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A Further Look at Financial Statements


 CHAPTER PREVIEW 


If you are thinking of purchasing Best Buy stock, or any stock, how can you decide what the shares are worth? If you manage Columbia Sportswear's credit department, how should you determine whether to extend credit to a new customer? If you are a financial executive at Google, how do you decide whether your company is generating adequate cash to expand operations without borrowing? Your decision in each of these situations will be influenced by a variety of considerations. One of them should be your careful analysis of a company's financial statements. The reason: Financial statements offer relevant and reliable information, which will help you in your decision‐making.


In this chapter, we take a closer look at the balance sheet and introduce some useful ways for evaluating the information provided by the financial statements. We also examine the financial reporting concepts underlying the financial statements. We begin by introducing the classified balance sheet.


Just Fooling Around?


Few people could have predicted how dramatically the Internet would change the investment world. One of the most interesting results is how it has changed the way ordinary people invest their savings. More and more people are striking out on their own, making their own investment decisions.


Two early pioneers in providing investment information to the masses were Tom and David Gardner, brothers who created an online investor website called The Motley Fool. The name comes from Shakespeare's As You Like It. The fool in Shakespeare's play was the only one who could speak unpleasant truths to kings and queens without being killed. Tom and David view themselves as 21st‐century “fools,” revealing the “truths” of the stock market to the small investor, who they feel has been taken advantage of by Wall Street insiders. The Motley Fool's online bulletin board enables investors to exchange information and insights about companies.


Critics of these bulletin boards contend that they are simply high‐tech rumor mills that cause investors to bid up stock prices to unreasonable levels. For example, the stock of PairGain Technologies jumped 32% in a single day as a result of a bogus takeover rumor on an investment bulletin board. Some observers are concerned that small investors—ironically, the very people the Gardner brothers are trying to help—will be hurt the most by misinformation and intentional scams.


To show how these bulletin boards work, suppose that you had $10,000 to invest. You were considering Best Buy Company, the largest seller of electronics equipment in the United States. You scanned the Internet investment bulletin boards and found messages posted by two different investors. Here are excerpts from actual postings:


TMPVenus: “Where are the prospects for positive movement for this company? Poor margins, poor management, astronomical P/E!”


broachman: “I believe that this is a LONG TERM winner, and presently at a good price.”


One says sell, and one says buy. Whom should you believe? If you had taken “broachman's” advice and purchased the stock, the $10,000 you invested would have been worth over $300,000 five years later. Best Buy was one of America's best‐performing stocks during that period of time.


Rather than getting swept away by rumors, investors must sort out the good information from the bad. One thing is certain—as information services such as The Motley Fool increase in number, gathering information will become even easier. Evaluating it will be the harder task.


LEARNING OBJECTIVE 1


Identify the sections of a classified balance sheet.


In Chapter 1, you learned that a balance sheet presents a snapshot of a company's financial position at a point in time. It lists individual asset, liability, and stockholders' equity items. However, to improve users' understanding of a company's financial position, companies often use a classified balance sheet instead. A classified balance sheet groups together similar assets and similar liabilities, using a number of standard classifications and sections. This is useful because items within a group have similar economic characteristics. A classified balance sheet generally contains the standard classifications listed in Illustration 2-1.


Assets


  


Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity


Current assets


  


      Current liabilities


Long-term investments


  


      Long-term liabilities


Property, plant, and equipment


  


      Stockholders' equity


Intangible assets


  




ILLUSTRATION 2-1 Standard balance sheet classifications


These groupings help financial statement readers determine such things as (1) whether the company has enough assets to pay its debts as they come due, and (2) the claims of short‐ and long‐term creditors on the company's total assets. Many of these groupings can be seen in the balance sheet of Franklin Corporation shown in Illustration 2-2. In the sections that follow, we explain each of these groupings.


FRANKLIN CORPORATION


Balance Sheet


October 31, 2017


Assets


Current assets


 Cash


$ 6,600


 Debt investments


2,000


 Accounts receivable


7,000


 Notes receivable


1,000


 Inventory


3,000


 Supplies


2,100


 Prepaid insurance


    400


  Total current assets


$22,100


Long-term investments


 Stock investments


5,200


 Investment in real estate


  2,000


7,200


Property, plant, and equipment


 Land


10,000


 Equipment


$24,000


 Less: Accumulated depreciation—equipment


  5,000


  19,000


29,000


Intangible assets


 Patents


  3,100


Total assets


$61,400


Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity


Current liabilities


 Notes payable


$11,000


 Accounts payable


2,100


 Unearned sales revenue


900


 Salaries and wages payable


1,600


 Interest payable


    450


  Total current liabilities


$16,050


Long-term liabilities


 Mortgage payable


10,000


 Notes payable


   1,300


  Total long-term liabilities


 11,300


      Total liabilities


27,350


Stockholders' equity


 Common stock


14,000


 Retained earnings


 20,050


      Total stockholders' equity


 34,050


Total liabilities and stockholders' equity


$61,400


ILLUSTRATION 2-2 Classified balance sheet


▼ HELPFUL HINT


Recall that the accounting equation is Assets=Liabilities+Stockholders' EquityRecall that the accounting equation is Assets=Liabilities+Stockholders' Equity.


CURRENT ASSETS


Current assets are assets that a company expects to convert to cash or use up within one year or its operating cycle, whichever is longer. In Illustration 2-2, Franklin Corporation had current assets of $22,100. For most businesses, the cutoff for classification as current assets is one year from the balance sheet date. For example, accounts receivable are current assets because the company will collect them and convert them to cash within one year. Supplies is a current asset because the company expects to use the supplies in operations within one year.


Some companies use a period longer than one year to classify assets and liabilities as current because they have an operating cycle longer than one year. The operating cycle of a company is the average time required to go from cash to cash in producing revenue—to purchase inventory, sell it on account, and then collect cash from customers. For most businesses, this cycle takes less than a year, so they use a one‐year cutoff. But for some businesses, such as vineyards or airplane manufacturers, this period may be longer than a year. Except where noted, we will assume that companies use one year to determine whether an asset or liability is current or long‐term.


Common types of current assets are (1) cash, (2) investments (such as short‐term U.S. government securities), (3) receivables (accounts receivable, notes receivable, and interest receivable), (4) inventories, and (5) prepaid expenses (insurance and supplies). Companies list current assets in the order in which they expect to convert them into cash. Follow this rule when doing your homework.


Illustration 2-3 presents the current assets of Southwest Airlines Co. in a recent year.


SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.


Balance Sheet (partial)


(in millions)


Current assets


 Cash and cash equivalents


$1,355


 Short-term investments


1,797


 Accounts receivable


419


 Inventories


467


 Prepaid expenses and other current assets


   418


  Total current assets


$4,456


ILLUSTRATION 2-3 Current assets section


As explained later in the chapter, a company's current assets are important in assessing its short‐term debt‐paying ability.


LONG‐TERM INVESTMENTS


Long‐term investments are generally (1) investments in stocks and bonds of other corporations that are held for more than one year, (2) long‐term assets such as land or buildings that a company is not currently using in its operating activities, and (3) long‐term notes receivable. In Illustration 2-2, Franklin Corporation reported total long‐term investments of $7,200 on its balance sheet.


Google Inc. reported long‐term investments on its balance sheet in a recent year as shown in Illustration 2-4.


GOOGLE INC.


Balance Sheet (partial)


(in millions)


Long-term investments


 Non-marketable equity investments


   


$1,469


ILLUSTRATION 2-4 Long‐term investments section


ALTERNATIVE TERMINOLOGY


Long‐term investments are often referred to simply as investments.


PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT


Property, plant, and equipment are assets with relatively long useful lives that are currently used in operating the business. This category includes land, buildings, equipment, delivery vehicles, and furniture. In Illustration 2-2, Franklin Corporation reported property, plant, and equipment of $29,000.


Depreciation is the allocation of the cost of an asset to a number of years. Companies do this by systematically assigning a portion of an asset's cost as an expense each year (rather than expensing the full purchase price in the year of purchase). The assets that the company depreciates are reported on the balance sheet at cost less accumulated depreciation. The accumulated depreciation account shows the total amount of depreciation that the company has expensed thus far in the asset's life. In Illustration 2-2, Franklin Corporation reported accumulated depreciation of $5,000.

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