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Maximizing Year-End Reporting: Importance of Balance Sheets and Inventories

Learn the significance of year-end reporting through balance sheets and inventories. Explore solvency, liquidity, risk-bearing capacity, collateral, business trends, inventory timing, asset types, income statements, and essential uses.

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Maximizing Year-End Reporting: Importance of Balance Sheets and Inventories

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  1. Importance of Year End Reporting

  2. Balance Sheets • Five Areas Addressed by a Balance Sheet 1. Solvency – do assets exceed liabilities 2. Liquidity – ability to meet financial obligations 3. Risk-Bearing Capacity – how much loss could the business sustain? 4. Collateral Identification – what assets are available to help in securing a loan? 5. Business Trends – evaluating records over multiple years for comparison purposes

  3. Inventories • When to Inventory? • January 1st & December 31st • What to Inventory? • Current Assets • Items with useful life less than a year • Non-Current Assets • Items with useful life over a year

  4. Income Statements • Five Primary Uses 1. Summarize revenues and expenses 2. Determine profit or loss 3. Calculating profitability & financial efficiency 4. Determining repayment capacity 5. Loan applications & refinancing

  5. Any Questions?

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