Financial Analysis

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Scenario:
You are to select a PLC that has a listing on any recognized stock exchange of your choice and
agree this with the module tutor. Once this is done, you are required to answer the following
questions:

Assignment Task 1 (45 Marks), Maximum word count: 1500 words

  1. Executive Summar summarizing the component of the report
  2. Provide a brief introduction of your chosen organization. (5 Marks)
     provide a brief introduction of your chosen organization
  3. Critically examine the importance of various functional areas within organizations,
    emphasizing the significance of Finance as a critical functional area within your chosen
    organization and how a strategic integration can be achieved? (10 Marks)

 The report to functions in that organization
 organizational chart and the relationship it has with finance department –
 how do they link what is the relationship and how is strategically integration can
be achieved how integration between the functions

  1. You are required to look into the financial statements of your chosen organization for the
    year 2018-19 and explain the following: (30 Marks)
    2018 & 2019
     you can also get this information from the reports in your annual statements
    financial statements .

 you are required to look into the financial statements of your chosen organization
for the year 2018 and 2019

a. Analyze and interpret the profit and loss statement, identify the major expenses &
incomes, compare with previous year, & recommend actions for the upcoming
year. You are also required to compare and interpret the P&L statement in the
light of cash flow statement. is there any growth is there any decrease?
(Posting Profit but having negative cash flow )

b. Analyze the Balance sheet and critically discuss the financial position of your
chosen organization and recommend future actions.
 analyze how are the data the working capital
 Working capital ,
 borrowing within short term ( can be paid in a year ) and long terms ,
 retained earnings (how much is the profits that it is retaining) ,
 dividends (is it sharing?)
c. Explain, Calculate and interpret the following ratios for your chosen organization
for the years 2018 and 2019:
 Current ratio
 Quick ratio
 Gearing ratio
 Return on capital employed
 Interest cover ratio
 Net profit margin ratio.

 are there any dividends read those reports they will give you a lot of
answers to motivate and then you come up also with these ratios and the
formula are there in the a slight as well and in the recording and

Assignment Task 2 (50 marks), Maximum word count: 2000 words

  1. Explain the process and significance of budgeting process. Critically evaluate various
    methods of budgeting and how they differ from each other? As a Finance Manager,
    which budgeting approach would you employ and why? You are also required to
    examine the impact of technology on the budgeting process and see how technology can
    be best used in the process to enhance and speed up the budgeting process? (15 Marks)

 evaluate various methods of budgeting and how they differ from each
other
 bring in the approaches you recommend (e.g bottom up and top bottom )
 examine the impact of technology on budgeting process ( artificial
intelligence machine learning – automation – cloud computing/counting )
 is there anything to do with automation ? if it’s not there then they are still
lagging behind ,and state what are the disadvantage the pros and cons for
them to be lagging behind , also talk about cloud computing and counting

  1. Acquisition and utilization of funds are two of the major decisions taken by an
    organization which requires careful analysis. You are required to explain and evaluate
    various sources of finance available to a business. Once this is done, you must examine
    and justify 15% Net Asset Investment decision taken by your chosen organization in
    order to upgrade the technology. Which sources of finance do you believe would be
    appropriate for your chosen organization and why? (20 marks)

 Talk about technology , bring in even the issues of if they’re upgrading maybe
you just motivated to say they are lagging behind in terms of more automation
/ issues surrounding clouds cloud computing and cloud accounting which we
have a route we want to take

 you can even bring in the issues of sustainability if you want it depending on how
you approach the question or how you are seeing the reports in the I don’t want
financial statements

  1. Explain why it is important for organizations to measure their performance. Discuss the
    different types of performance management tools and techniques which can be deployed
    in large global companies for evaluating its suitability across a range of business and
    economic environments. (15 Marks)
     Reasons to measure organization performance
     Discuss different types of performance management tools and techniques (
    benchmarking – balanced scorecards – the value chain analysis
     In PV we have a AR accounting rate of Britain we have internal rate of return and
    profitability index and index you know which can be deployed in large global
    companies for evaluating its suitability across range of business and economic
    environments good
  2. Presentation and Harvard Referencing. 5 Marks.

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