cash position is a better indicator of future performance than accounting profit?
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In some ways, yes, beause it shows the speed at which your market is turning in cash rather than disbursing it in real time, at the very least, daily.  Your accounting profit is a rather static measure of your performance for the accounting period covered.
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It will run as poorly as it does now or worse, maybe even better.  Knowledge declared on the portfolio means less then you think.  There are many other factors to concern yourself with when measuring a man.
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It helps... but I guess as long as you can add positive numbers (your profit) and negative numbers (your losses), you should be able to know at the end of your first day whether you're making money or losing your shirt.
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financial ratios is meaningless if u r not comparing with the peers or the industry.\nsome, lessay current ratio, the higher means the company is vy highly liquid. but if the whole industry is vy low yet company ABC is the only company which its current ratio is high, then u need to find out y.. is it because they liquidate something assets...etc watever reasons. It may also means that ABC hasn't fully utilised its assets.\nIn short, a figure alone doesn't give much answer to u. to judge if a company is efficient or not, u need to look at the whole industry & its peers. There u will get a broader picture of that company.
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As Mark Twain stated: Predicting is a difficult task; specially when you predict future.\nObviously there is no such thing as a 100% reliable source.\nHowever, you can find relations, trends, etc. that can help you to take better-informed bets, but they will still be bets.\nYou can consider such things as P/E, cost structure stability, sales and/or/ net income growth, etc.\nAnd don't expect a 100% result. (if you achieve it , launch a fund)
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The Dow will have more volatility since it is only comprised of 30 stocks.  Typically, the S&P 500 is viewed as a better measure of large cap performance, as it is comprised of the largest 500 public companies.  If you want a measure for companies of all sizes, I would recommend the Russell 3000 or the Wilshire 5000.
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The satement of financial position is the same as the balance sheet. In it, you list your assets, liabilities and equity with their corresponding values.  Ask your accountant for specifics.
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Internal Rate of Return takes into account the time value of money, and therefore, goes some way to address the opportunity cost of the investment.\n\nIRR is generally used when ROI is the main indicator of the board (no, it is not a definitive causal link). \n\nIRR is not inherently superior to other discounted cash flow techniques, it is however, one that cna simply be explained to a board of directors.\n\nThat aside, a Financial Accountant may well use IRR to evaluate projects in combination with some sensitivity analysis of the WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) as variations in WACC can take a borderline project/investment and turn it into a losing one.
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I agree with vamsy, however I do both so much it is hard to choose whick is best, however when you think of the profit range, I think Google.   because the stock market talks about it alot and it made alot of people that work for them very rich within the last year. ( those that invested in the stocks that is. ) Oh My, I can't believe I overlooked that one!!!! eewwwww!
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Vector Vest does do very good analysis. However I've found that although they are usually correct when it comes to what they say about a company; in the real day to day trading world it doesn't necessarily equate to a profit.
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Some money managing institutions(like banks)have profits only on books,but not convertible to liquid cash for customers.For example a bank Lends U S $5000k but as a security for the loan keeps immovable property worth  U S $6000K, but not available for immediate liquidity.Thus the bank has a profit of   U S $1000K that is of no use but technically is having a profit.Such assets are also called NON PERFORMING ASSETS.
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Stock dividends would not impact cash or liabilities.  I imagine it would just increase paid in capital and decrease retained earnings.  Just rearranging things.\n\nCash dividends are different, but you didn't ask about that.  Are you sure you're not referring to these?  Because cash dividends would decrease cash and retained earnings.\n\nIf you really have to pick just one, the question is wrong.  Go with decrease cash because there might some filing fees involved or something garbage like that.  Liabilities would be unchanged.\n\nThey really aren't related.  If you can "write-in" no change, do that.  If it's a multiple choice thing, just pick one at random.  It's pretty much a toss-up.  Maybe decrease cash as mentioned above and decrease liabilities.  No real idea.
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Profit/Loss?  see below
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Ratio analysis is not the best methodology for determining financial status.  The best approach is creating a cash flow model that will forecast the future cash flows of the organization.  Then discount the cash flows back to account for time and add the current cash in the organization.  This will give you the total net worth of the organization.  Divide this number by the total shares outstanding and this will give you an estimation of what the stock should be selling.  Compare this estimation to what the actual stock price is selling and you would get a good idea of a stock price is over priced or not.\n\nOr simply look at Moody's or S&P's credit rating for the company.  I believe both of the services have GM listed as junk.
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In risky investments, the earlier positive cash flow should be weighted more.  But in a NPV calculation, as long as NPVs are the same between two investments, they are considered equal.  One investment might promise some small inflow in the beginning years, another investment might promise a lump sum payout at the end of the entire duration.
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If there is increase in net income it will increase assets in balance sheet becouse the profit will transform in assets and if decrease in profit it may go from capital side.
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Yes! VAT has nothing to do with profit, if you don't register at the correct value of turnover then you are committing an offence, so register and claim it back, you can't make profit from VAT.\nBut if adjusts your figures then reinvest in the organisation and lose the money into a new piece of kit or to benefit the organisation.