clients should invest in it. Your report should include the following: 1. Business and Strategic Analysis, including • an analysis of the economy, the industry, and the company’s place in the industry; • the company’s competitive and corporate strategy; • the company’s and the industry’s growth potential; • and the implications of all of these for its future profitability. 2. Accounting Analysis, including • a discussion on the company’s accounting policies that are likely to affect the interpretation
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2. Assignment (75% Weightage) Module Title: Financial Statement Analysis Module Code: Level: 7 Academic Year: 2013/14 Semester: One Module Leader: Instructions: See the detailed assignment below. Word Limit: 2,250 words Assignment Details: For two large international organisations trading in the public domain, Norland Managed Services Ltd and CBRE and critically analyse the company’s financial performance covering the following areas: Background to the organisations:
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WRITING A FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS REPORT FOR A POTENTIAL USER The financial analyst should research, analyse and evaluate the company’s consolidated financial results. He/she should then compare such analysis and evaluation with that of a competitor or more working in the same industry group. The competitor should have the similar size (measured by total assets, sales turnover, number of employees, and/or capital employed) of the main company. The competitor should also have the same legal
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Financial analysis (also referred to as financial statement analysis or accounting analysis or Analysis of finance) refers to an assessment of the viability, stability and profitability of a business, sub-business or project. It is performed by professionals who prepare reports using ratios that make use of information taken from financial statements and other reports. These reports are usually presented to top management as one of their bases in making business decisions. Financial analysis may determine
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EFB201 Financial Markets Learning Guide EFB201 Learning Guide 1 Workload Expectations The unit has a two-‐hour lecture with a one-‐hour workshop/tutorial each week. QUT Guidelines are that “Eight to 10 hours per unit per week should be spent outside the classroom reading and working on assignments and
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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 1. Financial statements are used to show the (financial) performance of the company and also used as proof of company performance when sourcing for finance from banks, sourcing for finance /funds from (potential) investors. The financial statements are also used for legal compliance dictated from Government financial regulations and standards particularly for Public Limited Companies. Internally within the company, financial statements can be used for control and tracking
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Daz Ware Gaz Price Justine Williams Managing Financial Principles and Techniques Assignment 1 1. Explain what documents and statements you have consulted. The Group Income Statement (P&L) and the Group Balance sheet were consulted. The following information was extracted. A companies profit and loss account shows revenue, expenditure and the profit or loss resulting in operations for a given financial year. Item 2012 £ M 2011 £M Sales (Revenue) 64539 60455 Cost of Sales (59278)
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financial information upon which the financial statements are based. Because the duality concept requires the clear identification of both the assets of a business and the claims of different parties on those assets in the balance sheet, it is consistent with the criteria of relevance to users of accounting information. The duality concept also provides a “check” (through the balancing requirement) on the reliability of data provided in the main financial statements. It is therefore broadly consistent with
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Operating Profit after Tax FCFF = Free Cashflow to Firm ΔWCR = Working Capital Requirement PPE=Fixed Assets (?) (PPE= Property Plant and Equipment) Investment-> Fixed Assets AT = Asset Turnover TA = Total Assets S = Sales A = Assets E=Equity FCFF=NOPAT+DA+ΔWCR-Investment WCR = AR+Investment-AP Watch out! ΔWCR = -ΔWCR(math) ROA = Return on Assets WACC = Weighted average Cost of Capital CAPEX = Capital Expenditure (further??) ???DuPont analysis: ROE = Net Margin*AT*(Asset/Equity) Accounts
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model of the firm, finance may be thought of as analysis of three primary subject areas. Which of the following groups correctly lists these three areas? A. Capital budgeting, capital structure, net working capital. B. Capital budgeting, capital structure, security marketing. C. Capital budgeting, net working capital, tax analysis. D. Capital budgeting, tax analysis, security marketing. E. Net working capital, tax analysis, security marketing. Difficulty: Easy
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