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Projecting NOPAT and NOA Using Parsimonious Forecasting Method
Following are Cisco Systems’ sales, net operating profit after tax (NOPAT), and net operating assets (NOA) for its year ended July 31, 2016 ($ millions).
Sales | $49,247 | |||
Net operating profit after tax (NOPAT) | 10,575 | |||
Net operating assets (NOA) | 26,472 |
Use the parsimonious method to forecast Cisco’s sales, NOPAT, and NOA for years 2017 through 2020 using the following assumptions.
Sales growth per year | 1.0% |
for 2017 and |
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2.0% |
thereafter |
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Net operating profit margin (NOPM) | 21.5% | ||||||
Net operating asset turnover (NOAT), based on NOA at July 31, 2016 | 1.86 |
Rounding instructions:
Round total revenue "unrounded" to two decimal places.
Round total revenue "rounded", NOPAT and NOA answers to the nearest whole number.
For NOPAT and NOA computations, use total revenue "rounded".
$ millions |
2017 Est | 2018 Est. | 2019 Est. | 2020 Est. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total revenue (unrounded) | $Answer | $Answer | $Answer | $Answer | ||
Total revenue (rounded) | Answer | Answer | Answer | Answer | ||
NOPAT | Answer | Answer | Answer | Answer | ||
NOA | Answer | Answer | Answer | Answer |
Solution:
As per parsimonious method to forecast, forumulas to be used are:
Sales= Previous year sales*(1+growthrate/100)
NOPAT= Current year sales*(NOPM/100)
NOA= Current year sales/NOAT
$Milliion | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|
49739.47 | 50734.26 | 51748.94 | 52783.92 | |
|
49739 | 50734 | 51749 | 52784 | |
|
10694 | 10908 | 11126 | 11349 | |
|
26741 | 27276 | 27822 | 28378 |
Note: All the amount are in $ Millions
To calculate NOPAT and NOA, rounded figure of current year sales has been taken
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