Analyzing Financial Statements Exercise
Analyzing Financial Statements Exercise
Use this sample Income Statement and Balance Sheet to answer the questions below. You can either do the
calculations manually or use the excel file from the digital toolkit. Do your best in 30 minutes, and feel free to work
with classmates via WhatsApp.
Income Statement
Operating Expenses
Balance Sheet
Assets
Current Assets
Long-Term Assets
Equipment 2,000,000.00 2,000,000.00 7,200,000.00
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Equity
Question 1:
By what percentage did sales go up from year 1 to year 2?
Question 5:
What ratio could best measure liquidity and what is the ratio for Years 1 and 3?
Current Ratio
CR=CA/CL
3,000,000 300,000
Year1: 3.0725
Year 3: 1.327
Question 6:
What ratio can be used to measure leverage and what was it for Years 2 and 3?
Debt ratio
DR = (short term debt+long term debt)/total assets
Bank
144,680.00 3,376,700.00 5,443,585.50
Overdraft
Loan from
3,000,000.00 300,000.00
friend
Long
Term
Liabilities
Loan from
friend
Bank loan 8,500,000.00
Year 2: 0.254475073
Year 3: 0.250296347
I have learnt that account payable does not factor in debt definition.
Question 7:
What was the inventory turnover ratio for Years 2 and 3? The average in milk processing is 23 and the average in
yogurt, butter, cheese, etc. is 13.
Year 2: 8.94444444
Year 3: 10.12863311
Question 8
Using the information, you just discovered in this analysis along with anything else you see, what is your overall
assessment of the financials of this company?
The company has a low risk in debt ratio hence below 0.7 meaning have less risks of failing to service their loans
abligation.