Financial Analysis
EquityNet can perform a comprehensive financial analysis of a business. Depending on maturity of the business and scope of financial analysis desired by the client, a financial analysis can include some or all of the following factors:
Analysis of Historical Factors
- Gross and component revenues
- Gross margin of component revenues
- Segmented operating costs relative to revenue
- Operating profit margin
- Component cash flows, including capital expenditures
- Free cash flow or burn
- Inventory turnover
- Working capital, receivables, and payables turnover
- Fixed asset, total, cash cycle, and operating cash turnover
- Quick ratio
- Cash flow from operations ratio
- Days to capital depletion (after proposed funding)
- Debt to total capital, assets, and total revenue
- Fixed charge coverage ratio
- Return on assets, total capital, and equity
- Prior capitalization and sources
- Accounts receivable
- Gross revenue per employee (trend)
- Policy on revenue recognition and sales return
- Policy on inventory valuation and credit
- Policy on audit expenses, AR reserves, inventory reserves, other reserves
- Capitalization of any expenses
- Deferred and accrued revenues and expenses
Analysis of Projected Factors
- Unit sales volume
- Gross and component revenues
- Gross margin of component revenues
- Average unit selling price
- Segmented operating costs relative to revenue
- Operating profit margin
- Free cash flow or burn
- Capital expenditures / product development costs
- Backlog / sales pipeline
- Operational capitalization
- Use of capital to be raised
- Comparison of capitalization and free cash flow projections
- Identification of possible insufficient capitalization
Analysis of Property, Plant, and Equipment
- Complete schedule of all fixed assets, including property, plant, and equipment
- Summary description of all real estate owned or leased by the business
- Schedule of all leases related to property, plant, and equipment
- Explanation of the business’s depreciation policy
- Options or agreements on or for any real property