitability.
The gross profit margin is at 27% which is a percent higher than industry standards. The company is performing good and meeting industry standards in terms of cost of goods sold and sales volume. The net income margin decreased to 0.7% in 2003 a decrease of 0.3% compared to 2002.