Eskom’s troubles laid bare

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Eskom is drowning in debt and cannot meet the demand for electricity. Jacques Jonker examines the power utility’s financial statements since 2007 from two main aspects: returns generated on certain inputs and how Eskom’s debt measures up to its assets

If it were any other business, it would probably be liquidated and sold for scrap provided there was anything left to salvage.

Returns on inputs measure how efficiently a firm is functioning and the relationship between debts and assets illustrates how well a firm is managing its debt.The net profit margin is indicative of how well a firm generates a return on its production inputs after accounting for after the fact expenses such as taxes.

A negative ROI means Eskom’s assets are either useless in and of themselves , or that upper management at Megawatt Park are unable to generate a profit from its assets.Equity is the amount of money that owners of a firm would get back if the firm were to be liquidated and all of its assets were sold off to pay off its total outstanding debt .The ROE was -13.54% for the 2018/19 financial year, down from -1.37% in the previous financial year.

 

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Why do they not build their own grid, currently we are having issues with these IPPs

They will blame all this on the white CEO. Whatch this space.

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