HI5002 Finance for Business: Company Performance Analysis Report

This report provides a comprehensive financial analysis of ANZ and Commonwealth Bank, focusing on key performance indicators from 2016 to 2018. The analysis includes the calculation and interpretation of liquidity ratios (current and quick ratios), profitability ratios (operating net profit margin and return on total assets), efficiency ratios (fixed assets turnover and assets turnover), and solvency ratios (debt-equity and debt ratios). The report also calculates the WACC for both banks and provides recommendations for stakeholders and investors based on the findings. The analysis reveals insights into the banks' financial health, including their ability to meet short-term liabilities, profitability, and efficiency in utilizing assets. The report concludes with recommendations for potential investors, suggesting investment in ANZ bank due to its better liquidity position, and emphasizes the importance of financial planning for the Commonwealth Bank. The data is sourced from annual financial reports and provides a comparative view of the two banks' performance.

Financial for business-
ANZ V
COMMENWEALTH
Bank

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report covers the brief description about the operations of ANZ and commonwealth
bank and trend analysis have been identify with the help of financial ratios. In respective report
sensitivity analysis is performed to determine marketable securities and systematic and
unsystematic risk are discussed for the selected banks. The report also summaries the calculation
of dividend payout ratio and valuable recommendation are given for stakeholder.

TASK 2
2.2. Calculation and analysis of selected performance ratios
It is very important to have a proper analysis of financial statements as it support in
measuring the financial performance of company. The depth analysis ANZ bank and
commonwealth bank have been discussed for the period of 2016 to 2018. in order to complete
the financial analysis of both bank valuable financial ratio are discussed in order to measure
ANZ bank and commonwealth bank position in context to profitability and liquidity.
Liquidity ratio:
These ratio are mainly calculated to determine the ability of company as they are able to
pay its short term liabilities. It is also used by stakeholder holder to determine the liquidity
position of company in specific time. In order to find the liquidity of both bank current ratio and
quick ratio are calculated:
Current ratio: Current assets/ current liabilities
Name of bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth bank 0.17 0.16 0.18
Australia and New
Zealand Bank
0.29 0.27 0.33
Quick ratio: Total current assets- Inventory- prepaid expenses/Current liabilities.
It is another form of liquidity ratio as it describe about the liquidity position in more
descriptive manner as it does not includes prepaid expenses and inventory.
Name of bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth bank 0.16 0.17 0.14
Australia and New
Zealand Bank
0.28 0.23 0.24
From the above, calculation it has been observed that Australian and New Zealand bank
is more able to pay it liabilities from its current assets in last three years.
Profitability ratio:
In business context, the profitability ratio helps to display the profitable position of
company of company within a specific time frame. This ratio is used by investors to extract out
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the profit company used to earn on their revenues, total assets and actual investment made by
company in a year. To calculate profitability of ANZ and commonwealth bank operating net
profit margin and Return on total assets are calculated.
Operating net profit margin: Operation profit/sales *100
Name of Bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth bank 38.63% 40.34% 37.59%
Australia and New
Zealand Bank
27.59% 30.10% 35.21%
Return on Assets: Net income /Average Total Assets
Name of Bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth bank 1.02 1.04 0.96
Australia and New
Zealand Bank
0.63 0.71 0.7
From the calculation, it has been observed that profitability position of commonwealth
bank is much better than ANZ. Apart this, return on total assets helps to describe that
commonwealth bank has earned more return on assets as compare with other bank. Therefore it
can be said ANZ have lower profitable position as compared to commonwealth bank in these
three years.
Efficiency Ratio:
This ratio is basically used to examine the situation that in how well an organisations is
able to use their assets and liabilities in order to meet internal requirements. In order to determine
the efficiency of commonwealth and ANZ bank Fixed assets turnover ratio and assets turnover
ratio is calculated.
Fixed Assets turnover ratio: Net sales/ Average Fixed Assets
It is generally used to calculate the operating performance and is also used as net of
accumulated depreciation.
Name of Bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth 7.05 6.3 7.7
ANZ 9.35 10.21 9.57
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Assets Turnover ratio: Net sales/ Average Total assets
It is also one of the effective efficiency ratio which help to calculate ability of an organisations
to generate sales from actual assets by comparing net sales with average total assets.
Name of Bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth bank 0.03 0.03 0.03
ANZ 0.02 0.02 0.02
From the above calculation it has been calculated that net revenue that is gained on the
fixed assets by commonwealth and ANZ bank, thus it can be observed that there is no vast
difference in earning ability. Both bank are able to generate enough sales from total assets
acquired by companies.
Solvency ratio:
This is one of the main metric, which is used by the companies in order to meet the
ability to set its debt obligation as it shows weather firm have generated enough amount to meet
short and long term liabilities. In order to determine the solvency ratio of both bank Debt equity
ratio and Debt ratio is calculated.
Debt equity ratio: Total Liabilities/ Total Equity
It is an important financial ratio that is helpful to compare a company total debt to total
equity. This ratio mainly display the percentage of bank financing which arise creditors and
investors.
Name of Bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth Bank 17.57 17.19 15.57
ANZ 14.83 14.21 14.9
Debt Ratio: Total Liabilities/ Total Assets
It is also the part of solvency ratio that is used to measure a companies total liabilities on
the total assets and it display the total ability of both bank to pay its total liabilities from actual
assets acquired within a specific time frame.
Name of Bank 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth 0.94 0.93 0.93
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ANZ 0.94 0.93 0.94
From the analysis, it is observed that calculating debt equity ratio for both bank
determine that commonwealth bank is more reliable on total debt in order to meet the financial
obligation of business as compared to ANZ bank.
Free Cash Flow Ratio: Operating cash Flow / current Liabilities
This type of ratio is calculated to measure the capacity of company to convert its current
liabilities from the cash flows earned from a company total operations. It mainly help company
to determine the total bank liquidity in the short term.
Name 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth -26.5 -7.74 0.52
ANZ 50.76 112.63 58.13
Free cash flow to net income:
Name 2016 2017 2018
Commonwealth -0.69 -0.19 0.01
ANZ 1.84 3.74 1.65
WACC of Commonwealth and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Limited
WACC = E / (E + D) * Cost of Equity + D / (E + D) *
Cost of Debt* (1 - Tax Rate)
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ.AX)
Year 2018 2017 2016
WACC 5.62 5.60 5.17
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Year 2018 2017 2016
WACC 4.81 4.84 4.99
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Recommendation based on analysis of results
From the above analysis and WACC it has recommended to stakeholder and investors
that they can make future investments more in ANZ rather than commonwealth bank. This is
because the liquidity position of commonwealth bank was not good and this bank have taken
more amount of loan on its available assets. The calculated figure shows that commonwealth
bank have more shortage of funds to meet its day to day operations. It is observed that ANZ bank
use to provide funds from current assets to meet short term requirement. Thus in recent time,
many investors have suffered major losses as investment are not giving appropriate results.
Therefore it is advised to commonwealth bank to have proper financial planning and take the
permission of investor without making any future changes in term and conditions. To consider
the profitability of last three financial years are important in context to the Commonwealth &
ANZ Bank. As in the financial 2011 to 2013 the average operating profit margin has increased
by 50% to 54%. Both banks are not earning higher profits from the return of total assets. So it
has been analysed that profitability positions of these banks are not good in order to pay more
returns to the investors. Where as ANZ Bank is providing better returns despite of minimum
returns. S it has bee suggested to the investors to make investment in ANZ Bank so that they can
get sufficient returns.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Annual-report commonwealth. 2019. [Online] Available Through:
<https://www.commbank.com.au/about-us/investors/annual-reports.html>.
Annual-report of 2019. [Online] Available Through: <https://shareholder.anz.com/pages/annual-
report-archive>.
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