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City of New York. Prepared by: Christopher Cairns Eric Lindsay Robert Merkovic Ranbir Khangura. City of New York (Fun Trivia). How many miles of subway track are in NYC? 722 miles When, in New York City, was the first North American chess tournament held? 1843 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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City of New YorkCity of New York
Prepared by:Christopher Cairns
Eric LindsayRobert MerkovicRanbir Khangura
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City of New York (Fun Trivia)– How many miles of subway track are in
NYC?– 722 miles
– When, in New York City, was the first North American chess tournament held?
– 1843
– When was the first New York City Pizzeria opened?
– 1895
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City of New York (Fun Trivia)– Why are NYC cabs yellow?
– Studies indicated it was the easiest colour to spot
– When did the NYSE begin?– 1792 when 24 brokers met under a tree facing
68 Wall Street
– How many miles of street is the NYC transportation dept. responsible for?
– 5700 miles of streets– 753 bridges and tunnels
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Agenda Strategy Analysis
Accounting & Financial Analysis
Forecast Analysis
Bond Rating
‘Take Up’ handout sheet
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Primary Issues
Analysis of not for profit organizations
Assessment of bond rating for the city
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Strategy AnalysisRole of Municipal Government
Provide services for which private sector solutions are imperfect• Public goods• Externalities
Provide a safety net in the community
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Strategy AnalysisKey Players
Customers• Business• Residents
Suppliers• Labor• Private companies (goods & services)• Capital (state, federal government & public market)
Competitors• Private companies• Other municipalities
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Strategy AnalysisBargaining Power of CustomersBargaining Power of Customers
Depends on mobility
HIGH Business & residents are increasingly mobile
Result: Forced to compete for “customers”
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Strategy AnalysisBargaining Power of SuppliersBargaining Power of Suppliers
HIGH Labor suppliers heavily unionized Municipal employees rewarded on basis of
seniority rather than performance Suppliers of capital (state, federal and public
capital market) LOW
Private companies that provide goods & services
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Strategy AnalysisBargaining Power of CompetitorsBargaining Power of Competitors
HIGH Private companies that provide competing
services• Private schools• Health care providers
Competition from other municipalitiesLOW
Some services face little competition• Garbage collection
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Accounting for Municipalities– Non-Profit Accounting Case (similar to
accounting for United Way, Canadian Cancer Society, etc.)
– Financial Statements do not tell us about profitability, but rather about risk
– Analysis is similar: Strategy, Accounting, Financial
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Accounting for Municipalities– Accounts or ‘Funds’ provide detailed
information on inflow and outflow of cash
– Each Fund a separate area of responsibility
– Often up to 1000’s of ‘funds’ for cities as large as NY
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Accounting for Municipalities– General: Primary Fund for Municipality
– Governmental: Capital Projects, etc.
– Proprietary: Hospitals, Water, Sewer
– Fiduciary: Pension Plans
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Differences in Financial Reporting
– No charge for Capital Usage– Debt Service only covers interest
payments– Revenues vs. Expenditures compared
to budget:• Variances (Discrepancies)• Sources and Uses of cash
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Differences in Financial Reporting
– Discretionary Transfers and Expenditures used to eliminate any significant surplus or deficit
– Use of ‘Accounting Tricks’ to get us to a situation where inflows match the outflows
– Lots of ‘Accounting Slippage’
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Case Fact:Since 1970-71, every expense budget has been
balanced with an array of gimmicks- revenue accruals, capitalization of expenses, raiding reserves, appropriation of illusory fund balances, suspension of payments, carry forward of deficits, questionable accounts receivable, and finally, the creation of a public benefit corporation whose purpose is to borrow funds to bail out the expense budget
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Key Performance Measures for Municipalities
– Efficiency:• Cost of providing services• Comparison to other municipalities
– Per Capita / Per household• Output Measures:
– High School Students entering College– High School Test Scores– Crime Rates– Use of Public Services (i.e. Parks, Libraries)
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Sustainability of New York City
– Control of Revenue Sources:• What Revenues are controllable? Not
Controllable?• Overall Percentage of controllable vs. non-
controllable revenues?– Debt Level / Debt Capacity
• However, will state and federal governments bail out cities in trouble?
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Sustainability of New York City
– Capital Maintenance: Capital Expenditures to Total Expenditures
– Liquidity: Current Assets vs. Current Liabilities
– Analysis of Sources vs. Uses (Continuous Balance) – but concerns rise when uses are always higher than sources
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Red Flags– One time items to balance budget– Transfers among funds– Deferral of non-essential expenditures– Transfers from other government
organizations– Slower Collections– Unexplained reductions in costs
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Remember– Goal is to balance the sources of cash
(Revenues) with the uses of cash (Expenditures) • within the various funds• Overall City Budget
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Challenges Facing New York City
– Revenue Sustainability: See Handout• Which of these sources are controllable; which are not
– Expenditure Growth• Increase in Health Care Costs
– Increase in cost of Services:• Less control over revenues• Movement from infrastructure to service based environment• Fluctuations in costs; Universities & Pensions
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Challenges Facing New York City
– One Time Effects on Fund Statements• i.e. Privatization; Sale of the Jails
– Capital Expenditure Analysis• Cutbacks in transit, housing, hospitals, sanitation• Increases in education, environment, police
– Debt and Debt Service increasing
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Challenges Facing New York City
– Increased Resistance from taxpayers• Increased skepticism as to if fair value is received• Improvement of Private Sector
– Competition among municipalities to attract new businesses and jobs
• Providing low cost environments and low taxes.• Leads to disproportionate share of the tax burden.
– Deteriorating Infrastructure
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Financial Plan 1997-2000
Year 1997 1998 1999 2000
Revenues 32981 32155 32310 32829
Expenditures 32981 33839 34969 36250
Deficit 0 1684 2959 3421
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Reasonableness of Forecasts• Recent and forecasted property tax growth
’93 ’94 ’95 ’96 ’97 ’98 ’99 ‘00
1% -1% -4% -5% - 2% 3% 4%
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Growth in Total Expenditures
’93 ’94 ’95 ’96 ’97 ’98 ’99 ‘00
3% 4% 1% 2% 3% 3% 3% 4%
•Doesn’t include risks identified by the controller•Maintenance costs 1/3 of recommended•Capital expenditures 63% of recommended
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Other Concerns
• 1997 budget balanced by the sale of $1.4 billion of one-time items
• Inter-governmental transfers may decrease more than forecasted
• If debt levels continue to rise, will interest rates rise?
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Other Concerns Cont’d…
• Projected savings of $150 million due to changes in actuarial assumptions
• Will proposed consolidation and privatization affect delivery of services?
• Proposed infrastructure Finance Authority would allow debt levels to rise above covenants
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Bond Rating
• Credit Rating Agencies – Moody’s– Standard and Poor’s– Fitch Ratings– Dominion Bond Rating Services
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Bond rating
• Assigns credit ratings to issuers• Measures credit worthiness• Affects interest rates• Used by investors, issuers, investment banks,
broker-dealers, and by governments
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Standard & Poor's• Investment Grade• AAA: the best quality companies, reliable and stable • AA: quality companies, a bit higher risk than AAA • A: economic situation can affect finance • BBB: medium class companies, which are satisfactory at
the moment • Non-Investment Grade • BB: more prone to changes in the economy • B: financial situation varies noticeably • CCC: currently vulnerable and dependent on favorable
economic conditions to meet its commitments
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Moody's
• Investment grade • AAA: Obligations rated AAA are judged to be of the
highest quality, with minimal credit risk. • AA1, AA2, AA3: Obligations rated AA are judged to
be of high quality and very low credit risk. • A1, A2, A3: Obligations rated A are considered
upper-medium grade and low credit risk. • BAA1, BAA2, BAA3: Obligations rated BAA are
subject to moderate credit risk. They are considered medium-grade and as such may possess certain speculative characteristics.
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Challenges of NYC
• Stagnant property taxes• Growing cost• Growing budget gap• Inability to maintain and fund infrastructure• Growing debt
– 1998 possibility to reach statutory ceiling
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Some of the facts
• 1996 total outstanding debt of $30.3 billion– $25.9 billion rated BAA1– S&P downgraded from A- to BBB+ (5.70%)
• 1996 the City issued $5.3 billion bonds– $2.7 to refinance outstanding bonds
• Yield on bond– 1995 was 6.65%– 1996 was 6.18%
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Class discussion
Would you downgrade the City bonds and why?
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Subsequent events
• Moody’s did not downgrade the City bonds• 1996 Wall Street boom• 1998 Moody’s and S&P’s upgraded the City’s
rating– Moody’s from BAA1 to A3– S&P’s from BBB+ to A-
• 1998 the City budgeted $1.2 billion surplus• Concern about tax cut of $700 million in the
future
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Thank you
Any Questions?
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City of New York Fun Facts– The ‘Fashion Institute of Technology’, in NYC is
the only school in the world offering a BSc with a major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Management
– J. C. Gayetty of NYC invented toilet paper in 1857
– NY State was the first to require license plates on cars
– As late as 1840, thousands of pigs roamed wall street to consume garbage as an early sanitation system
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City of New York Fun Facts– The New York Mercantile Exchange began as
the Butter and Cheese Exchange of the 1750’s
– The ‘Big Apple’ is a term coined by musicians meaning to play the big time
– The “New York Post” is the oldest running newspaper in the United States, and was established in 1803