Reference no: EM132166406

Assignment Task

As an MBA student you are interested in investing in the shares and debentures of public limited companies. As a prudent investor you need
to critically assess the value, to a shareholder or debenture holder, of the information in the financial statement.

You are required to:

Take the most recent published financial statement of your organisation or an organisation that you are familiar with and:

Critically appraise what you see as the financial objectives of the organisation and discuss how that satisfies your personal objectives.

Critically appraise the role played by an accountant in ensuring the achievement of the financial objectives.

Critically evaluate the contents of Income statement, Balance sheet and the Cash flow statement as well as the information gathered by the stake holders from such statements.

Critically assess the performance of the company by using appropriate accounting ratios and investment appraisal methods.

Analyse the relationship between the performance of the company and of its current share price.