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ASSESSMENT BRIEF
COURSE: Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Accounting
Unit: Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Accounting
Unit Code: B01BAVA320
Type of Assessment: Assessment 3 – Group assignment (3-4 students in a group)
Length/Duration:
2500 words (word count excluding executive summary, table of
content, references, appendix & tables)
Unit Learning
Outcomes addressed:
1) Understand the basic techniques of financial analysis and business
valuation.
2) Explain the linkage between industry analysis, strategic business
analysis, accounting analysis, financial analysis and prospective
analysis.
3) Demonstrate inter-relationships between differing business
disciplines: financial accounting, financial management and strategic
management.
4) Demonstrate work-ready disciplinary knowledge with the application
of all three major aspects of financial accounting, financial
management and strategic management.
Submission Date: Friday 4pm Week 10
Assessment Task:
The group (3-4 students) assignment is aimed at developing your
practical skills in financial statement analysis and valuation. It is also
designed to enhance teamwork, and develop your analytical and
communication skills. Details of the assignment will be discussed in
week 2
Total Mark: 40 marks
Weighting: 20 %
Students are advised that any submissions past the due date without an approved extension or
without approved extenuating circumstances incurs a 5% penalty per calendar day,
calculated from the total mark
E.g. a task marked out of 40 will incur a 2 mark penalty per calendar day.
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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:
Students are required to work in a group of 3-4 students in the performance of the written report.
Students must register for their group with the lecturer during the first three weeks of the trimester
and are not allowed to change group members afterward.
Topic for Group Written Report:
Every group for this assignment is required to select the most cu
ent published annual report of a
LISTED COMPANY in AUSTRALIA at https:
www.asx.com.au/asx
esearch/listedCompanies.do.
Please avoid selecting any financial services organisations such as commercial banks, trust etc. as they
do not fit with the aims of this assignment. You are required to write a report to evaluate company’s
performance as a business analyst, by using relevant resources (latest financial statements (annual
eports), company’s website and relevant research materials). The prescribed textbook of this unit
should also be utilised.
Hint: You have to be clever and pragmatic in selecting the company. It has to be large,
substantial and must have the available information for desk research. You are required to
explore and collect information on the company to complete this assignment.
Then, answer ALL the following questions in your written group report:
a) Company background and mission
) Common size & horizontal analysis of key financial statements. Various types of trend, bar &
pie charts can be useful in the presentation of the analyzed results in your assessment
submission. Students are expected to make very
ief but pertinent comments regarding the
findings. Comments could be related to the causes and significance of the increase or decrease
of important variables such as PPE assets, intangibles, sales, EBIT, net income, capital
structure. You should use at least 5-6 years of data to give a reasonable analysis.
c) Cash Flow analysis. You would need to provide some commentary around what trends are
emerging in the part of the Cash Flow Statement called cash flow from operations as a lot of
the good news and bad news of a company is revealed there. Investors often look at this
section before they bother with an income statement.
a. You may want to take cash flow analysis further by including Free Cash flow to the
Firm (FCFF) and Free Cash flow to Equity (FCFE) numbers. Have a look at Appendix A
for more details.
. If you look at page 248 of your textbook, you will see Palepu refe
ing to FCFF as free
cash flow to debt and equity claim holders. He articulates FCFE as free cash flow to
equity claim holders.
XXXXXXXXXXPlease refer to Appendix A for further clarification regarding Free Cash Flow.
d) Liquidity Analysis. This would entail as a minimum a cu
ent ratio and a liquid ratio together
with relevant commentary on receivables and payables and stock management, etc.
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e) Income Analysis. This would include an EBIT margin analysis, a gross profit margin analysis (if