Analysis of qualitative information from the annual report

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Question: Choose an Industry and a Company within that said Company.

For example: the title of your coursework could be "A Case Study on the Telecommunication Industry with Vodafone company analysis'.

Please keep it simple, nothing too complicated, avoid financial services firms, maybe in an industry you are somewhat familiar with, and one that has a track record of several years at least. One approach is to look at the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange and choose from there.

You must have the 'Annual Report' of the company for 2 years. The time period for this case shall be for 2 years: 2018-19 and 2019-20. If you are unable to find the Annual Report of any particular year, you can select / forward / rewind another year. Both the years must be consecutive years. Example: It can be 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Additional materials that are expected to research and collect are: Annual Reports of the company, Newspapers, Magazines, Websites articles, industry reports, etc

Kindly use actively the electronic resources, softwares, databases including:

1. Business Source Complete> EBSCOhost

2. Capital IQ

3. SNL

4. Mintel

5. ProQuest

6. Bloomberg

7. Refworks

8. Cite Them Right

9. Datastream

10. Passport

11. Emerald

Needed are:

(1) Introduction and background of the industry and the choosen Industry & Company.

(2) Analysis of qualitative information from the Annual Report of 2 years of the company - including chairperson's statement, director's report, auditor's report, look and feel of the annual reports, photos, graphs and tone of language

(3) Computation of ratios in various groups including profitability, efficiency (activity), liquidity, solvency (gearing), and investment (valuation). Calculation should be done for both the years, for any 2 formula in each ratio group . (Please use formulas at least 10)

(4) Comparative analysis of the financial performance of the company vis-à-vis the industry over 2-year period (using the above calculations and other literature).

(5) Critically evaluate the efficient market hypothesis and provide examples of its application in the chosen industry and company. Show evidence for the arguments for special events like a declaration of good/bad news, launching or discontinuing a new product, change of CEO, expansion, any other "news" and its impact on information and impact on share prices. Provide clear pieces of evidence with dates and original news sources.

(6) Critically evaluate with examples what types of costs and budgets this industry is implementing

(7) Overall, your conclusions and recommendations for the company and industry.

(8) Please provide accurate referencing of materials and effective usage of databases/software.

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