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Quantitative Finance and Financial Markets
Assignment - A critical analysis of the Quantitative Finance and Financial Market condition of a Public Limited company and its bank.
Learning Outcome 1: Apply complex quantitative tools in financial markets.
Learning Outcome 2: Critically evaluate the impact of changes to financial models using leading-edge research and advanced scholarship.
Learning Outcome 3: Compute valuation analysis for financial markets instruments and critically interpret the results of the analysis for end users.
Learning Outcome 4: Critically evaluate the input's variables and their outputs in the use of quantitative tools in financial markets.
Tasks
Question 1. You must present all financial statements and do an overview of each statement. This means to explain in words their key financial variables. In this task, you must explain which form of business organization they belong to and why. Present the company's shares trends in the last 6 months on a graph and explain in words.
Question 2. You must present to which financial market they belong. Please explain which type of markets, they are part of. Why? In this task, please do the Self-Test on your selected bank.
Question 3. In this task, please calculate the current ratio, acid-test ratio, inventory turnover ratio and Fixed assets turnover ratio and provide substantial comments about the results. What we can say about the results compared to the industry averages. In this part, please do the Benchmarking analysis by comparing your selected bank together with one biggest competitor based on the financial performance. Financial performance can be any financial information from the financial statements. What are the results showing us?
Question 4. Please do the compounding or discounting method for a selected bank. Find the necessary information that will enable you to calculate some predictions of their shared values. What can you say about their values?
Question 5. For the selected bank, calculate the WACC and explain in detail the results. Calculate and interpret the Cost of Capital of the bank selected.
Question 6. What can you say about the Sales Forecast? How much is a trend in the previous years? Analyse and comment. (LO4)
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