Financial Performance

Nature and significance of equity, non current assets and liabilities of the company

Non current assets: These are the long term assets that are acquired by Aston Villa PLC in order to operate business effectively. Company is having three different types of non current assets that are tangible fixed assets. These assets are plant and equipments that are used top provide services to the visitors, motor vehicles used for the same purpose and freehold building is used operate all the operational activities and to execute business.  All of them have been changed with the time. In year 2015 they were £9979713, in 2016 they have decreased up to £9034013 and in 2017 increased up to £9083217. Organisation have suffered financial crisis which has resulted in decreased value of assets in year 2016 (Camerinelli, 2016).

Non current liabilities: These are also known as long term liabilities that needs to be repay after a long period in future. Aston Villa PLC is not having such type of liabilities in its balance sheet.

Equity: It refers to the investment of shareholder in the company. Aston Villa PLC is having equity in the form of called up share capital. Equities are vary important for the company because it is required to run business and also execute all operations. In year 2015 equities were £84938182 which has not been changed in three years and remain constant (Edwards, 2014).

Effect on profit of 10% variation in depreciation

Depreciation: It is total decrement in the value of an asset on yearly basis. Changes in depreciation of Aston Villa PLC is shown in below table:

If the depreciation increases in 2015, 2016 and 2017 than profits will be decreased for Aston Villa PLC. In situation of 10% decrement in the depreciation company may increase its profits because of the reduction in expenses of Aston Villa PLC.

Interpretation of cash flow statement

Cash flow statement: While an organisation needs to analyse sources and application of funds than cash flow statement is an helpful tool to get the exact information. The organisation is not preparing any cash flow statements that leads the organisation toward problems because thee are no proper records of cash inflows and outflows. Aston Villa PLC is exempted from formulating cash flow statements according to revised financial reporting standard 1 (Epstein, Buhovac and Yuthas, 2015). Consolidated cash flow statements are generated by its parent company Reform Acquisition Limited.

Analysis of performance of company with the help of ratios

Financial ratios: Ratios are calculated to analyse that organisational is performing well or not and invested money is utilised effectively or not. To measure financial strength of Aston Villa PLC few financial ratios are calculated that are as follows:

Current ratio: It is used to analyse ability of an organisation to pay back all the long term and short term debts. For Aston Villa PLC the ratio is calculated to examine that what amount of current assets organisation is having to deal with current liabilities.

Formula: Current assets/ current liabilities

Quick ratio: It is calculated to determine relation between current liabilities and quick assets. For Aston Villa PLC the ratio is as follows:

Formula: Quick assets/ current liabilities

Debt equity ratio: This ratio is used to evaluate organisation's financial leverage and health. In Aston Villa PLC it is calculated by the accountants to examine that organisational equities are able to repay long term debts or not (Galy and Sauceda,  2014).

Formula: External liabilities/ internal liabilities

Return on asset ratio: Ability of a company to manage all its assets is measured with the help of this ratio that helps to assess performance of company. For Aston Villa PLC it has been calculated as follows:

Formula: Net profit/ Total assets

Debtor turnover ratio: It depicts the way in which an organisation manage all the debtors and in what time all the amount recovered from them.

Formula: Total turnover/ debtor

Net profit margin ratio: This ratio is calculated to identify relationship between organisational turnover and total profit or loss for a particular financial year (Mahto and Khanin, 2015).

Formula: Net profit/ Net turnover

Interpretation of ratios: All the above calculated ratios depicts that organisation is not in a good situation it is facing losses from last few years. Financial performance is also not good as there are no specific sources of funds. Current ratio for all the three years are 0.70, 0.59, 0.74 respectively. In year 2015-16 Aston Villa PLC have faced financial crisis which has resulted in decreased current ratio. Organisation is not having stock or prepaid expenses in year 2017 hence quick ratio will be same as current ratio for the same year for 2015 and 2016 quick ratio was 0.69 and 0.59. Debt equity ratios for Aston Villa PLC are 1.30, 1.65, 1.74 respectively for 2015, 2016 and 2017. return on assets ratios for three years are -0.64, -0.34 and -0.07. Debtor turnover ratios are 1.35, 1.21 and 0.62 for a period of three years.  Net profit margin ratios are as -0.51, -0.28 and -0.11 for year 2015 to 2017. According to these ratios organisation's performance is not good and organisation is financially weak.

Difference between financial statements of limited company and sole proprietorship partnership

Financial statements of limited companies, sole proprietorship and partnership are different form each other because there are various regulation like compulsion of audit are made for limited companies that are not required for other businesses. In limited companies all the profits are distributed to the stakeholders who have invested their money in the company for the purpose of getting share in profits.  In sole proprietorship al, the profits are acquired by the owner of the firm who is running the business. In partnership firms profits are distributed among the members on the pre decided rate (Su and Tsang, 2015).

Commitments of Aston Villa PLC

According to a statement of Aston Villa PLC that it has been in an agreement with HMRC and the club ids going to continue to fulfil all its obligations. It has also been declared that there are no insolvency practitioners in the club. The club is not willing to continue all its activities for this purpose it requires various equipments, motor vehicle, investments, loans and etc. this commitment of the club is going to affect the equities, non current assets and liabilities of Aston Villa PLC because it is required to fulfil the commitment. In future the organisation need various equipments for all its players who are currently playing for the club, it also requires to hire more players in future so that it may participate in different leagues of football to overcome from all its financial crisis.

If the club is having experienced players that there is a high possibility for Aston Villa PLC to overcome all its issues that has been faced while loosing a foot leagues. As to the owner is willing to continue the club than investments and loans are required so that all the activities can b performed effectively. Increased investments will result in enhancement in non current liabilities. An increment in equipments and motor vehicle will increase the amount of non current assets of the club. Equities will also be increased of Aston Villa as new shareholder are required to enhance monetary resources that are required to pay to the players whoa re going to play for the club in future. For the continuation purpose various new players are going to be acquired by club and it is very important to pay them satisfactory amount (Commitments of Aston Villa PLC, 2018).

Continuation statement of the owner of club will affect the equities, non current assets and liabilities as in business new fixed assets are going to be purchased, investments and loans are going to be enhanced and number of share holders will also be increased in the future period.

Conclusion

From the above project report, it has been summarised that financial performance of a company can be analysed with the help of final accounts or annual report in which all the finance related information is recorded by the accountants. There are various situation in which organisation is facing crisis related to monetary resources that may affect its operational efficiency. Some of them are unnecessary expenses, increased debts form clients, ineffective financial management system. All of the crisis can be dealt with the help of proper planning and effective policies that are required to be implemented by the owner of the company.

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