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Financial Reporting Quality: Aggregate Accruals
Difficulty: Advanced
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.
Balance-Sheet-Based Accruals Ratio
General Mills Inc., balance sheet computation of aggregate accruals
USD $ in thousands
2018 Calculations
1 Net operating assets = Operating assets – Operating liabilities
= – =
2 Balance-sheet-based aggregate accruals = Net operating assets 2018 – Net operating assets 2017
= – =
3 Balance-sheet-based accruals ratio = 100 × Balance-sheet-based aggregate accruals ÷ Avg. net operating assets
= 100 × ÷ [( + ) ÷ 2] = %
| Ratio | Description | The company |
|---|---|---|
| Balance-sheet-based accruals ratio | Ratio is found by dividing balance-sheet-based aggregate accruals by average net operating assets. | Using the balance-sheet-based accruals ratio, General Mills Inc. deteriorated earnings quality from 2017 to 2018. |
Cash-Flow-Statement-Based Accruals Ratio
General Mills Inc., cash flow statement computation of aggregate accruals
USD $ in thousands
2018 Calculations
1 Cash-flow-statement-based accruals ratio = 100 × Cash-flow-statement-based aggregate accruals ÷ Avg. net operating assets
= 100 × ÷ [( + ) ÷ 2] = %
| Ratio | Description | The company |
|---|---|---|
| Cash-flow-statement-based accruals ratio | Ratio is found by dividing cash-flow-statement-based aggregate accruals by average net operating assets. | Using the cash-flow-statement-based accruals ratio, General Mills Inc. deteriorated earnings quality from 2017 to 2018. |
