Dangoyaro Plc is a manufacturing company, and the summarized financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2019, and the comparative figures for 2018 are as follows:

Statement of Financial Position as at September 30

Equity and liabilities
Equity

The following information was obtained from the chairman’s statement in the annual report presented at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on December 22, 2019, and in the notes to the financial statements.

(i) Market condition during the year ended September 30, 2019, proved very challenging due largely to difficulties in the global economy as a result of the recession, which led to a decline in the share price and property values.

(ii) Dangoyaro Plc has not been immune from these effects and our properties have suffered impairment losses of ₦125 million in the year. The excess of these losses over previous surpluses has led to a charge to cost of sales of ₦37.5 million in addition to the normal depreciation charge.

(iii) There is no addition to or disposal of non-current assets during the year.

(iv) In response to the downturn, the company has made a number of employees redundant, incurring severance costs of ₦32.5 million (included in cost of sales), undertaken cost savings in advertising and other administrative expenses.

(v) The difficulty in the credit market has meant that the finance cost of our fixed interest bank loan has increased from ₦12.5 million to ₦15 million. In order to improve cash flows, the company made a rights issue during the year and reduced the dividend per share by 50%.

(vi) Despite the above events and the associated costs, the board of directors of Dangoyaro Plc believes the company’s performance has been quite resilient in these difficult times.

You are required to prepare:

a. An adjusted statement of profit or loss for the year ended September 30, 2019 (without taking into consideration information in the chairman’s statement and notes to the financial statements). (5 Marks)

b. Statement of changes in equity for the year ended September 30, 2019. (8 Marks)

c. Statement of cash flows for the year ended September 30, 2019, using the indirect method in accordance with provisions of IAS 7. (12 Marks)

d. Analyse and discuss the financial performance and position of Dangoyaro Plc as shown by the above financial statements as at September 30, 2019, using the following financial ratios:

i. Gross profit margin
ii. Net profit margin
iii. Return on capital employed (CE = ordinary shares plus reserves)
iv. Asset turnover
v. Current ratio
vi. Quick ratio
vii. Gearing ratio
viii. Receivables period
ix. Inventory period
x. Payables period

(15 Marks)
(Total 40 Marks)

(a) Dangoyaro Plc Adjusted Statement of Profit or Loss for the year ended September 30, 2019

(b) Dangoyaro Plc Statement of Changes in Equity for the year ended September 30, 2019

(c) Dangoyaro Plc Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended September 30, 2019
Statement of cash flows for the year ended September 30, 2019




W1: Schedule of movement in property plant & equipment

(d) Financial Performance and Position Analysis of Dangoyaro Plc
i. Profitability:

  • Dongoyaro Plc, revenue declined by 18% and its gross profit by 60%. This alone paints the picture of a very challenging trading environment. The results are worsened by N37.5million on impairment and N32.5million severance cost charged to cost of sales.
  • The gross profit percentage is 13.6% compared to 27.8% in year 2018. Similarly, net profit margin also declined from 9.7% to negative 7.1%.
  • Even when all the distortion stated in the chairman‟s statement is not considered the profit performance of the company still declined over the period.
  • The decline in ROCE from 15.2% to 11.9% is also an indication of poor efficiency of the utilisation of the company‟s assets.

(ii) Liquidity:

  • Despite the downturn in trading, Dongoyaro Plc‟s liquidity position has improved. Both the current ratio and quick ratio improved over the period.
  • The actual bank situation improved from N2.5million to N30million in year 2019
  • The improvement in liquidity position must have been due to the fact that the company made a rights issue to existing shareholders, disposed of some of its financial assets and cut down dividend payments by about 50%
  • .

  • Similarly, there was a better working capital management, the company granted less credit period to debtors and deliberately took more credit period from its suppliers while the inventory turnover period was fairly stable over the period.

(iii) Gearing:

  • The gearing increased over the period by 1%. This was made possible because Dangoyaro Plc repaid part of the loan (i.e N25million) during the year and also gave rights Issues, thereby keeping the company‟s gearing under control.
  • In view of the stable gearing, the company is less exposed to creditors but it will be better not to increase the gearing in future due to increasing interest rate as noted in the chairman‟s statement.

Dangoyaro plc
Computation of relevant accounting ratios for the year 2019 and 2018