Corporate Financial Management Notes

In a previous article, “Explaining the Balance Sheet” weYou can find an example P&L account below. The numbers in brackets and parenthesis show how the calculations were made
and explain each item category used in the P&L. The notes are found after the example.

Super Widgets Limited Profit & Loss Account 2009/2010

“Notes” are used in the P&L statement to provide an additional breakdown as to how the individual line figure was calculated.
These “Notes to the Accounts” form part of the published financial accounts of a company. Using the example given above.
Note 1 – Geographical Analysis of Turnover

The Headings Explained
(1) Turnover

“Turnover” is another word for “Sales” and represents the returns made from the supply of products
and services during the reporting period, less VAT and any trade discounts.

(2 – 5) Cost of Sales

This category states the direct costs involved in the selling of products of services. It’s important to
remember to calculate the cost component for products or services that have actually been sold. If there
are any unsold goods left at the end of the reporting period these will be reported in the balance sheet
as “Stock”. For “Superwidgets”, all direct costs like the cost of the widgets (materials) and the wages of
the production staff would be included. Indirect costs like the rent of the warehouse and advertising
spend would not be included.

(6) Gross Profit

Put simply, “Gross Profit” is the amount of turnover less the cost of sales. Gross profit does not account
for indirect expenses, tax, interest or dividends.

(7) Distribution

This heading captures costs that occur during the process of transporting the products or services to
the customer. Some direct selling costs like sales commissions and advertising spend may be included in
here as they are directly related to moving the product or service from the business to the customer.

(11 – 13) Expenses

All expenses not previously captured are entered here. These are “indirect” expenses such like rent,
electricity, insurance, etc, etc necessary to keep the business running. Administrative and Accountancy
charges (like plant and equipment depreciation and bad-debt write-offs) are also included in here.
Depreciation is the amount the piece of plant of machinery has decreased in value over the period, and
special reporting rules exist for its disclosure. You have to disclose the method of depreciation used
(usually the straight line or reducing balance method) and how the figure is arrived at.

Off-balance-sheet land is where death spirals lurk

2002-02-10 12:38:37 by hidethedebt

Enron's crash has shown that very scary liabilities can hide in a set of books.
pay no attention to those liabilities behind the curtain.
That is the message corporate America has sent to investors in recent years as executives have shunted billions of dollars in new and existing financial obligations off their books and into the nether world known as 'off the balance sheet'.
When the stockmarket roared, investors were only too happy to believe that what they didn't know about their company's true financial picture couldn't hurt them. But now, in a crestfallen market reverberating with shock waves from the Enron collapse, shareholders are realising that just because an obligation is absent from a company's balance sheet does not mean that it can't come back to bite them

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