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Financial Models are powering Eskom to re-birth

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    Financial Models are powering Eskom to re-birth

    By Colin Human | News | Comments are Closed | 27 Aug, 2020 | 0

    Hats off to Andre De Ruyter! He is obviously not only incredibly brave, incredibly committed to our country, but is also obviously a very savvy businessman.

    It is therefore no surprise that Eskom has embraced financial modelling to assist it to navigate through its current crisis.

    I came across this article (see below) and felt like applauding!

    As I have commented many times, effective, efficient, flexible financial models allow (savvy) businessmen to make smart, informed decisions.

    Well done Andre!!

    I wish you all success.
    Colin Human
    Goalfix Financial Modellers

    NESS REPORT ENERGY

    Eskom to sell assets to plug its debt hole

    JOHANNESBURG  – Eskom is to dispose of some of its insurance and finance non-core assets in a bid to raise capital and reduce the power utility’s mounting debt.

    Eskom group chief executive Andre de Ruyter said yesterday that the utility would sell the assets to finance the R450 billion debts that investors and ratings agencies have identified as the government’s biggest contingent liability.

    De Ruyter said Eskom was currently unable to service the debt from its balance sheet as sales volumes had declined at least 1 percent a year against a 30 percent increase in operating expenditure in five years to reach R151bn, forcing it to borrow more money.

    He said the sale of businesses such as Eskom’s insurance unit Escap and its insurance structure would free more money to plug the debt.

    “It’s an opportunity for us to also understand how we can save by diversifying and potentially exiting from that business,” De Ruyter said.

    “We also have a finance corporation and this business is in a process of being sold. We are waiting for bids from a number of interested parties.

    “To the extent that we receive any monies from the disposal of non-core assets, the proceeds will primarily be applied to the reduction in debt.”

    De Ruyter said Eskom’s current financial modelling showed that the utility could achieve independent financial sustainability at a significantly reduced debt balance of R200bn, a closing cash balance of R30bn and Ebitda margin of 35 percent.

    He said Eskom had also developed an “aggressive turnaround plan” for Rotek to repurpose it, but there were no plans at this point in time to sell it.

    Rotek Industries specialises in engineering consultancy, construction, plant operations and general maintenance services for all power generation equipment and associated power infrastructure.
    In March, Eskom’s acting chief procurement officer Solly Tshitangano identified Rotek as one of the entities that bled the utility millions of rand by deviating from procurement guidelines during the continuing construction of the Kusile and Medupi power stations.

    De Ruyter said the services that Rotek was offering were “incredibly important” to Eskom, particularly for generation and centreline which is involved in the refurbishment of turbines. “We don’t intend to sell Rotek but we are going to be optimising its asset base as well as its cost base. What we are talking about is a refocusing of our activities. Rotek for some time has been trying to access external markets outside of Eskom,” he said.

    “We think that has been a distraction, it has resulted in Rotek resources not always been available to fulfil Eskom requirements.” He said most of the work and resources that were outsourced by Rotek would be focused internally.

    “Rotek does have a very large number of temporary employees in its staff complement, and we are going to be re-looking at how we can engage with those employees in order to reduce the cost base of Rotek,” De Ruyter said.

    Group executive for human resources Elsie Pule said the power utility had reduced its staff number by 1690 from last year and had a further exit through the voluntary separation packages.
    “We continue to reduce our numbers through natural attrition. We will be demonstrating the reduction of the number of employees by the end of this financial year further than this,” Pule said.

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    Colin Human is one of South Africa’s leading financial modellers with extensive business experience. A chartered accountant, he has occupied various senior management positions in both public and private companies across a wide range of industries from Aluminum, Building, Ceramic Tiles and Engineering to Granite, Education, Hotel and Corporate Finance. He is currently a director of a number of companies and CEO of GoalFix (Pty) Ltd.

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