Comparing the performance of the company

Reference no: EM132842859

Finance for Managers

Company - AO WORLD PLC

A spreadsheet will be added to the assignment tab which will show which company has been allocated to you.

You then need to access the companies' financial statements. A simplified version is available via the database Amadeus which is available to you after signing in with your university details. Search for Amadeus in the university catalogue

search for Amadeus
and choose the Amadeus database, online access
Then click onResource available at amadeus
Log in using your university details
Then enter your company name.
Select the worksheet view at the top of the Global standard format section, you can then open the file in excel.

You must compute the ratios yourself rather use than the ones provided and they MUST be calculated as I have shown in the lecture. You must include the workings.YOU WILL ONLY GET MARKS FOR EACH RATIO IF YOU HAVE COMPUTED THE RATIOS AS SHOWN BELOW.

The ratios you need to calculate are included below. It is these you must calculate. You will not gain any marks for other ratios and will lose marks if you do not calculate these.

Most of the data you will need will be provided in the income statement and statement of financial position in the accounts you have retrieved. You also needend of year market price and number of shares outstanding and these can be accessed by clicking on stock data and then Annual stock data (see below).You need this data to compute the following ratios:
Earnings per share
net income
Number of shares
Price Earnings ratio
End of year share price
Earnings per share

Calculating appropriate accounting ratios prepare a report analysing the performance of and comparing the performance of the company over the last 2 years under the following headings:
a) Profitability,
b) Liquidity,
c) Working capital management,
d) Solvency & risk,
e) Shareholder return,
f) Overall financial performance.

Attachment:- Finance for Managers.rar

Reference no: EM132842859

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