vineetr
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
Accounting policies dont serve as a regulation on how a business should operate. Sometimes, if something is not clear under law, the company would look to figure out what liabilities it would incur, instead of not operating at all. Laws, tax codes, financial reporting regulations take time to catch up with business reality.
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
What they teach you in school is mostly theory
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
They net it off against the variable consideration, so you need to go and dig a bit further on what does into defining a variable consideration.
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
The term 'net of variable consideration' would mean the transaction amount or sale amount or payment amount for an order is not how Zomato recognises revenue
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
The important part of that statement is this
amount of transaction price (net of variable consideration)
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
This is how Zomato recognizes revenue -
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
This page looks like an extract from the annual report. So you should probably head there
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
Depends on their revenue recognition policy
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
Lot of shareholder-unfriendly costs are hidden by companies under such PnL heads
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
You should actually get a breakdown of the other costs, once people costs become less significant
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
Beyond a point, growing geographically is about adding new teams for new geographies, with the management cost not scaling linearly
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
Generally, a company like Zomato would have city specific growth teams, and a management structure to support such teams
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
For marketing and sales, it would depend on how the business scales horizontally across geographies
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
The costs for hiring engineers in early stages is so high, but once the revenue scales up, there is no need to have the engineering team also grow linearly
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
This is notable for tech expenses. Those are usually front-loaded for a business.
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
There are other expenses that start to matter once business has to scale
246 replies
IIIndia Investments
•Created by reo_sam on 12/12/2023 in #fundamental-analysis
General Discussions
Thats the second reason for employee cost as part of expenses to go down
246 replies