Essity Creating Value – Business Performance through Financial Insights

Conceptual financial framework 

• Balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements

The financial language

• Conventional and Essity-specific financial concepts

Working capital requirements

• Effects of working capital efficiency efforts on financial reports and operating conditions

The process of making investment decisions

• Net present value, internal rate of return, payback method,
• WACC, hurdle rate

Profitability analysis

• The ROCE concept
• DuPont decompositions
• Essity vs. peers
• Operating profitability vs. owner profitability

Financial strength and growth

• The group financing problem

Mergers & Acquisitions 

• Effects on the financial reports

The future development of Essity

• Simulations and discussions of the financial consequences of future business scenarios