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Financial Forecasting

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 21 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Assets / Equity (When company is willing to borrow more and increase leverage - it has more cash to support growth)






2. Garbage in - garbage out. A characteristic of financial forecasting - i.e. if our assumptions are dumb - our answers will also be dumb






3. Net Income / Equity OR Net Margin/profitability Asset Turnover/Efficiency Leverage/financing






4. The rate of growth where the firm's big four $$ ratios (DuPont ratios and Payout) remain constant and no equity is required to fund growth. - G* = ROE (1-B) ROE = Net Margin Asset Turnover Leverage B = Payout Ratio 1-B = Plowback Ratio (G* is a fun






5. Method of forecasting that relates everything back to sales






6. Discretionary Financing Need; the amount of additional financing the firm will need to work the assumptions and pro forma financial statements.






7. ROE = Net Margin Asset Turnover Equity Multiplier 1) Net Margin = NI / Sales 2) Asset Turnover = Sales / Asset 3) Equity Multiplier = Assets / Equity






8. NI / Sales






9. Cash Dividends / NI (Informs us how much of net income we pay out in dividends; its flipside is the plowback ratio)






10. Total Assets needed to finance the new sales level






11. Line-item accounts that change automatically as sales increase. These include: Most current assets -Accounts payable -Accruals (e.g. accrued wages) -SOMETIMES fixed assets






12. Future RE = Old RE + Projected Sales X Net Margin X (1 - Payout Ratio)






13. Interest (assumed no change) -Retained Earnings (must be independently forecasted)


14. = 1 - (B - Payout Ratio) (This is the flipside of the payout ratio)






15. Forecasting - future






16. Projected Total Assets - Projected Total Liabilities - Projected Owner's Equity






17. RE = Old RE + Change in RE (NI - Dividends)






18. Sales / Assets (As this goes up - more sales are generated per dollar of assets and the firm requires less investment to increase sales)






19. To understand the possible implications of today's decisions on tomorrow's performance






20. 1) Slow sales growth (e.g. increase price - net margin; decrease assets needed) 2) Examine capacity restraints (e.g. full capacity? outsource?) 3) Lower dividend payout (ratio) 4) Higher net margin (raise price - cut costs)






21. AKA Discretionary Accounts. Line-item accounts that do not automatically change as sales increase; these include: Notes Payable -Long-term liability -Common stock