Cash Flow statement analysis

The subject of this report will be critical analysis of different financial statements of any Australian company with ASX listing. For this purpose, the chosen company is Baby Bunting Group Ltd of Victoria. The company is enlisted in ASX in 2015 with its ASX code BBN and GICS Industry Group – retailing. (ASX, 2018) This report will emphasize on comparison of audited financial report of the company for three years from 2015 to 2017. Main areas of concentration will be cash flow statement, other comprehensive income statement and accounting of corporate income tax with critical analysis of its different heads to highlight significant changes for last three years in those domains. (Bunting, 2016) Cash flow statement will be analyzed with the identification of the reason for such changes. Moreover, a comparative analysis of cash flow statement with its broad category headings like operating activities, investing activities and financing activities will be done with proper evaluation for the specified period. Other comprehensive income statement will be analyzed in respect of its components with their nature and the reason behind those components not being featured in income statement. For corporate income tax, an analysis of tax expense of the company for considered three years as per financial statement with its similarity as per corporate tax rate, discussion on deferred tax treatment as per balance sheet, the amount of tax paid and the amount showed in different financial statements along with other critical aspects of income tax accounting of the company. This report will end up with some obdervations to make this report complete in all aspect.

Cash flow statement analysis of Baby Bunting Group Ltd extracted from the audited financial statement of 2015, 2016 and 2017 is given below:

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
		2017	2016 Save Time On Research and Writing Hire a Pro to Write You a 100% Plagiarism-Free Paper. Get My Paper	2015	variance	variance
	Note	$’000	$’000	$’000	2016>2015	2017>2016
Cash flows from operating activities
Receipts from customers		304,090	258,418	196,899	31.24	17.67
Payments to suppliers and employees		-285,017	-242,851	-188,583	28.78	17.36
Income tax paid		-5,513	-6,213	-2,673	132.44	(11.27)
Interest received		17	20	18	11.11	(15.00)
Finance costs paid		-406	-420	-880	(52.27)	(3.33)
Transaction costs for listing		–	-1,876	–
Net cash from operating activities	23(a)	13,171	7,078	4,781	48.04	86.08
Cash flows from investing activities
Payments for plant and equipment and intangibles	9,10	-7,352	-6,185	-6,047	2.28	18.87
Proceeds on sale of plant and equipment		1	6	25	(76.00)	(83.33)
Net cash used in investing activities		-7,351	-6,179	-6,022	2.61	18.97
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issue of shares	15,19	–	28,717	1,532	1,774.48
Transaction costs for issue of shares		–	-1,754	–
Dividends paid	16	-11,558	-16,117	–		(28.29)
Proceeds from/(Repayment of) borrowings		4,800	-7,950	-100	7,850.00	(160.38)
Net cash (used in)/provided by financing activities		-6,758	2,896	1,432	102.23	(333.36)
Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents		-938	3,795	191	1,886.91	(124.72)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the financial year		7,363	3,568	3,377	5.66	106.36
Cash and cash equivalents at end of the financial year	23(b)	6,425	7,363	3,568	106.36	(12.74)

Observations:

1. Cash flow from operating activities is mainly constituted by items of operations. For this company, operation is retailing business. Hence cash inflows from operating activities are receipts from customers and interest received from deposits. Out of that cash, different operating expenses are paid. The operating expenses are under the heads of payment to supply chain associates and employees, income tax, finance cost and transaction cost for listing. All receipts are maintaining the trend with normal growth in revenue. For payments, also parity remains in payment to suppliers and employees and interest paid for borrowings termed as finance cost. Transaction cost for listing is featured in 2016.
2. Cash flow from investing activities is constituted by procurement and sale of long-term assets including intangibles.
3. Cash flows from financing activities are constituted by items like proceeds from issue of shares, respective transaction costs, payment of dividends and proceeds from borrowings. Out of them, proceeds from share issue and borrowings increase the cash; while payment of dividend and transaction costs for share issue decreases the same.
4. Net impact of this financial information has constituted year-wise net cash flow of the company. Adding this to the opening cash balance, cash and cash equivalent of the company at the end of the year is being derived.  

Given below the comparative analysis of cash flow from operating, investing and finance activities for 2015, 2016 and 2017 with variance:

		2017	2016	2015	variance	variance
	Note	$’000	$’000	$’000	2016>2015	2017>2016
Net cash from operating activities	23(a)	13,171	7,078	4,781	48.04	86.08
Net cash used in investing activities		-7,351	-6,179	-6,022	2.61	18.97
Net cash (used in)/provided by financing activities		-6,758	2,896	1,432	102.23	(333.36)

Evaluation:

• Cash flow from operating activities had shown steady increase with variance of 48% in 2016 in respect of 2015 (Bunting, 2015)and 86% in 2017 in respect of 2016.
• Cash invested in investing activities showed increase with variance of 3% in 2016 compared to 2015 and 19% in 2017 compared to 2016.
• Net cash generated from financing activities showed increase in 2016 in respect of 2015 by 102% while a decrease was observed in 2017 by 333% in 2017 compared to 2016.

The financial reporting of any company normally projects performance of a company through profit or loss and other comprehensive income statement. As per IAS 1, Presentation of Financial Statements profit or loss is defined as the net effect of total income less respective expenses without items of other comprehensive income or OCI. (Coach, 2017) Other comprehensive income is comprised of components of income and allied expenses with the consideration of reclassification adjustments and not identified in profit or loss as per requirement and permission of IFRS. (Tools, 2018) The definition of total comprehensive income is derived as ‘the change in equity during a period resulting from transactions and other events, other than those changes resulting from transactions with owners in their capacity as owners’. (accaglobal, 2016)

Observations

Other comprehensive income is constituted by those gains, revenues, losses and expenses under GAAP (Tools, 2017) and IFRS which are not included in net income featured in the income statement and are treated in income statement after net income. Revenues, gains, expenses and losses feature in OCI with the condition of unrealized status. The example of such happening is sale of any investment. Hence the investments in financial instruments with the tendency to change its value of such instruments, the respective change in gain or losses can be treated under the head of OCI.  These instruments can be realized with respective gains or losses when the same would be sold. Accounting treatment of post-sales of such instruments should come from OCI then to make it part of net income in income statement.  (accountingtools, 2017)

Items normally treated as components of other comprehensive income are:

• Gains or losses due to foreign exchange translation
• Gains or losses from unrealized holding on investments classified as ready for sale
• Gains or losses related to pension plan
• Prior service costs or credits for pension

Normally OCI gives the concept of more comprehensive understanding of the financial status of the business entity although it makes the reader more confused with its complexity to the income statement.

In the case of Baby Bunting Group Ltd financial reports for the financial years 2015 to 2017, nothing has been featured as other comprehensive income and hence there is no scope of discussion related to this subject in this article. Given below the statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income statement of the company for the specified period to justify the claim of non-existence of OCI in Baby Bunting financial report for the period:

Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income
	2017	2016	2015
	$’000	$’000	$’000
Revenue	278,027	236,840	180,175
Cost of sales	-182,735	-155,678	-118,314
Gross profit	95,292	81,162	61,861
Other revenue	17	21	45
Store expenses	-56,762	-48,305	-37,833
Marketing expenses	-4,919	-3,983	-3,054
Warehousing expenses	-3,748	-3,540	-3,316
Administrative expenses	-11,753	-10,895	-8,073
IPO transaction costs expensed	–	-1,876	–
Finance costs	-432	-397	-807
Change in fair value of interest rate swap			205
Profit before tax	17,695	12,187	9,028
Income tax expense	-5,448	-3,853	-2,988
Profit after tax	12,247	8,334	6,040
Other comprehensive income for the year	–	–	–
Total comprehensive income for the year	12,247	8,334	6,040
Profit for the year attributable to:
Equity holders of Baby Bunting Group Limited	12,247	8,334	6,040
Earnings per share
From continuing operations
Basic (cents per share)	9.7	7	6.2
Diluted (cents per share)	9.6	7	6.2

This subject will have different issues to discuss, which are being narrated below point-wise.

1. As per the latest audited financial statements of Baby Bunting group Ltd, given below the tax expenses for 2015, 2016 and 2017 (Bunting, 2017)extracted from profit or loss and comprehensive income statement with variance of corporate income tax payment:

	2017	2016	2015	variance	variance
	$’000	$’000	$’000	2015>2016	2016>2017
Income tax expense	-5,448	-3,853	-2,988	28.95	41.40

The payment status of corporate income of Baby Bunting Group Ltd is given below with the derivation of income tax payable figure:

	2017	2016	2015
	$’000	$’000	$’000
Profit before tax from continuing operations	17,695	12,187	9,028
Income tax expense calculated at 30% (2015-2017:30%)	-5,308	-3,656	-2,708
Non-deductible expenditure	-140	-197	-280
Income tax expense recognized in profit or loss	-5,448	-3,853	-2,988

• It is found that standard rate of corporate income tax payable by Australian corporate bodies on taxable profits under Australian tax law is calculated @ 30% on profit before tax from continuing operation for the period of 2015 to 2017.
• The impact of corporate income tax on non-deductible expenditure from income tax perspective had made changes in the corporate income tax payment for the period. In 2015, it is featured as 280 m$, followed by 197 m$ in 2016 and 140 m$ in 2017 as classified in the segment of income tax on non-deductible expenditure.

In the audited financial statement of Baby Bunting Group Ltd, following figures are derived and certified by auditor for three years under consideration- 2015, 2016 and 2017:

	25-Jun-17	26-Jun-16	28-Jun-15
	$’000	$’000	$’000
Deferred tax assets	3,434	3,361	2,071

Occurrence of deferred tax as asset happens when book profit is less than the taxable profit of any business identity. (tax, 2018) In case of this company, the annual financial report emphasizes deferred tax with its recognition on temporary differences between the carrying amount of liabilities and assets featured in the consolidated financial statement with the respective tax bases used in computing taxable profit. Deferred tax liability is normally recognized for all temporary differences of taxable items, while deferred tax asset is normally recognized for all temporary difference, which is deductible. In case of this company, the components forming deferred tax as asset are given below for three years:

			Recognised
			in other		Reclassified
		Recognised	compreh-	Recognised	from equity
	Opening	in profit	ensive	directly in	to profit	Acquisitions		Closing
	balance	or loss	income	Equity	or loss	/disposals	Other	balance
2015 – Consolidated	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)
Employee benefits	435	144	–	–	–	–	–	579
Non-deductible accruals	133	77	–	–	–	–	–	210
Non-assessable lay by
gross profit	128	(275)	–	–	–	–	–	(147)
Inventories	385	74	–	–	–	–	–	459
Gift vouchers	184	57	–	–	–	–	–	241
Operating lease provision	644	85	–	–	–	–	–	729
Interest rate swap	61	(61)	–	–	–	–	–	–
Total	1,970	101	–	–	–	–	–	2,071

			Recognised		Reclassified
		Recognised	in other	Recognised	from equity
	Opening	in profit or	comprehen-	directly in	to profit or	Acquisitions		Closing
	balance	loss	sive income	equity	loss	/disposals	Other	balance
2016 – Consolidated	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)	($’000)
Employee benefits	579	179	–	–	–	–	–	758
Non-deductible
accruals	210	57	–	–	–	–	–	267
Non-assessable layby
gross profit	(147)	(14)	–	–	–	–	–	(161)
Inventories	459	17	–	–	–	–	–	476
Gift vouchers	241	58	–	–	–	–	–	299
Operating lease
provision	729	122	–	–	–	–	–	851
Interest rate swap	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
IPO transaction costs
– listing	–	450	–	–	–	–	–	450
IPO transaction costs –
issuance of new shares	–	–	–	421	–	–	–	421
Total	2,071	869	–	421	–	–	–	3,361
2017 – Consolidated
Employee benefits	758	135	–	–	–	–	–	893
Non-deductible
accruals	267	107	–	–	–	–	–	374
Non-assessable layby
gross profit	(161)	41	–	–	–	–	–	(120)
Inventories	476	26	–	–	–	–	–	502
Gift vouchers	299	(95)	–	–	–	–	–	204
Operating lease
provision	851	77	–	–	–	–	–	928
Interest rate swap	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
IPO transaction costs
– listing	450	(113)	–	–	–	–	–	337
IPO transaction costs –
issuance of new shares	421	(105)	–	–	–	–	–	316
Total	3,361	73	–	–	–	–	–	3,434

Comparative analysis of broad categories cash flow

Current tax payable of the company for the financial period 2015 to 2017 is appended below as extracted from the audited financial report of the company:

	2017	2016	2015
	$’000	$’000	$’000
Current tax liability	851	844	2,439

Basic reason for current tax payable showed in current tax liability not matched with Income tax expense is due to tax payable to be paid in subsequent month of the next financial year. As the tax liability generates through the operation process and it is normal trend or practice to pay the tax of last month of the financial year in the subsequent month of next financial year, the provision for such expenses are made to make the financial report justified and logical with prudence.

The difference between income tax expense as per profit or loss and other comprehensive income statement and payment made as per cash flow statement for three years of Baby Bunting Group Ltd is given below:

	2017	2016	2015
	$’000	$’000	$’000
Income tax expense as per income statement	5,448	3,853	2988
Income tax paid as per cash flow	5,513	6,213	2673
difference	-65	– 2360	315

 Reasons for such differences are:

• Difference in taxable profit and book profit to generate deferred tax asset
• Paid provision of tax liability for last year

Baby Bunting Group Ltd is dealing in the retailing segment of business. The company is in simple format of retailing products from its outlets. The basic business operation is depending upon procurement and selling of saleable goods. Income tax is mainly connected with the profit of the company. It is found from the analysis of three years’ financial statement that the company has generated deferred tax through their financial information management. Moreover tax liability is shown in current liability depicting that the company has normal trend of keeping income tax payable in their books. Most critical finding is related to derivation of deferred tax with identification of its components. It is also observed that consideration of non-deductible expenses inflate income tax payable for the company. Another area of confusion prevails in the area of payment of income tax through cash flow and the income tax booked in profit or loss and other comprehensive income statement. A new insight in the form of more clarity or prudence is required for treatment of income tax in the financial statement to make it easy to understand by the respective stakeholder 

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