6. Application Exercise, Vertical Modules
Module 6: Evaluating the financial performance of a business
You work with the same company (see question 5) which asks you to assess its financial performance. After you calculated the cost of capital (answer to question 1 was 8% and you will use this figure and the same parameters of this question for the whole exercise), you have a look at the accounts:
- Sales 200
- EBIT 30
- CE 100
In order to show where profitability comes from, you will calculate the Economic Profit with two different methods and get to the same result.
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
Calculate the ROCE before and after tax (tax rate in previous exercise)
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Divide EBIT by CE and deduct the corporate tax.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
Calculate the Economic Profit in % as the difference between the ROCE after tax and the WACC
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It’s a subtraction!
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
Calculate the Economic Profit in $ as the difference between the EBIT after tax and the financing cost (CE * WACC), then as the multiplication of EP(%) (how much I earn out of each dollar invested) by capital employed (CE) (how many dollars I actually invested): both calculations should end to the same result.
CorrectIncorrectHint
It’s a multiplication!
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
Build the income statement (P&L) from the EBIT: you deduct the interest expense, then corporate taxes. To calculate the interest expense, you get back to the financial structure (debt represents 20% of financial resources) to assess the amount of debt, which you multiply by the interest rate to get the interest expense. After having subtracted corporate tax, you get to the bottom line, net earnings attributable to shareholders.
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Don’t forget to deduct interest expense (debt * interest rate – exercise 5) and tax (one-third of taxable income).
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
Calculate the Economic Profit (EP)
To calculate the EP, you must subtract, from the net earnings attributable to shareholders, the minimum profit they expect out of their investment, which you get multiplying the return they expect (again, module 5!) by the equity they invested (80% of capital employed). You get the same result as in question 3!!!
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EP = EAT (or net earnings) – EQ * E(ROE)