Model - Cash to Service Debt
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Model - Cash to Service Debt
Glossary
Cash To Service Debt Debt RepaymentTranscript
To calculate the cash available to service debt, we'll start by working out the cash flow generated to service debt just from this year. And then we'll add on beginning cash, i.e. all the cash accumulated from previous years. So we start with the operating cash flow, go up to our cash flow statement. There it is, cash flow from operations. Adds on your investing cash flow. Again, we've got that in the cash flow statements, cash flow investing. And lastly, we don't want all of the financing items because that includes repayments of debt. We're trying to work out the cash available to pay those items. So we definitely don't want to include those items here, but we do want to include dividends. We're going to assume we pay off our dividends first, then we get paying on our debt. Now, you may think, oh, that sounds like the wrong way around. Surely you pay your debt before your dividends. For a company that is in health, it will pay its dividends, then it'll pay its debt and then if there's any money left over, it can then do accelerated repayments. So take off the dividends and sum the items above. I get cash flow generated to service debt in the year of negative 399.8. However, did we have any beginning cash? Well, again, up to the cash flow statement, beginning cash was a very healthy 21,549, so my cash available to service debt, I take that number and the cash flow generated during the year and we've got 21,149.2.