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Financial Position

Analysis of financial position

Current assets

Current assets at the end of fiscal 2011 totaled 1,862,617 million yen, for a 168,176 million yen (9.9%) increase year on year.

Notes and accounts receivable – trade decreased by 158,777 million yen. This was mainly because of sales of installment sales receivables at SOFTBANK MOBILE.

Marketable securities increased by 73,788 million yen year on year. This was mainly from the transfer of shares of Yahoo! Inc. that were previously recorded as investment securities under fixed assets, to current assets. In February 2004, one of the Company's U.S. subsidiaries entered into a loan involving a portion of the proceeds from a forward contract under which its Yahoo! Inc. shares are expected to be delivered in August 2011. Because the subsidiary intends to deliver these shares in accordance with the settlement of the forward contract beginning August 2011 or within one year, the corresponding shares of Yahoo! Inc. were reclassified to current assets.

Other current assets increased by 67,435 million yen year on year, primarily from increases in derivative assets and accrued revenue included in other current assets. A derivative contract (“collar transaction”) was concluded with regard to the above-mentioned shares of Yahoo! Inc. to limit the risk from market price fluctuations of those shares for fiscal 2011 until the repayment. However, with the remaining period until the repayment having become less than one year, the corresponding derivative assets were reclassified to current assets during fiscal 2011.

Property and equipment, net

Total property and equipment increased 162,745 million yen year on year, primarily on a 315,955 million yen increase from new acquisitions of telecommunications equipment. Moreover, an adjustment for reflecting changes of the accounting standard for asset retirement obligations adopted from April 1, 2010 resulted in an increase of 10,595 million yen.

Intangible assets, net

Total intangible assets decreased 32,041 million yen year on year. This was mainly because of a 61,530 million yen decrease resulting from regular amortization of the goodwill recorded when SOFTBANK acquired SOFTBANK MOBILE and SOFTBANK TELECOM.

On the other hand, software increased by 39,957 million yen as a result of new acquisitions of telecommunications equipment.

Investments and other assets

Total investments and other assets decreased by 106,030 million yen year on year. This was mainly because of a 72,612 million yen decrease in investment securities due to the transfer of shares of Yahoo! Inc. to current assets, a 43,509 million yen decrease in deferred tax assets, and a 32,930 million yen decrease in other assets due to the reclassification of derivative assets related to the shares of Yahoo! Inc. to current assets. Meanwhile, an increase of 43,021 million yen was recorded for investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and affiliated companies due to additional investments made in Renren Inc.*1 and investment in PPLive Corporation*2 among others.

Current liabilities

Current liabilities at the end of fiscal 2011 totaled 1,644,408 million yen, for a 265,529 million yen (19.3%) increase year on year.

Accounts payable-other and accrued expenses increased by 110,012 million yen year on year. This was mainly the result of an increase of 177,038 million yen in equipment-related payables, while a decrease of 75,000 million yen came from the payment of additional entrustment for debt assumption, at SOFTBANK MOBILE.

Accounts payable – trade increased by 34,702 million yen year on year. This was mainly due to an increase in purchases of mobile phones for resale.

The current portion of long-term debt increased by 27,142 million yen year on year. Reclassifications were made from corporate bonds under long-term liabilities in the amounts of 53,500 million yen for the 25th Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond, 60,000 million yen for the 27th Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond, and 15,000 million yen for SOFTBANK TELECOM's 2nd series Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond, as the redemption dates came to be within one year. Borrowings at one of SOFTBANK's U.S. subsidiaries were also reclassified to current liabilities as the redemption dates came to be within one year. On the other hand, payments of 54,400 million yen in total were made for the redemptions of the 22nd Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond and the 24th Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond.

The balance of commercial paper at the end of fiscal 2011 totaled 25,000 million yen (recorded as 0 yen at the end of fiscal 2010).

Short-term borrowings increased by 19,948 million yen year on year. This was mainly due to an increase in short-term borrowings at SOFTBANK.

Long-term liabilities


Interest-bearing debt

Long-term liabilities totaled 2,131,699 million yen at the end of fiscal 2011, for a 11,674 million yen (0.6%) increase year on year.

Long-term accounts payable increased 217,601 million yen year on year. The increase chiefly represents the recording of a scheduled payment of 200,000 million yen as long-term accounts payable. This amount is scheduled to be paid to Vodafone International Holdings B.V. and Vodafone Overseas Finance Limited (hereafter “the Vodafone Group”) in April 2012, in relation to the transaction with the Vodafone Group which was carried out in December 2010.

Long-term debt decreased by 191,760 million yen. This was mainly because of SOFTBANK MOBILE's ongoing repayment of its SBM loan,*3 and the elimination in consolidation of the long-term loan receivable acquired by SOFTBANK in December 2010 from Vodafone Overseas Finance Limited, which was long-term debt owed by SOFTBANK MOBILE to Vodafone Overseas Finance Limited, and the long-term debt of SOFTBANK MOBILE. On the other hand, there was an increase in SOFTBANK's long-term borrowings and SOFTBANK conducted a new issue of corporate bonds (31st to 35th Unsecured Straight Bond).

On the other hand, the reclassifications were made from long-term to current liabilities for corporate bonds in the amounts of 53,500 million yen for the 25th Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond, 60,000 million yen for the 27th Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond, and 15,000 million yen for SOFTBANK TELECOM's 2nd series Unsecured Straight Corporate Bond, as the redemption dates came to be within one year. Payments of 47,625 million yen were also made for the accelerated redemption of Euro-denominated Senior Notes due 2013. In addition, long-term borrowings at one of SOFTBANK's U.S. subsidiaries and SOFTBANK MOBILE that came to be payable within one year were reclassified to current liabilities.

Total equity

Total equity was 879,618 million yen at the end of fiscal 2011, for a 84,353 million yen (8.8%) decline from the end of fiscal 2010. While retained earnings increased 179,205 million yen, totaling 222,277 million yen at the end of fiscal 2011, minority interests came to 259,662 million yen, for a decrease of 233,301 million yen. This was primarily due to the elimination in consolidation of 300,000 million yen of minority interests caused by SOFTBANK's acquisition of class 1 preferred stock series 1 issued by BB Mobile to Vodafone International Holdings B.V. On the other hand, there were increases in minority interests of 41,346 million yen from the recording of earnings by Yahoo Japan and 24,839 million yen from a change in the scope of consolidation, with the conversion of SB Asia Infrastructure Fund L.P. from an equity method affiliate to a consolidated subsidiary.*4

[Notes]
  • *1Oak Pacific Interactive was renamed Renren Inc. in December 2010.
  • *2Synacast Corporation was renamed PPLive Corporation in April 2011.
  • *3The funds procured for the acquisition of Vodafone K.K. were refinanced in November 2006 via a whole business securitization program.
  • *4This change reflects the adoption of Accounting Standards Codification Topic (ASC) 810, Consolidations, formerly SFAS No.167, Amendments to FASB Interpretation No.46 (R) (SFAS 167) applied at certain overseas subsidiaries of SOFTBANK in the United States of America.

Consolidated balance sheets

(Millions of yen)
  2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
ASSETS
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents 377,521 490,267 457,644 687,682 847,155
Marketable securities 6,744 3,678 2,784 3,981 77,769
Notes and accounts receivable - trade 583,973 887,723 858,085 816,551 657,774
Merchandise and finished products 76,898 58,119 42,321 37,030 49,888
Deferred tax assets 108,995 105,850 93,021 74,290 90,908
Other current assets 121,240 105,497 115,316 109,467 176,902
Allowance for doubtful accounts △27,938 △68,389 △48,858 △34,560 △37,779
Total current assets 1,247,433 1,582,745 1,520,313 1,694,441 1,862,617
Property and equipment, net
Land 27,748 23,443 22,576 22,402 22,883
Buildings and structures 89,445 75,781 71,577 68,183 74,868
Telecommunications equipment 694,785 744,038 738,968 706,283 840,839
Telecommunications service lines 92,235 86,062 79,638 72,983 68,856
Construction in progress 71,778 45,576 37,477 34,634 55,663
Other 53,862 54,365 50,711 46,218 50,339
Total property and equipment 1,029,853 1,029,265 1,000,947 950,703 1,113,448
Intangible assets, net
Goodwill 1,032,927 974,436 956,731 900,768 839,238
Software 200,616 224,180 226,132 208,916 248,873
Other intangibles 46,168 39,693 39,246 42,702 32,234
Total intangible assets 1,279,711 1,238,309 1,222,109 1,152,386 1,120,345
Investments and other assets
Investment securities 381,885 297,886 186,311 221,003 148,391
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and affiliated companies 105,537 167,112 133,792 149,025 192,046
Deferred tax assets 157,784 126,888 158,229 152,654 109,145
Other assets 108,650 116,697 164,971 142,663 109,733
Total investments and other assets 753,856 708,583 643,303 665,345 559,315
Total assets 4,310,853 4,558,902 4,386,672 4,462,875 4,655,725
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities
Short-term borrowings 278,658 209,339 321,236 208,308 228,256
Commercial paper 5,000 25,000
Current portion of long-term debt 108,963 291,773 318,296 284,053 311,195
Accounts payable-trade 195,168 187,279 160,340 158,943 193,645
Accounts payable-other and accrued expenses 415,561 364,451 352,171 451,409 561,421
Income taxes payable 33,070 35,079 21,363 100,484 115,355
Deferred tax liabilities 7,104
Current portion of lease obligations 18,049 69,771 88,241 109,768 131,306
Other current liabilities 88,434 83,013 87,936 65,914 71,126
Total current liabilities 1,142,903 1,240,705 1,349,583 1,378,879 1,644,408
Long-term liabilities
Long-term debt 2,151,783 2,031,857 1,760,859 1,730,110 1,538,350
Long-term accounts payable - other 26,393 47,541 265,142
Liability for retirement benefits 16,702 16,159 16,077 15,558 14,414
Allowance for point mileage 43,787 43,810 41,817 47,215 41,947
Lease obligations 74,964 241,496 233,314 224,484 199,770
Deferred tax liabilities 50,136 41,978 28,796 30,483 26,582
Other liabilities 87,948 94,172 131,428 24,634 45,494
Total long-term liabilities 2,451,713 2,469,472 2,212,291 2,120,025 2,131,699
Commitments and Contingent Liabilitie
Equity 163,310 187,423 187,682 188,751 188,775
Cash receipts for new stock subscriptions 2
Additional paid-in capital 187,669 211,741 212,000 213,069 212,510
Stock acquisition rights 3,181 120 289 476 703
Retained earnings △19,271 △91,744 △51,270 43,072 222,277
Treasury stock - at cost △194 △206 △215 △226 △240
Accumulated other comprehensive income
Unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities 122,619 80,914 31,334 43,864 34,921
Deferred gain on derivatives under hedge accountin △26,996 △11,823 25,117 14,528 11,224
Foreign currency translation adjustment 28,810 7,438 △30,554 △32,526 △50,214
Total 286,130 383,863 374,383 471,008 619,956
Minority interests 430,107 464,862 450,415 492,963 259,662
Total equity 716,237 848,725 824,798 963,971 879,618
Total liabilities and equity 4,310,853 4,558,902 4,386,672 4,462,875 4,655,725
[Note]
  • *The content of this page is based on information included in the ANNUAL REPORT 2011.
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