CheckPoint: Ratio, Vertical and Horizontal Analysis The calculations you perform for this CheckPoint form the basis of your analysis of your capstone project. • Write an essay in 250 to 300 words an explanation of the three tools of financial statement analysis and the function of each.
• Examine PepsiCo, Inc.’s Consolidated Balance Sheet on p. A6 in Appendix A of Financial Accounting, especially its Current Assets, Current Liabilities, and Total Assets for years 2005 and 2004.
• Calculate the following for PepsiCo, Inc. and show your work:
o The Current Ratio for 2005 o The Current Ratio for 2004 o Two measures of vertical analysis—for example, compute the current assets
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Vertical (or common-size) analysis is targeted on evaluating financial statements with assigning certain percent from the base amount to each item of financial statement, and it is usually used for inter- and intra- company needs. This analysis provides comparative volume of each item of financial statement. For example, current liability can be 2.5% of the total liability, and liability can be 60% of the total liabilities and stockholder’s equity. If applied to separate years, it can also show percentage change for each item. Certain positive factor of this analysis is that large and small companies can be fairly compared together.
Ratio analysis shows the correlation within certain figures of financial statements, like current assets and current liability, and is used for three types of company needs- within, intra- and inter-company. Association can be shown in proportion, rate, or percentage and can evaluate company’s liquidity, profitability, and solvency. Liquidity ratios show company’s ability to pay obligations and fulfill needs for cash; profitability ratios show wellbeing and success for the certain time period; and solvency ratios show company’s endurance over the years.
Calculate the following for PepsiCo, Inc. and show your work:
The Current Ratio for 2005
Current assets of $10,454 divided by current liabilities $9,406 equals to 1.11 (rounded); so Current Ratio would
1. What is the purpose of financial statement analysis? The purpose of financial statement analysis is to provide information used by the business, potential creditors and investors.
Financial ratio analysis is a valuable tool that allows one to assess the success, potential failure or future prospects of the company (Bazley 2012). The ratios are helpful in spotting useful trends that can indicate the warning signs of
1. Using the current ratio, discuss what conclusions you can make about each company’s ability to pay current liabilities (debt).
Abstract : Analysis of financial statement of a company is an important because it is useful to obtain Information
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The paper illustrates that financial ratio analysis is an important tool for firm’s to evaluate their financial health in order to identify areas of weakness so as to institute corrective measures.
EVA stands for economic value added. EVA is a value based financial performance measure based
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1. Discuss methods (Accounting Policies) your chosen company uses to account for its various items of assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity:
The calculation of ratios is the calculation technique for analyzing a company’s financial performance that divides or standardize one accounting measure by another economically relevant measure. Financial ratios can be used as a tool to demonstrate financial statement users for making valid comparisons of firm operating performance, over time for the same firm and between comparable companies. External investors are mostly interested in gaining insights about a firm’s profitability, asset management, liquidity, and solvency.
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The relationship can be expressed in percentage , fractions and proportion of numbers. The various classifications of ratios are follows.