This document discusses long-term financial planning. It explains that long-term planning focuses on goals, investments, financing needs, dividend policies and debt ratios. Percentage of sales models are introduced, where sales forecasts drive most other variables. Planning models can explore alternative strategies but do not determine the best plan or whether growth creates shareholder value. External financing may be needed if growth exceeds the internal growth rate, which is the maximum sustainable without new funds.
2. Long-Term Financial Planning
Financial plans establish a firms financial goals
and provide a benchmark for evaluating
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performance.
This chapter analyzes long-term financial plans
and provides a discussion of growth.
3. Financial Planning
Firms plan for both the short term and the long
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term.
Planning Horizon
Short-term planning: Plans for the next 12 months.
Long-term planning: Plans that exceed the next 12
months.
4. Long-Term Planning
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Long-term planning focuses on:
Long-term financial goals
Investments required to meet these goals
Financing that must be obtained
Dividend policies
Appropriate debt ratios
5. Focus on the Big Picture
Financial plans combine the planning of managers at every
level, but they also reflect senior managements strategic
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plans.
Firms dont plan on a project-by-project basis.
Small projects are aggregated and treated as one large
project.
Best Case
Scenario
Normal Growth
Scenario
Worst Case
Scenario
3 Plans in One:
7. Financial Planning Models
Financial planning models help planners explore the
consequences of alternative strategies.
The effects of a change in sales on working capital will be seen
in which section of a financial plan?
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8. Percentage of Sales Models
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Percentage of Sales Models
Planning model in which sales forecasts are the driving
variables and most other variables are proportional to
sales.
Why are they useful?
Balancing Item
Variable that adjusts to maintain the consistency of a
financial plan.
9. Percentage of Sales Models:
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Example
A forecast using a percentage of sales model expects sales to increase
by 12% annually over the next five years. If costs are proportional to
sales at 80%, and last year's sales were $1,000, what is the projected
net income in year 5?
Projected sales in year 5:
Projected COGS in year 5:
10. Planning Model: Example
Assume this years financial statements are as follows:
Calculate pro forma statements
for 2012, assuming:
1.Sales and operating costs are
expected to grow 10%.
2.Interest rates will remain
constant.
3.The firm will continue to pay
2/3 earnings in dividends.
4.The firm will need 10% more
fixed assets and net working
capital next year to support the
higher sales volume.
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11. Planning Model: Example
2,200 10% higher
1,980 10% higher
220 10% higher
40 Unchanged
180 EBIT - Interest
72 40% of (EBIT Interest)
108 EBIT Interest - Taxes
72 2/3 Net Income
36 Net Income - Dividends
220 10% higher
880 10% higher
1,100 10% higher
400 Temporarily Fixed
636 Increased by retained
earnings
1,036 Debt + Equity
64 Balancing Required External Financing Item (1,100 1,036)
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12. Planning Model: Example
Assuming the firm uses debt as its balancing item, the 2nd
round pro forma balance sheet will look like this:
Notice how the statement once again balances after use of
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the plug item.
13. Planning Model Limits
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Pitfalls in Model Design
Percentage of Sales Models Assumptions
Fixed assets arent added in small increments
14. Planning Model Limits
Planning models do not tell which plan is best
Models can tell how much money the firm
must raise to fund its planned growth, but not
whether that growth contributes to
shareholder value.
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16. External Financing and Growth
Example:
A firms financial planners have projected a growth rate of 12% for the
coming year. Currently, it has assets of $8,000,000 and retained
earnings of $480,000. How much external financing will the firm need?
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18. Internal Growth Rate: Example
What is the maximum internal growth rate consistent with not requiring
external funding for a firm reporting net income of $850,000, a dividend
payout ratio of 35%, and total assets of $14 million?
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19. Sustainable Growth Rate
The steady rate at which a firm can grow without
changing leverage.
How is the sustainable growth rate different from the
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internal growth rate?
20. Sustainable Growth Rate:
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Example
Calculate the rate at which a firm can grow without changing its leverage if
its payout ratio is 35%; equity outstanding at the beginning of the year is
$8,000,000; and its net income for the year is $1,500,000.
Editor's Notes
#2: Chapter 18 Learning Objectives
Describe the contents and uses of a financial plan.
Construct a simple financial planning model.
Estimate the effect of growth on the need for external financing.
#3: Chapter 18 Outline
Financial Planning
Long-term vs. Short-term Planning
Why Plan?
3 Reasons for Financial Planning
Financial Planning Models
Percentage of Sales Models
Planning Model Limits
Common Pitfalls
External Financing and Growth
Internal Growth Rate
Sustainable Growth Rate
#4: Short-term planning: Plans for the next 12 months.
Long-term planning: Plans for greater than 12 months and beyond.
Planning Horizon Time horizon for a financial plan.
A typical planning horizon for long-term plans is 5 years.
#7: Contingency Planning:
Financial plans allow managers to formulate quick responses to inevitable surprises.
Considering Options:
Financial plans often include plans to enter new markets for mere strategic reasons, not due to an immediate positive NPV
Forcing Consistency:
Financial plans force managers at all levels to adhere to the same standards of measure and success metrics.
Note: While financial models ensure consistency between growth assumptions and financing plans, they do not identify the best financing plan.
#8: Pro Formas Projected or forecast financial statements.
#9: Percentage of Sales Model Planning model in which sales forecasts are the driving variables and most other variables are proportional to sales.
Balancing Item Variable that adjusts to maintain the consistency of a financial plan. Also called a plug item.
Example: Suppose a firm commits to a dividend of $100 and raises any extra money it needs by an issue of debt.
In this case, debt is the balancing item.
#12: Note: The assets and liabilities do not equal in the first round pro forma statement, therefore we must use a plug item.
#14: Many models neglect to account for:
Depreciation
Short-term debt
Changes in Leverage
Percentage of Sales Models have unrealistic assumptions:
In reality assets may not be proportional to sales
% of sales models dont adequately account for increases in fixed assets
#16: As the firms projected growth rate increases, more funds are needed to pay for the necessary investments. Therefore, the line is upward-sloping. For high rates of growth the firm must issue new securities to pay for new investments.
Where the sloping line crosses the horizontal axis, external financing is zero; the firm is growing as fast as possible without resorting to new security issues. This is called the internal growth rate.
#20: Sustainable Growth Rate Steady rate at which a firm can grow without changing leverage.