Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Part 2
Another name: Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Part 2
Author: Muhammad Zain
Genre: Business Textbooks Books
Paperback: 67
Summary:
CMA Part 2 – Financial Decision Making – 2019
What are the five classifications of ratios?
- Liquidity ratios, which measure the sufficiency of the firm’s cash resources to meet its short-term cash obligations.
- Leverage, capital structure, solvency and earnings coverage ratios, which evaluate the firm’s ability to satisfy its debt and obligations for other fixed financing charges such as operating leases by looking at the mix of its financing sources and its historical earnings.
- Activity ratios, which provide information on a firm’s ability to manage efficiently its current assets (accounts receivable and inventory) and current liabilities (accounts payable).
- Profitability analysis, which measures the firm’s profit in relation to its total revenue or the amount of net income from each dollar of sales and its return on invested assets.
- Market ratios and earnings per share analysis, or shareholder ratios, which describe the firm’s financial condition in terms of amounts per share of stock.
How is operating income calculated?
Sales or service revenues − Cost of goods sold (COGS)
= Gross profit − Selling, general, and administrative expenses
= Operating income
What is EBITDA?
EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) includes deductions for depreciation and amortization expended. Therefore, EBITDA is EBIT plus depreciation and amortization expense, to “add back” the depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is used to analyze a company’s earnings before interest and taxes as well as before the non-cash charges of depreciation and amortization.
What is a vertical common size financial statement?
A simple vertical common-size financial statement covers one year’s
operating results and expresses each component as a percentage of a
total.
For example, fixed assets will not be stated as a dollar amount but
rather will be stated as a percentage of total assets. Each expense
item will be stated as a percentage of total revenue.
What is horizontal trend series analysis?
Horizontal trend analysis is used to evaluate trends for a single
business over a period of several years. The first year is the base year, and amounts for subsequent years are presented not as dollar amounts but as percentages of the base year amount, with the base year assigned a value of 100%, or 100.
What is the title of Part 2 in the CMA course?
CMA Exam Overview: Scoring, Question Types, Topics. The CMA Exam is comprised of two sections: Part 1 – Financial Reporting, Planning, Performance and Control, and Part 2 – Financial Decision Making.
Is CMA Part 2 Easy?
CMA Exam Part 2 Difficulty: More Subtle
Although there are many formulas (mainly ratios) in Part 2, the material focuses more on analyzing the results instead of just calculating them. Therefore, studying the book would be less time-consuming, but the questions would not be as straightforward as those in Part 1.
