Financial reporting
The Brief Assignment requirements:
You will be assigned a company to analyse.
Using the 2018 annual reports of the company allocated to you, analyse the financial performance and position of the company from an investor’s point of view using ratio analysis.
You are expected to select and calculate exactly 6 ratios of your choice over each of the last two-year period for this purpose. Explain with reasons whether you will be prepared to invest in this company.
Historical share prices can be obtained at the following web address:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/.
Your solution should be presented in a report format and should include an executive summary and a list of references at the end. All tables and calculations should NOT be included in the main report but as appendices.
Word limit: 1500 words (excluding appendix)
What counts towards the word limits?
• Footnotes, except where these are used ONLY to give references to your sources. The use of footnotes to expand upon points you have made in the body of your report will count towards the word limit.
• Appendices – except where these merely reproduce material from your sources / ratio calculations / tables / graphs / diagrams
• Any additional explanation of terms / glossaries etc. WILL count towards the word limit.
• Any tables pasted as picture (.jpeg for example) will be reviewed by the marker and word count added to the main body of the text.
What does not count towards the word limit?
• Appendices exceptions noted above.
• Brief quotes — about 5 lines is the maximum acceptable for each quote, and you should not have more than 6 quotes in your essay.
• References
How the word limit will be enforced:
Up to 50 words above the limit — no penalty
