Chapter 2 - Financial background: A Review of Accounting, Financial Statements and Taxes
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Chapter 2 - Financial background: A Review of Accounting, Financial Statements and Taxes
The Nature of Financial Statements
Numerical representations of a firm’s activities for an accounting period– A picture of activities within the firm and
between the firm and the outside– But can be counterintuitive
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Accounts Receivable
Most sales are on creditSeller receives a promise of later payment, rather than immediate cashThe seller records an account receivable as an assetNet income may not = cash flow
Depreciation
Proration of an asset’s cost over its service lifeCan be straight lined or acceleratedCost recorded on the income statement does not = cash spent
The Nature of Financial Statements
Three Financial Statements– Income statement– Balance sheet– Statement of cash flows
Generated from the income statement and balance sheet
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The Accounting System
A firm’s financial books are a collection of records in which money transactions are recorded– Double entry system– Accounting periods and closing the books– Implications– Stocks and flows
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Table 2-1 A Typical Income Statement
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The Income Statement
SalesCost and Expenses– Costs of Goods Sold– Expense– Depreciation
Gross marginEarnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)
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The Income Statement
Earnings Before Tax, and TaxNet IncomeTerminology:– Income = profit = earnings– Profit before tax (PBT)– Profit after tax (PAT)– Earnings before tax (EBT)– Earnings after tax (Net Income)
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Earnings
Earnings– Also called net income– Paid out as dividends or retained in
businessRetained Earnings (RE)– Each year earnings not paid as dividends
become an addition to equity– Retained earnings account is cumulative
earnings not paid out as dividends
The Balance Sheet
Lists everything a company owns and owes at a moment in time– All sources and uses of money must be
equalA firm’s money sources include creditors and owners– Borrowing creates a liability for repayment
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The Balance Sheet
Two equal sidesAssets = liabilities + equity
Assets and liabilities are arranged in order of decreasing liquidityLiquidity – ease with which an asset becomes
or a liability requires cash
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Table 2-2 A Conventional Balance Sheet Format
Assets
CashChecking balances plus currencyMarketable securities are liquid investments held instead of cash– Short-term, modest
return, low risk
Accounts ReceivableUncollected credit sales– Bad Debt Reserve:
some credit sales will never be paid
– Write Off: Remove bad debt from gross and reserve leaving net unchanged
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Concept Connection Example 2-1 Writing Off a Large Uncollectable Receivable
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Gross accounts receivable $5,650Bad-debt reserve (290)Net accounts receivable $5,360
Need to Write Off $435,000Reserve 290,000Expense $145,000Reestablish Reserve (5%) 260,750Profit Reduction $405,750
Assets
Inventory - product held for sale in the normal course of business– Work-In-Process Inventories (WIP)
Value added as inventory moves through production– The Inventory Reserve
Some inventory is unusable - balances reported net of reserve
– Writing Off Bad InventoryMissing, damaged, or obsolete items removed from gross and reserve leaving net unchanged
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Assets
Overstatements– If assets are overstated, firm’s value is less than
total shown on balance sheetCurrent Assets– Become cash within a year– Include cash, accounts receivable and inventory
Fixed Assets– Long lived, depreciable, also called property, plant
and equipment (PPE)– Useful life of at least a year
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Assets
Depreciation– Spreads asset’s cost over its estimated
useful life
Financial Statement Representation– Appears as an expense or cost– Accumulated depreciation appears on
balance sheet reflecting a wearing out of the asset
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Table 2-3 Fixed Asset Depreciation
Assets
Disposing of a Used AssetThe Life EstimateTax Depreciation and Tax Books– Government allows different depreciation
schedules for tax purposes and financial reporting purposes
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Concept Connection Example 2-2 Selling a Fixed Asset
Accounting Cash Flow
Revenue $4,000 $4,000Cost (NBV) 2,500Profit contribution: EBT $1,500Tax (30%) (450) (450)Contribution: net income $1,050Cash flow $3,550
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Liabilities
What a company owes to outsiders
Accounts Payable– Arise when a firm buys from vendors on credit
Terms of Sale– Specify when payment is due on credit sales
and the early payment discountUnderstated Payables
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Liabilities
Accruals– Recognize expenses and liabilities
associated with incomplete transactions Payroll Accrual
Current Liabilities– Require cash within one year– Payable and accruals are classified as
current
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Figure 2-1 A Payroll Accrual
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Working Capital
Total current assets = gross working capital
Net Working Capital = Current Assets ─ Current Liabilities
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Long Term Liabilities
Long Term Debt– The most significant non-current liability– Leverage
A business partially financed with debt is leveraged
Fixed Financial Charges– Interest must be paid regardless of
profitability
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Concept Connection Example 2-3 Leverage
A business is financed with equity of $100,000Net Income = $15,000 Return on equity = 15% ($15,000/$100,000)Calculate return on equity if $50,000 borrowed at an after tax interest rate of 10%
Concept Connection Example 2-3Leverage
Borrowing levers return on equity up from 15% to 20%.
Equity
Common StockPreferred Stock– Has mix of characteristics of both debt and equity
Retained Earnings– All previous earnings not paid out as dividends
Capital– The sum of long-term debt and equity
Total Liabilities and Equity– Sum of the right-hand side of the balance sheet– Must equal total assets
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Equity Accounts Illustration Three Separate Accounts
Direct Investment by owners paying for stock Par value and paid in excess accounts Retained Earnings
Illustration: 20,000 shares of $2 par sold for $8 Firm Earns $70,000
Pays dividends of $15,000 Common Stock ($2 x 20,000) $ 40,000 Paid in Excess ($6 x 20,000) 120,000 Retained Earnings ($70,000 - $15,000) 55,000 Total Equity $215,000
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Net Income and Retained Earnings
Beginning Equity + Net Income
– Dividends + New Stock Sold = Ending Equity
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The Tax Environment
Taxing Authorities and Tax BasesIncome taxWealth taxConsumption tax
Sales tax
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Income Taxes—The Total Effective Tax Rate (TETR)
Total effective tax rate (TETR) is the combined state and federal rate– State tax is deductible from income when
calculating federal tax
TETR = Tf + Ts (1 – Tf)whereTf = federal tax rateTs = state tax rate
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Progressive Tax Systems, Marginal and Average Rates
Progressive tax systemBracketsMarginal and average tax rates
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Capital Gains and Losses
Two major types of income
– Ordinary income
– Capital gains or loss and dividends
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The Tax Treatment of Capital Gains and Losses
Capital gains historically taxed at lower ratesHolding period must be > 1 year for favorable tax treatment
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Income Tax Calculations
Income taxes are paid by households and corporations according to the same basic principles– Tax is levied on a base of taxable income
But rate schedules for corporations and households are very different as are the rules for calculating taxable income
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Table 2-4 Personal Tax Schedules - 2012
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Personal Taxes
Taxable Income– Wages, profits, interest and dividends are
basic taxable income– Deductions are personal expenditures that
can be subtracted from income before calculating taxes
– Exemptions are fixed amounts per person that can be subtracted from income to arrive at taxable income
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Concept Connection Example 2-4 Calculating Personal Taxes
The Harris family had the following income in 2012:
Salaries: Joe $55,000 Sue 52,000 Interest on savings acct 2,000 Interest on IBM bonds 800 Interest on Boston Bonds 1,200 Dividends - Gen Motors 600
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Concept Connection Example 2-4 Calculating Personal Taxes
In 2012 the Harris family:
Sold property for $50,000, paid $53,000 years earlier Sold stock for $14,000, paid $12,000 years earlier. Paid $12,000 interest on home mortgage Paid $1,800 in real estate taxes. Had $3,500 withheld from pay for state income tax Contributed $1,200 to charity. Have two children Exemption rate is $3,800 per person. Calculate taxable income and tax liability.What are marginal and average tax rates?
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Concept Connection Example 2-4 Calculating Personal Taxes
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Ordinary income: Deductions: Salaries $107,000 Mortgage interest $12,000 Interest 2,800 Taxes
5,300 $109,800 Charity 1,200
$18,500
Net capital gain or loss: Loss on property ($3,000) Exemptions:
Gain on stock 2,000 $3,800 x 4 = $15,200Net capital loss ($1,000)
Total Income $108,800 Taxable Income $75,100
(excludes dividends)
Concept Connection Example 2-4 Calculating Personal Taxes
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Use the married filing jointly schedule as follows:
10% of the entire first bracket $17,400 x .10 = $1,74015% of the amount in the
second bracket ($70,700- $17,400) x .15 = 7,99525% of the amount in the
third bracket ($75,100 - $70,700) x .25 = 1,000 Tax Liability $10,835
Tax on dividends $600 x .15 = 90 Total tax liability $10,925
Average tax rate: $10,925/$75,700 = 14.4%Marginal tax rate = bracket rate = 25%
(15% if dividends or capital gains)
Personal Taxes
Tax Rates and Investment Decisions– Comparing municipal (muni) and corporate
bondsInterest on muni’s not subject to federal taxesAt same rate muni’s return is higher after taxesIf the rates differ, restate corporate to an after tax yield
Multiply by one minus investor’s marginal tax rate
(1 – marginal tax rate)
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Concept Connection Example 2-5 Comparing Taxable and Tax Exempt Returns
The Harris family (25% bracket) has a choice between an IBM bond paying 11% and a Boston bond paying 9%.
Solution: IBM after tax = 11% x (1 - .25) = 8.25% < Boston = 9% Therefore prefer the Boston bond if risks are similar.
If marginal tax rate is 15% 11% x (1 - .15) = 9.35% then prefer IBM
High bracket taxpayers tend to be more interested in tax exempt bonds than those with lower incomes.
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Corporate Taxes
Similar in principle to personal taxes: total income is revenue
Earnings Before Tax (EBT) is taxable income
Corporate tax rates do not consistently rise as taxable income rises
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Table 2-5 Corporate Income Tax Schedule
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The rate increases from 34% to 39% and 35% to 38% recover the benefit of lower rates on earlier income. So a corporation earning more than $18,333,333 pays 35% on all of its income from the first dollar.
Concept Connection Example 2-6 Corporate Income Taxes
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Calculate the tax liability for corporations with the following EBTs:a. $280,000b. $500,000c. $16,000,000d. $23,000,000
SOLUTION:a. Applying the corporate tax table to $280,000 yields the following:
$ 50,000 × .15 = $ 7,500$ 25,000 × .25 = 6,250$ 25,000 × 34 = 8,500$180,000 × .39 = $ 70,200
$ 92,450
b. Between $335,000 and $10 million the overall tax rate is 34% so the tax on $500,000 is
$500,000 × 34 = $170; 000
Concept Connection Example 2-6 Corporate Income Taxes
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c. We don’t have to go through the calculations in the bottom brackets because we know that the system recovers those benefits to an overall 34% up to $10 million.
$10,000,000 × .34 = $3,400,000$ 5,000,000 × .35 = $1,750,000$ 1,000,000 × .38 = $ 380,000 $5,530,000
d. Over $18,333,333, the tax is a flat 35% of all income starting from nothing, so the tax on $23,000,000 is
$23,000,000 × .35 = $8,050,000
Corporate Taxes
Taxes and Financing– The tax system favors debt financing– Result: A debt-financed firm pays less tax
than an identical equity financed company – But the availability of debt is limited because
it makes the borrowing company risky
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Corporate Taxes
Corporate Taxes
Dividends Paid to Corporations– Dividends paid to another corporation are
partially tax exempt
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Figure 2-2 Multiple Taxation
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Figure 2-3 Tax Loss Carry Back and Forward
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