12. Financial performance
12.1. Please elaborate on the main developments in your historical profit and loss and balance sheet development over the last three years.
12.2. Please elaborate on your 2016 YTD performance on both a Company consolidated level and in each main segment/geography. Please also elaborate on your expectations for the FY 2016 and 2017 taking the 2016 YTD performance and your current business plan into account.
12.3. How does the Company plan to improve or maintain its margins? Are there economies of scale that can be leveraged?
12.4. Please discuss the Company's budgeting and long-term financial planning process, including the basis and key assumptions in establishing financial projections.
12.5. Please comment on the composition of the Company’s revenues and operating profit for each product / segment. What are the historical sales prices and sales volumes of each product segment for the last three years?
12.6. Discuss limitations, if any, on access to cash flows / dividends from any subsidiary.
12.7. What are the major factors affecting the performance of the Company during the past three years?
12.8. Describe any domestic or international developments that may impact the Company’s business.
12.9. Please provide an update of the financial performance targets of the Company at the group level and in each market. How ambitious do you consider these targets is light of your recent achievements? How comfortable is management on reaching these targets? Will these targets be publicly communicated? Which are the most challenging targets for the coming years?
12.10. Please comment on your main macro-economic hypotheses underlying your business plan. Are these hypotheses consistent with your previous business plan? Please discuss the main targets and directions that the Company has communicated towards its subsidiaries in each country with regard to the business plan.
12.11. Please discuss in detail historical and projected capital expenditures including split of expansion and maintenance capex. For expansion capex please elaborate on the underlying investments. What is your view on a normalized maintenance capex level. Please discuss any committed capex.
12.12. Please describe the capex initiation and approval process.
12.13. Please discuss in detail historical and projected working capital position and movements. Please elaborate on the working capital cycle. What do you consider to be a normalized working capital level.
12.14. Please provide a breakdown of the Company's indebtedness including all loans, bonds and other financings, and for each, please indicate:
• the lender;
• principal amount and maturity;
• whether the borrowing is secured (and if so, what the collateral is);
• amount outstanding owed by the Company;
• amount still available for drawdown;
• interest rate;
• whether there are any financial covenants or other compliance terms to be met;
• whether the Company has at any time breached any such covenants or terms;
• whether the reorganization or the IPO has resulted/would result in such a breach; and
• whether any consents or permissions are required under the terms of any indebtedness for the Company to complete the IPO.
12.15. Please discuss your exposure to foreign exchange rates. In addition, please indicate to what extent the Company hedges foreign currency exposure. Please discuss any sizable historical impact.
12.16. Please discuss in detail historical and current provisions. To what extend are these underfunded?
12.17. Please discuss in detail all off balance sheet liabilities.
12.18. Please discuss the practice and policy of intercompany loans or guarantees.
12.19. Please discuss in detail movements in and current and non-current assets and liabilities.
12.20. Please identify and explain any material items in the accounts of a non-recurring, extraordinary or exceptional nature within the last three years.
12.21. What is the biggest financial risk / threat that could impact the Company? How does the Company address it?