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Margins and Turnover
12.8%
9%
Boston Chicken, 1996
Fiscal Years Ended
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Net income……………………………………………… $ 16,173 $ 33,559 $ 66,958
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Net cash provided by operating activities………….. 35,918 55,476 144,910
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Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
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Net cash used in investing activities……………… (263,239) (321,855) (525,026)
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average noncash Net Operating Assets = $930,534k, so
Would Operating Accruals have
identified Boston Chicken’s distortion?
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Accruals
total accruals = accounting income –cash income
= NI – (net dividends + Dcash)
= DCE –Dcash
= (DAssets –Dcash) –DLiabilities
total accruals = DNoncash Net Operating Assets
+ DNet Financial Assets
(i.e. mkt securities less debt)
total accruals = DNon–Cash Working Capital
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Future Stock Returns and
Accrual Decomposition
Richardson, Sloan, Soliman, Tuna (2002)
How big is a big accrual?
Accrual
50th percentile
75th percentile
90th percentile
Current Operating
Accruals/non-cash NOA
.01
.05
.11
Non-Current Operating
Accruals/non-cash NOA
.02
.06
.14
Total Accruals/non-cash NOA
.08
.20
.38
Interaction
.00
.02
.07
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why are net operating assets growing?
which cause of NOA growth is best? which is the worst?
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Richardson, Sloan, Soliman, Tuna (2002)