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Financial Health Checkup for Water Utilities A new Excel®-based tool by the EFC-UNC
January 27, 2016
Shadi Eskaf Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Government [email protected]
http://efc.sog.unc.edu
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Leave the webinar…
• knowing how to translate data in your
financial statements to indicators that assess
the overall financial health of your utility fund
• familiar with the Financial Health Checkup for
Water Utilities tool and how to use it
• able to interpret the indicator values to
determine the strengths and weaknesses of
the utility fund
Objectives
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Can You Sleep at Night? Is your system self sufficient?
Are you able to cover your debt service after
paying for your day to day operations?
If your customers stop paying their bills, how
long can you maintain operations?
Can your system meet its short term
obligations?
How much of your system’s expected life has
already run out?
Operating Ratio
Debt Service
Coverage Ratio
Days Cash on
Hand
Current
Ratio
Asset
Depreciation
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Whiteboard Video:
Financial Benchmarking for Water Utilities
http://www.waterrf.org/Pages/Projects.aspx?PID=4366
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Recording of Prior Webinar:
Key Financial Indicators
http://efcnetwork.org/events/webinar-is-your-water-system-financially-healthy-key-financial-indicators/
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Quick Review of Key Financial Indicators
Operating Ratio
Debt Service
Coverage Ratio
Current Ratio
Days of Cash
on Hand
Asset Depreciation
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Is your system self-sufficient?
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Read more: http://efc.web.unc.edu/2015/02/27/operating-ratio/
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Are you able to cover your debt
service after paying for your day
to day operations?
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Read more: http://efc.web.unc.edu/2015/04/23/debt-service-coverage-ratio/
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Can your system meet its short
term obligations?
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Read more: http://efc.web.unc.edu/2015/10/01/key-indicator-current-ratio/
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If your customers stop paying
their bills, how long can you
maintain operations?
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Read more: http://efc.web.unc.edu/2015/06/24/days-cash-on-hand/
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How much of your system’s
expected life has already run out?
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Caveat: this indicator is only as accurate as your depreciation schedule, and even then historic pricing is likely to distort the results.
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Where Do We Get Started?
• Local governments: audited financial statements
• Non-governments: balance sheets, shareholder reports, annual reports, etc.
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Financial Health Checkup for Water Utilities http://efc.sog.unc.edu or http://efcnetwork.org
Find the most up-to-date version in Resources / Tools
Excel®- based tool Free to use
Created by the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s School of Government A resource for water systems from the EFCN’s Smart Management for Small Water Systems project
funded under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. E.P.A.
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our website, click on “Enable Editing” at the top
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Demonstration of the tool with examples from small water systems
Interpretation of the results and discussion
Direct link to the tool: http://www.efc.sog.unc.edu/reslib/item/financial-health-checkup-water-utilities
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Thank You
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Contact info.: Shadi Eskaf [email protected] (919) 962-2785 C.E.U.s and evaluation form Additional resources:
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