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5 9. Corporate Valuation and Financial Planning: Forecasted Financial Statements a. 1. A-Z 6 NB The APN equation provides useful inghts into the forecasting process, but this equation assumes that all of the firm's key ratios remain constant, which is not likely to hold true. Consequently, it is useful to forecast the firm's financial statements. The firm begins with forecasting its Select which then feeds into the firm's balance sheet. Management looks at operating ratios and their relationship with industry and benchmark averages. The forecasted income statement begins with the prior year's income statement and is adjusted for the sales growth forecast. Some inputs for the income statement are not under the firm's control for example, tax and interest rates. The forecasted balance sheet is calculated from assetration that management has reviewed and changed based on industry and benchmark averages. An Excel spreadsheet is used for this analysis because changes in assumptions, financing and ratios can be made to the statements to review alternative scenarios. The impact of these changes on the firm's forecasted Financial statements ultimately can be used to improve the firm's operations Quantitative Problemi At the end of last year, win Inc. reported the following income statement in minions of dollars): Sales $4,230.00 Operating conta (excluding depreciation) 3,066.00 EBITDA $1,164.00 Depreciation 335.00 EDIT 5829.00 Interest 130.00 EBT $699.00 Taxes (407) 229.60 Net income 5419.40 Looking ahead to the following year, the company's CFO has assembled this information Year end sales are expected to be higher than 1.2 billion in sales generated last year . Year-end operating costs, excluding depreciation, are expected to increase at the same rates as sales Depreciation costs are expected to increase at the same rate as sales Interest costs are expected to remain unchanged The tax rate is expected to remain at 40 On the basis of this information, what will be the forecast for Edwin's year and net income Round your answers to two decimal plats. Do not round intermediate calculations, inter all values as positive numbers in millions of dollars) Sales Operating costs (excluding depreciation) ENGAGE MINDTAP Q Search this 15 Operating costs (excluding depreciation) 3,066,00 EBITDA $1,164.00 Depreciation 335.00 EBIT $829.00 Interest 130.00 $699.00 Taxes (409) 279.60 Net Income $419.40 Looking ahead to the following year, the company's CFO has assembled this information: Year-end sales are expected to be 4% higher than $4.23 billion in sales generated last year. Year-end operating sts, excluding depreciation, are expected to increase at the same rates as sales. Depreciation costs are expected to increase at the same rate as sales. Interest costs are expected to remain unchanged. The tax rate is expected to remain at 40%. On the basis of this information, what will be the forecast for Edwin's year-end net income? Round your answers to two decimal places. Do not round Intermediate calculations, Enter all values as positive numbers, (in millions of dollars) Sales Operating costs (excluding depreciation) EBITDA Depreciation EBIT Interest EBT Taxes Net Income Check My Work (3 remaining)