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CH.6PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS:
FORECASTING
The Techniques of Forecasting• The Overall Structure of Forecasts
• Do it comprehensively• Involve many forecasts• Key “drivers”: sales, profit margin
• Focus on projecting “condensed” financial statements
The Techniques of Forecasting (Cont’d)• Getting started: Points of Departure
• Last year performance, last year performance adjusted with recent trends, average performance over several prior years
• The behavior of sales growth: mean reverting
• The behavior of earnings: random walk• The behavior of ROE: mean reverting• The behavior of components of ROE
• Operating asset turnover, net financial leverage: stable
• NOPAT margin and spread: most variable
Making Forecasts• Table 6-1: forecasting assumptions• Table 6-2: forecasted income
statements and balance sheet
Sensitivity Analysis• Seasonality and Interim Forecasts
• Can not focus only on performance of the most recent quarter, but also the performance of the comparable quarter of the prior year