Reference no: EM13304893
You are an investment analyst at Valley Insurance. Robert Jollie, a CFA and your superior, recentlyasked you to prepare a report on Gant Corporation's liquidity. Gant is a manufacturer ofheavy equipment for the agricultural, forestry, and mining industries. Most of its plant capacity islocated in the United States and a majority of its sales are international. Gant's investmentbankers are offering Valley Insurance a participation in a private placement debenture issue. Beyondthe traditional ratio analysis, your memo to Jollie stresses the following:1. Gant's current ratio is 2:1.2. During the prior fiscal year, Gant's working capital increased substantially.3. While Gant's earnings are below record levels, rigorous cost controls yield an acceptable level of profitability andprovide a basis for continued liquidity.
After reviewing your memo, Jollie dismisses it as "totally inadequate"-not because it did not includea quantitative analysis of financial ratios, but because it did not effectively address liquidity.Jollie writes:
Liquidity is a cash issue, and liquidity analysis is a process of evaluating the risk ofwhether a company can pay its debts as they come due. The vagaries and inconsistenciesof working capital definitions do not adequately address this issue. Working capitalanalysis simply accounts for the change in a company's working capital position andadds little to an assessment of liquidity.
Required:
a. Identify five key information items directly reflecting on Gant's liquidity that you should attempt to derive fromthis company's financial statements and management interviews.
b. Identify five qualitative financial and economic assessments specific to Gant and its industry that you shouldconsider in further analyzing Gant's liquidity.
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