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Cash flow forecasting /

Budgets are like road maps -- they provide a direction for a corporates financial management. Balance sheets and statements of revenues also provide insights into how well a company is following that direction. But cash flow and cash flow forecasts are what guide the day-to-day itinerary for an orga...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fight, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006.
Colección:Essential capital markets.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Overview of cash flow forecasting
  • Introduction
  • What is a healthy cash flow?
  • What are the uses of cash flow forecasting?
  • 2 Summary of financial statements
  • Introduction
  • The annual report and accounts
  • Statements of standard accounting practice, and financial reporting standards
  • The auditors' report
  • The balance sheet
  • Assets and liabilities
  • Debtors
  • Creditors
  • Stock and work in progress
  • Borrowing as shown in a company's accounts
  • Fixed assets
  • Authorized and issued share capital
  • Reserves
  • The profit and loss account
  • Turnover
  • Problems with financial statements and auditors
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Factors impacting financial performance
  • Introduction
  • Strategic analysis
  • the external environment
  • Environmental analysis
  • PEST analysis
  • Competitive analysis
  • Strategic analysis
  • the value chain
  • Value chain competition example
  • Management
  • Profitability and performance
  • Return on equity
  • Net profit margin
  • Reliability of financial information
  • Asset management
  • Asset turnover and liquidity
  • Stock turnover
  • Collection period
  • Payment period
  • Net working assets to sales and overtrading
  • Capital structure
  • Financial leverage
  • Financial flexibility
  • Interest cover
  • Cash flow
  • Cash and profit
  • Operational cash flow
  • Cash flow forecasting
  • Percent-of-sales forecasting
  • Forecasting methodology
  • Sustainable growth
  • Corporate failure
  • Reasons for failure
  • Recent research
  • Failure prediction models
  • 4 Cash flow forecasting of financial statements
  • Why cash flow analysis?
  • Purpose of projections
  • Historical performance and variable input analysis
  • Defining the initial assumptions
  • Procedure for constructing projections
  • Profit and loss statement projections
  • Net sales projections
  • Completing the profit and loss projections
  • Cost of goods sold/gross margin projections
  • Selling, general and administrative expense (SGA)
  • Operating profit
  • Profit before tax
  • Balance sheet projections
  • Assets
  • Fixed assets, capital expenditure and depreciation
  • Inventory turnover
  • Accounts receivable turnover
  • Cash and marketable securities
  • Liabilities
  • Current liabilities
  • Accounts payable
  • Accrued expenses payable
  • Debt runoff schedule + future facility
  • Net worth
  • New money need
  • Amortization schedule for new debt
  • Completed AmaOS forecasted balance sheet
  • Cash flow projections
  • Construction and evaluation of future cash flow model
  • Cash flow ratio analysis
  • Interest cover ratio
  • Financing payments cover ratio
  • Total debt payout
  • Long term debt payout
  • Debt service ratio
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Protection and control in term lending
  • Covenants, events of default, and their relationship to projections
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter self-test
  • Chapter self-test answers
  • 5 Cash flow forecasting of project finance
  • Introduction
  • Details of project and borrower
  • Cash flow forecasting.