Financial Planning and Forecasting
Financial Planning and Forecasting
Financial Planning and Forecasting
finance
Choirunnisa Arifa
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Financial Planning and
Forecasting
Forecasting sales
Projecting the assets and internally generated
funds
Projecting outside funds needed
Deciding how to raise funds
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Strategic Planning
• Mission statement
• A condensed version of a firm’s strategic plan
• Corporate scope
• Defines a firm’s lines of business and geographic area of
operation
• Statement of corporate objectives
• Sets forth specific goals to guide management
• Corporate strategies
• Broad approaches developed for achieving a firm’s goals
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Strategic Planning
• Operating plan
• Provides management with detailed implementation guidance
based on the corporate strategy to help meet the corporate
objectives
• Financial Plan
• The document that includes assumptions, projected financial
statements, and projected ratios and ties the entire planning
process together
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The Sales Forecast
• The Financial Plan begins with a sales forecast, which starts
with a review of sales during the past 5 years
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The AFN Equation
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The AFN Equation
• The AFN equation shows the relationship of external funds needed
by a firm to its projected increase in assets, the spontaneous
increase in liabilities, and its increase in retained earnings
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The AFN Equation
• The capital Intensity Ratio (A0*/S0)
• The ratio of assets required per dollar of sales
• Excess capacity adjustment
• Changes made to the existing asset forecast because
the firm is not operating at full capacity
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The AFN Equation
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Forecasted financial statements
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Forecasted financial statements
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Forecasted financial statements
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Forecasted financial statements
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Using regression to improve
forecasts
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