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Expenses

Short-term costs, often recurring, that are recorded on the income statement

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Expenditures

One time purchases that add long-term value to the company over the years. Recorded on the balance sheet

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Shareholder's equity

the total sum of money invested into a business by the owners of the company

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Share capital

the money put into the business when the shareholders bought newly issued shares

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Reserves

profit owned by the shareholders that has not been repaid yet, also includes retained profit

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Financial Accounting

accounting for the purpose of informing external stakeholders following accounting systems and procedures (regulated by law)

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Management Accounting

accounting for internal purposes using company-internal analyses such as forecasting profits (not regulated by law)

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Three main pillars of accounting

Cash flow statement, the income statement, the balance sheet

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Straight-line depreciation

depreciation by the same amount per period

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Net worth/Equity

Assets - Liabilities

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Financial performance

Increase in value of the company within a specific time period

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Matching principle of accounting

We need to match for each year the monetary value of produced/sold to the value of resources consumed to produce/sell

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Operating cash flow

Generated and lost doing daily businesses, measures internal financing capability

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Cash flow from investing

All to do with assets

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Free cash flow

Cash flow from operations + cash flow from investing

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Cash flow from financing

Includes new equity and long-term borrowing

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Income statement

Provides information on sources of profit

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Can you have an objective number to measure financial performance

No

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Why is income statement important

Allows to assess how the business works and can be improved

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Depreciation on an income statement

allocation of the net cash flow for making the good available to the years when the resource consumption of the taxi occurred

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Income statement's matching principle

the expenses for the good (depreciation) should be allocated proportionally to the generated revenues

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Operating profit

revenues - expenses

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EBIT

Earnings before Interest and Taxes

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Other ways profit can be seen on the income statement

Earnings or Net income

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Two methods of measuring profit on an income statement

Cost of sales and cost of production

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Cost of sales

Profit = monetary value of sold g/s - value of resources consumed

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Cost-of-production method

Profit = monetary value of g/s produced - value of resources consumed

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Balance sheet what does it show

which assets the company owns and who provided the financial capital

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How is balance sheet important

for assessing which assets are used in running the company and for assessing how risky the company is for creditor's

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If profit is not distributed to owners ... on the balance sheet

profit is added to equity in the next opening statement

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Depreciation on a balance sheet

Decline in value

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Balance sheet depreciation logic

A capital good loses more of its value in the early years of use

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Assets on a balance sheet order major groups

Non-curent assets, current assets

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Claims structure on a balance sheet

Equity, liabilities, profit

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Intangibles on a balance sheet

only listed when their value is verifiable

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Claims

Liabilities, where the money for financing the assets comes from

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rule for financial ratios

The capital in the denominator should always correspond to the definition of profit used in the numerator

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Return on investment

profit/invested capital

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Invested capital

capital used to generate the profit

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Value driver system

Using ROI to see the drivers of profit

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Return on Capital employed

EBIT/Capital employed or Operating Profit/Operating Assets

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Return on Equity

Profit/Equity

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Profit Margin

Profit/Revenue

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Liquidity Ratio

Current Assets/Short-term liabilities

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Gearing

Debt(liabilities)/Equity

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Investment decisions

decisions about business transactions with an initial cash outflow in the expectation of higher future cash inflow

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Investment Theory

theory about investigating investment decisions and developing criteria for reasonable decision making

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Financing decisions

decisions about provision of funds needed that start with a cash inflow, followed by a cash outflow (interest and repayment)

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Financial theories

deal with analyses of financing opportunities and structures

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Capital Market Theories

deal with the mechanics of markets for shares and bonds

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Internal rate of return

a discount rate that makes the net present value of all cash flows equal to zero in a discounted cash flow analysis.

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Calculating value of a company balance sheet logic

Use assets - liabilities = equity

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Calculating value of a company investment perspective

Discounting formula

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Calculating value of a company stock market perspective

Through market capitalisation

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Market capitalisation formula

price of a single share x number of shares

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Market capitalisation is a result of

future expectations

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