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4.3 Analyzing the Financial Statements
We’re going to build a set of fi nancial statements with roughly the same
format as the historical statements.
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In order to do so, we have to analyze
the statements and make some decisions about plausible predictions and
projections for the future.
4.3.1 Sales Projections
The sales projection is one of the most critical elements in our model of
PPG; it is central to determining the value of the company in the fi nancial
model we build. Before we start, here are some details of PPG’s sales
between 1990 and 2000:
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2000
Sales 8,629
Cost of goods sold 5,334
Selling, general, and administrative
expense 1,646
Operating income nefore depreciation 1,649
Depreciation and amortization 447
Interest expense 193
Nonoperating income (expense) and
special items 8
Pretax income 1,017
Income taxes - total 369
Minority interest 28
Income before extraordinary items 620
Extraordinary items and discontinued
operations 75
Net income (loss) 620
Cash dividends 276
Retained 344
PPG CORPORATION INCOME STATEMENTS, 1991-2000 (Million $)
CDEFGH I J
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
7,757 7,510 7,379 7,218 7,058 6,331 5,754 5,814 5,673
4,696 4,476 4,397 4,340 4,212 3,866 3,633 3,695 3,676
1,514 1,404 1,318 1,243 1,214 1,137 1,073 1,083 1,079
1,547 1,630 1,664 1,634 1,632 1,329 1,048 1,036 918
415 354 348 340 332 318 331 352 351
142 119 115 108 93 91 109 148 169
-17 137 -26 . . -64 -63 . -44
973 1,294 1,175 1,240 1,262 856 544 542 354
377 466 435 471 480 325 236 218 147
28 27 26 25 15 16 13 4 5
568 801 714 744 768 515 295 319 201
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568 801 714 744 767.6 514.6 22.2 319.4 276.2
264 252 239 237 239 238 221 200 183
304 549 475 507 529 277 -199 120 94
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Year Sales
Year-on-
year growth
1990 5,889
1991 5,673 -3.67% <-- =B4/B3-1
1992 5,814 2.49%
1993 5,754 -1.03%
1994 6,331 10.03%
1995 7,058 11.47%
1996 7,218 2.27%
1997 7,379 2.23%
1998 7,510 1.78%
1999 7,757 3.29%
2000 8,629 11.24%
Compound growth
rate
3.89% <-- =(B13/B3)^(1/10)-1
PPG CORPORATION ANALYSIS OF SALES 1990-2000
PPG, Sales and Sales Growth, 1990–2000
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1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
9,000
10,000
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Sales ($ million)
-6%
-4%
-2%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
Sales growth
Sales Year-on-
year growth
3. We already made lots of judgment calls in the historical fi nancial statements. For
example, we combined all the debt items into one.