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FINC20018 Managerial Finance - Central Queensland University
The task
• The assignment is designed to assess your understanding of business finance theories and explores a number of areas within the course by applying your learning to a real company. Through this project, you need to be able to demonstrate critical and analytical skills in academic writing, various research synthesising skills and be able to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Please note this is a finance assignment for real business, so make sure you have the appropriate combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Format and referencing
• Response to case study must be in Report Format and include an executive summary, table of contents, introduction, body with suitable headings and sub-headings, conclusion and wide variety of references.
• Report fonts must be either Arial or Times Roman 12 pt and 1.5 spacing for narrative, 16 pt bold for major headings and 14 pt bold for sub-headings.
• Word count is 2,000 words maximum (excluding tables, formulae, reference list and appendices)
• Inclusion of diagrams and tables to support the response is strongly encouraged.
• Proper referencing of all content including figures, tables and narrative using APA Reference system.
Task requirements
The banking sector in Australia is considered to be the most profitable and successful industry in the world. It has also suffered a decade of scandals. On the 23rd September 2020, Westpac was accused for more than 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering law with $11billions worth of transactions. Westpac has agreed to pay a record $1.3 billion fine for the wrongdoing. The market also penalised - Westpac's share price closed at $16.40 on the 23rd and following the allegation announcement it fell to around $16 when the market opened on the 24th, wiping off $1.4 billion of its total market value.
Your task is to undertake a current valuation for Westpac share -
• Apply the various valuation models and relative measures taught in this course to assess whether Westpac share is correctly valued.
• Your analysis should include relevant data to help a prospective investor to decide whether he should invest in this company.
• Your analysis should also include the company's overall sustainability and its performance in environmental risk, social risk, and governance risk.
• Explain all your assumptions used in the valuations and estimations and critical discuss the limitations of your analysis and any other risks that may affect investment decision making.
Attachment:- Managerial Finance.rar