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Entrepreneurship
Chapter 7- Preparing, Analyzing, and Forecasting Financial Statements: Quantifyi
Term | Definition |
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Balance Sheet | -Presents a company's financial position at the end of a specified date. - Snapshot of the company's financial position at a point (a moment or an instant) in time. - see what a company owns as well as what it owes to other parties |
Income Statement | is a key financial statement which reports on a company's profitability during a relatively short period of time such as the past year, month, 13 weeks, etc. The heading of the income statement informs the reader of the period covered |
Cash Flow Statement | reports the cash generated and used during the interval specified in its heading |
Product cost | cost of making the product |
period cost | -selling expenses -general and administrative expenses |
asset = liabilities + equity | basic accounting equation |
assets | are resources that an entity owns in order to derive some future benefits |
liabilities | are one of the claims of external parties from the entity |
equity | reflect the residual claims or net assets of the owners of an entity |
financial statement analysis | is the process of analyzing a company's financial statements for decision-making purposes and to understand the overall health of an organization. |
Horizontal analysis | -Also known as trend analysis -Technique that involves the comparison of a line item (account) over a number of periods -Used for projecting financial statements |
vertical analysis | -Is the preparation of common-size financial statements |
balance sheet analysis | -is presented according to their relative liquidity or convertibility to CASH |
objectives of fund flow statement analysis: | -pinpoints the mobilization and utilization of resources -highlights the financing of the general expansion -exemplifies the utilization of debt finance -portrays the relationship between the financing, investment, liquidity and dividend |
Sales or Net Sales | For the statement of profit/loss, the base amount used is _____ |
Total Asset | For the statement of financial position, the base amount used is ____ |