Financial Reporting Quality: Aggregate Accruals
Earnings can be decomposed into cash and accrual components. The accrual component (aggregate accruals) has been found to have less persistence than the cash component, and therefore (1) earnings with higher accrual component are less persistent than earnings with smaller accrual component, all else equal; and (2) the cash component of earnings should receive a higher weighting evaluating company performance.
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- Statement of Comprehensive Income
- Common-Size Income Statement
- Analysis of Solvency Ratios
- DuPont Analysis: Disaggregation of ROE, ROA, and Net Profit Margin
- Analysis of Reportable Segments
- Operating Profit Margin since 2005
- Return on Equity (ROE) since 2005
- Total Asset Turnover since 2005
- Price to Earnings (P/E) since 2005
- Analysis of Debt
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Balance-Sheet-Based Accruals Ratio
HP Inc., balance sheet computation of aggregate accruals
US$ in millions
| Oct 31, 2018 | Oct 31, 2017 | Oct 31, 2016 | Oct 31, 2015 | Oct 31, 2014 | Oct 31, 2013 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Assets | |||||||
| Total assets | |||||||
| Less: Cash and cash equivalents | |||||||
| Operating assets | |||||||
| Operating Liabilities | |||||||
| Total liabilities | |||||||
| Less: Notes payable and short-term borrowings | |||||||
| Less: Long-term debt, excluding current portion | |||||||
| Operating liabilities | |||||||
| Net operating assets1 | |||||||
| Balance-sheet-based aggregate accruals2 | |||||||
| Financial Ratio | |||||||
| Balance-sheet-based accruals ratio3 | |||||||
| Benchmarks | |||||||
| Balance-Sheet-Based Accruals Ratio, Competitors4 | |||||||
| Apple Inc. | |||||||
| Arista Networks Inc. | |||||||
| Cisco Systems Inc. | |||||||
| Super Micro Computer Inc. | |||||||
Based on: 10-K (reporting date: 2018-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2016-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2015-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2014-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2013-10-31).
1 2018 Calculation
Net operating assets = Operating assets – Operating liabilities
= – =
2 2018 Calculation
Balance-sheet-based aggregate accruals = Net operating assets2018 – Net operating assets2017
= – =
3 2018 Calculation
Balance-sheet-based accruals ratio = 100 × Balance-sheet-based aggregate accruals ÷ Avg. net operating assets
= 100 × ÷ [( + ) ÷ 2] =
4 Click competitor name to see calculations.
Cash-Flow-Statement-Based Accruals Ratio
HP Inc., cash flow statement computation of aggregate accruals
US$ in millions
| Oct 31, 2018 | Oct 31, 2017 | Oct 31, 2016 | Oct 31, 2015 | Oct 31, 2014 | Oct 31, 2013 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net earnings | |||||||
| Less: Net cash provided by operating activities | |||||||
| Less: Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities | |||||||
| Cash-flow-statement-based aggregate accruals | |||||||
| Financial Ratio | |||||||
| Cash-flow-statement-based accruals ratio1 | |||||||
| Benchmarks | |||||||
| Cash-Flow-Statement-Based Accruals Ratio, Competitors2 | |||||||
| Apple Inc. | |||||||
| Arista Networks Inc. | |||||||
| Cisco Systems Inc. | |||||||
| Super Micro Computer Inc. | |||||||
Based on: 10-K (reporting date: 2018-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2016-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2015-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2014-10-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2013-10-31).
1 2018 Calculation
Cash-flow-statement-based accruals ratio = 100 × Cash-flow-statement-based aggregate accruals ÷ Avg. net operating assets
= 100 × ÷ [( + ) ÷ 2] =
2 Click competitor name to see calculations.