ACC10707 会计  Business Analysis and Interpretation 代


ACC10707 Session 2, 2017 Assessment 2
Business Analysis and Interpretation
You are required to calculate key financial ratios for an ASX listed company and its competitor and interpret this information in the context of your allocated competitor company over time.
You will be allocated two ASX listed companies to study for this assessment. You must do your allocated companies in the order they are allocated to you. You canlook up your allocated companies under ‘You/Competitor’ in MyGrades in week 1.
Imagine you work for the FIRST of these companies. The second is one of your company’s competitor.
Your boss has asked you to calculate and assess the company’s key (your boss’s opinion) ratios relative to that of its competitor and provide recommendations for improvement.
The key ratios you need to calculate for your company and your competitor are net profit margin, asset turnover, current ratio, quick ratio and debt ratio. Your boss also wants you to calculate the cash cycles.All workings for ratios and the cash cycles are required.
You focus your analysis on the companies’ 2014, 2015 and 2016 ratios mentioned above firstly in terms of trend changes and also in comparison to your competitors ratios.
In making your assessment consider potential differences between your company and its competitor that could explain divergentresults. Where relevant, these should be noted.(For example, although the companies may compete in some of thesame markets, they may also have different areas of business).
Chapter 8 of your textbook(http://www.wileydirect.com.au/buy/accounting-business-reporting-decision-making-6th-edition/) will give you a background explanation on these ratios and you should in your own words explain the relevance of ratios, benchmarking and also the relevance of yourparticular identified ratios as part of your discussion.
To undertake this task you will need to get some background information on the companies and collect some data to create ratios. Information required is available from DatAnalysis found by following the links from the SCU homepage to the ‘Library’ and ‘Databases’. For the calculation of ratios aspect of this assessment use the ‘Financial Data icon and then across the top, Profit and Loss and also Balance Sheet as necessary.
Since your boss is a busy person and has little time to read lengthy reports, your submission for this task preferably should not exceed 1,000 words. Structure your submission as a very short report that excludes title and contents pages. Ensure you fully reference any non-text book or non DatAnalysis sources of data and information you use in this assessment.
Marks for this task will be awarded in equal weighting for:
·         accuracy of data sourced and calculations performed;
·         effectiveness of communication, including structure, grammar and referencing;
·         understanding of the meaningfulness ofratios
·         ability to validly apply knowledge of ratio trends and meaningfulness of ratios to any recommendations made and that these recommendations are based on logic and evidence
·         Note that your assessment will not be marked if you do not do your allocated companies  

ACC10707 会计  Business Analysis and Interpretation 代
 
Allocated Companies for Assessment 2 for ACC10707 Session 2, 2017.
You will be allocated two companies from this list on MySCU in Mygrades by end week 1. You cannot choose your own companies.
You must complete the assessment task requirements on the companies in the order they are allocated to you in MyGrades.
 

APE	AP Eagers Limited
AHG	Automotive Holdings Group Limited

 

WES	Wesfarmers Limited
WOW	Woolworths

 
 

KMD	Kathmandu Limited
ORL	Oroton Group Limited

 

SFH	Specialty Fashion Group Limited
NBL	Noni B Limited

 

BLD	Boral Limited
CSR	CSR Limited

 
ACC10707 会计  Business Analysis and Interpretation 代