ACC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cash Flow, Financial Statement, Income Statement

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ACC 100- Chapter 10
Financial Statement Analysis
What is needed to preform and analysis?
-Comparative financial statements are required for the business. Note that the word
"comparative" means that the business is providing both the current year's statements as well
as the prior year's statements
Horizontal Analysis
- calculates the trend between one year and the next (comparative analysis)
- ex. comparing inventory balances over time allows a business to see if its inventory
levels are increasing, decreasing, or similar to the prior year
- main goal is to identify important trends over time
Trend Analysis- looks and compares all the trends in one year to a base year
- ex. compares 2012, 2011, 2010 all to 2009
- could be a really good year
Comparative Analysis
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Vertical Analysis
- shows the relationship between different items on the same financial statement
- ex. you might calculate current assets as a percentage of total assets for the balance
sheet
- also called common size statement
- balance sheet- % of total assets, Income Statement- % of net sales (sales rev)
Bleaue Inc.
Cooper
Inc.
Current Assets
82,000,000
546,000
Total Assets
192,000,000
982,000
Percentage
43%
56%
Analyzing Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Step 1: Look and see if the operating cash flows are increasing or decreasing, this is the only
sustainable long term cash inflow so it should be increasing
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