Reference no: EM132957873
Accounting and Managerial Finance
Assignment - Analyzing the Annual Report
In this assessment, you are asked to conduct a financial analysis of a listed company of your choice. It must meet the following criteria:
1. It should be listed on a stock exchange.
2. It should NOT be a financial/ banking company because finance companies' financial statements are very different than other service/ manufacturing, etc.
3. Must be a recent annual report, i.e. 2020.
4. 2-3 students may be working on a same company, but everyone is required to submit their own report, which is written individually and NOT as a group.
5. The report must be available in English language.
6. Should be able to identify a close competitor.
Task 1: Conduct segment analysis of the chosen company and its competitor
Task 2: Explain what is conceptual framework. Explain any three Assumptions/ Principles/ Constraints and illustrate their applicability by showing examples from the chosen case company.
Task 3: What is meant by financial position? What information in the balance sheet can be used to assess a company's solvency?
Present the detailed analysis of company's liquidity, solvency position, and profitability position. Your analysis must include reference to all four financial statements including cash flow statement
Task 4: Based upon historical data of the company, forecast the budget for the chosen company and prepare the forecasted Profit and loss account.
Task 5: Explain the meaning and relevance of Job Order Costing and Absorption Costing and critically analyze and illustrate their applicability to the chosen company.
For getting higher grade, please follow following pre-requisite:
1. Relevant theories must be elaborated.
2. Both in-text and end-text referencing should be there in the paper. Do not use Investopedia/ Wikipedia, but use books, journals, research papers, newspaper articles, company publications.
3. Extract as much information as possible from the annual reports. Mention page number within in-text referencing
4. Wider research should be visible. At master level, you should refer at least 15 sources in an assignment.
5. Remember to show all your calculations in detail. Only relevant data and tables and relevant from spreadsheets should be included within the body of the analysis.
Learning Outcome 1: Synthesized key principles, contemporary trends, and tools in accounting and corporate finance to maximise corporate value while reducing the firm's financial risks, using literature, undertaking research, and advancing knowledge.
Learning Outcome 2:The critical development of leading-edge approaches to the critical analysis of corporate finance structure and analysis of corporate financial statements using tools and techniques that are applicable
Learning Outcome 3:A critical assessment of the application of contemporary models and theories to decisions on corporate financing and using internal and external financial information to critical appraise business performance.
Learning Outcome 4:A critical evaluation of the economic benefits of various types of financing on businesses in complex international environment.
Attachment:- Analyzing the Annual Report.rar