technical question - buy $100 pp&e with 50% cash and 50% debt how does this affect the 3 statements?

getting confused on this, does anyone have a solid answer? what does year 0 look like

is: no change

cfs: cfi down $50, cff up $50

bs: asset side has $100 ppe but used $50 cash / liabilities debt is up $50

is this correct?

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this is where I am confused also - pretty sure my interviewer said cfi is down $100 as well due to the asset being worth $100, but we used 50% debt 50% cash, so $50 each. does this both still fall under CFI making it down $100 or down $50?

 
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Year 0

CFI: CAPEX is here, so $100 down

CFF: $50 increase in debt

Total CFS: -100+50 = -50 change in cash

BS: PP&E up 100, Cash down 50, Debt (assuming long-term) up 50

Income statement: no change

 

Assuming no interest payments:

PnL: no impact

CF: -100 cf from investing, +50 cf from financing -> change in cash -50

BS: Cash -50, PPE +100, Liabilities +50 -> assets increase by 50, liabilities increase by 50 as well

With interest paid (e.g. 10% interest and 20% tax):

PnL: -5 before tax, -4 after tax

CF: -4 cf from operations, -100 cfi, +50 cff -> -54 change in cash

BS: Cash -54, PPE +100, Liab. +50, Equity -4 -> Assets increase by 46, liabilities as well

 

If the company has a solid working capital management and can use supplier financing, they can indeed increase their debt without having to pay interest (which most likely will never work for PPE investments but you get the point…)

I think the main idea of this type of question is to test your basic understanding of how the 3 statements work. If the interviewer wants to dive deeper, he will ask you about the impact of interests paid & depreciation on the new assets, which will obviously both affect the income statement.

 

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