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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Accounting Definitions For Finance & Accounts Interview


Calculated Intangible Value - CIV

A method of valuing a company's intangible assets. This calculation attempts to allocate a fixed value to intangible assets
that does not change according to the company's market value. Examples of intangible assets include brand equity
and proprietary technology.

Usually a company's intangible assets are valued by subtracting a firm's book value from its market value. However, opponents of this method
argue that because market value constantly changes, the value of intangible assets changes also, making it an inferior measure. 
Finding a company's CIV involves seven steps:

1. Calculate the average pretax earnings for the past three years.
2. Calculate the average year-end tangible assets for the past three years.
3. Calculate the company's return on assets (ROA).
4. Calculate the industry average ROA for the same three-year period as in Step 2.
5. Calculate excess ROA by multiplying the industry average ROA by the average tangible assets calculated in Step 2. Subtract the excess return from the pretax earnings from Step 1.
6. Calculate the three-year average corporate tax rate and multiply by the excess return. Deduct the result from the excess return.
7. Calculate the net present value of the after-tax excess return. Use the company's cost of capital as a discount rate.


Capitalized Interest

An account created in the income statement section of a business' financial statements that holds a suitable amount of funds meant to
pay off upcoming interest payments. Furthermore, this type of interest is seen as an asset and unlike most conventional types of interest, 
it also is expensed over time.

Some debate exists over the decision to capitalize interest for tax purposes. Some people don't prefer to take
the tax deduction benefit that arises from making an interest payment spread over time in a situation where
interest is capitalized. To these people, it is far more beneficial to receive the complete deduction right away.

Cash And Cash Equivalents - CCE

An item on the balance sheet that reports the value of a company's assets that are cash or can be converted into cash immediately.

Examples of cash and cash equivalents are bank accounts, marketable securities and Treasury bills.

Current Portion Of Long-Term Debt


A portion of the balance sheet that represents the total amount of long-term debt that must be paid within the next year.
The balance sheet has a liability section, which is broken down into long-term and current debt.
When a debt payment is set to be made in longer than a year's time, it is recorded in the long-term debt section,
and when that payment becomes due within a year, it moves to the "current portion of long-term debt" section.

The purpose and importance of this section of the balance sheet is that it gives investors an idea of
how much money will be spent this year to resolve the current portion of the long-term debt.
This can be compared to the current cash and cash equivalents to measure whether the
company is actually able to make the payment. A company with a large current portion and a small
cash position has a higher risk of default and should be a warning sign to investors.

Cash Earnings Per Share - Cash EPS


A measure of financial performance that looks at the cash flow generated by a company on a per share basis.
This differs from basic earnings per share (EPS), which looks at the net income of the company on a per share basis.
The higher a company's cash EPS, the better it is considered to have performed over the period.
A company's cash EPS can be used to draw comparisons to other companies or to the company's own past results.
You may sometimes see cash EPS defined as either EPS plus amortization of goodwill and other intangible items, or net income plus
depreciation divided by outstanding shares. 
Whatever the definition, the point of cash EPS is that it's a stricter number than other variations on EPS because cash flow

cannot be manipulated as easily as net income.

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