May 2019 Q3

The Board of Pogas Furniture Ltd (PFC) after few years of incorporation has decided to get the company listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The Board has contacted you to assist in determining the true value of the business as at 31 December 2018 and to provide a range of possible issue price based on Net Assets and Earnings Yield. Oliso Ltd, a listed company and a competitor of PFC, current results show price-earnings ratio of 5 and earnings yield of 20%. The summarised unaudited financial statements of PFC are as follows:

Your examination of the financial statements and the underlying records revealed the following additional information:
i) The sales revenue includes GH¢24 million of revenue for credit sales made on a ‘sale or return’ basis. At 31 December 2018, customers who had not paid for the goods, had the right to return GH¢7.8 million of them. PFC applied a markup on cost of 30% on all these sales. In the past, PFC’s customers have sometimes returned goods under this type of agreement.

ii) The depreciable non-current assets have not been depreciated for the year ended 31 December 2018.

• PFC has a policy of revaluing its land and buildings at the end of each accounting year. The values in the above statement of financial position are as at 1 January 2018 when the buildings had a remaining life of 18 years. A qualified surveyor has valued the land and buildings at 31 December 2018 at GH¢33 million.
• Plant and equipment are depreciated at 12.5% per annum on the reducing balance basis. As at 31 December 2018, the value in use and the fair value less cost to sell were assessed at GH¢21.3 million and GH¢20.25 million respectively.
• The patent right was acquired in January 2018 at a cost of GH¢3 million. It is expected to be used for 5 years after which the right of usage would have to be renewed in January 2023.

iii) The financial assets at fair value through profit or loss are held in a fund whose value changes directly in proportion to a specified market index. At 1 January 2018 the relevant index was 240.0 and at 31 December 2018 the index was 259.2

iv) In late December 2018, the directors of PFC discovered a material fraud perpetrated by the company’s credit controller. Investigations revealed that a total of GH¢9 million of the trade receivables (included in current assets) as shown in the statement of financial position at 31 December 2018 had in fact been paid and the money had been stolen by the credit controller. An analysis revealed that GH¢3 million had been stolen in the year to 31 December 2017 with the rest being stolen in the current year. PFC is not insured for this loss and it cannot be recovered from the credit controller since his whereabout is unknown.

v) As at 31 December 2018, the company’s taxable temporary differences had increased to GH¢24 million. The deferred tax relating to the increase in the temporary differences should be taken to profit or loss. The applicable corporate tax rate is 25%.The above figures do not include the estimated provision for current income tax on the profit for the year ended 31 December 2018. After allowing for any adjustments required in items (i) to (iv), the directors have estimated the provision of current tax liability for 2018 at 25% of adjusted profit. (This is in addition to the deferred tax effects of item (v)).
(Note: Assume that it is about 20% riskier in investing in a non-listed entity (as compared with a listed entity.)

Required:
a) Redraft the financial statements above (taking into consideration the additional information (i) – (v) above.            (11 marks)

b) Based on the revised financial statements, provide a range of possible issue prices per share using Net Assets Method and Earnings Yield/Price Earnings Ratio Method.                                                                                                              (4 marks)