Reference no: EM133623746
Homework: Business Finance- Time Value of Money, Investment Appraisal and Analyzing Companies' Financial Management
For this part of your homework for the module and the objectives we are aiming to achieve with it are:
1. Ensure you are able to identify and collect key companies' operational and financial information to help you start the analysis of their performance
2. Ensure you are able to collect, analyze and draw appropriate conclusions from published company information
3. Assess your ability to calculate the cost of capital (debt, equity and weighted average) for a company using publicly available information
Task I:
You are required to submit ONE word or pdf file answering the requirements of the three parts detailed below.
For this part of the homework, considering you are being asked to essentially collect information from publicly available sources, your ability to correctly reference the sources of that information from which you collect the information is essential. As such, marks will be allocated for the following two elements: 1 - the accuracy of the information collection and its application/analysis; and 2 - the correct referencing using Harvard Referencing methodology.
Task II: Company Key Information
For the company you calculated the ratios for in the first part of the homework, answer the following questions:
A. What is the main activity(ies) of the company?
B. What is the volume of trade of the company? (not trade of shares in the capital markets, but the company's trade in its activity)
C. What is the market capitalization of the company?
D. Who are the company's Chairman, CEO and Finance Director?
E. What is the company's market share? (*)
F. How has that market share evolved over the last five years?
G. Who are the company's main competitors?
H. What are the main products/brands of your company?
I. Is the company significantly dependent on a single product or not?
J. Who are the company's auditors?
Task III: Your company in the News
Identify and list 10 times in the last 12 months where your company was in the headlines (of the press, whether financial or otherwise), and write a brief report (no more than 1,000 words, excluding extracts) with an assessment of who you believe those headlines will impact the future performance of the business.
In the report include:
A. The headline and respective source (including link, if from a website, and clearly indicating the date of the news)
B. A brief extract (no required length) with the key idea(s) of the article
C. A brief assessment with your own views of how you think this will impact the future performance of the company.
While any source of information is acceptable to collect information about your company, part of your learning while at University is to be able to use academic and scientific sources of information rather than merely doing web searches. As such, in order to achieve full marks in this requirement, you need to provide evidence (through the referencing of the sources of news used) that you have used academic databases available through the library.
Task IV: Company Cost of Capital
Required: Calculate the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for your chosen company by using publicly available information.
In order to achieve full marks for this part of the homework, you will to do following two elements correctly:
A. Use the correct formulas and present a reasonable WACC for your company, including all the prior calculations required to arrive at the WACC.
B. Fully reference all sources of reference for the information collected in order to calculate the WACC