Financial Statement Analysis
MAJAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Financial Statement Analysis
Individual Assignment
You are
required to select any two companies of your choice from the same industry,(either
two Local or two International) and critically evaluate a set of published
accounts of these companies for a period of four years. You are
then required to submit a detailed report of the analysis at the end of week
14.
You
must notify and obtain approval for your selected companies from your lecturer
within ONE WEEK of the issue of this assignment.
The
report should cover the following points:
· A brief profile of the companies chosen for the
study.
· A discussion on trend and common size statements
comparing and contrasting the financial performance of the chosen companies.
· Critical analysis of the statement of cash flows of
the chosen companies.
· Critical analysis of the overall financial
performance of the company using additional techniques such as, Z score
analysis, Off balance sheet analysis and SWOT analysis.
Note: All your
calculations to support your arguments should be shown in a separate excel
file.
The paper will be graded taking into account the following points.
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Sr No
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Area / Topic
|
Percentage.
|
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1
|
Grasp
of concepts
Understanding
of relevant concepts.
|
25 %
|
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2
|
Argument/Analysis :
Development
of Argument / Analysis , Detailed discussion on the tasks involved, Critical awareness / interpretation
Application
of relevant accounting tools and techniques& conclusions.
|
40%
|
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4
|
Structure
Logical
flow, Cohesion, Completion and focus of
task/s
|
15%
|
|
5
|
Language
|
5%
|
|
6
|
Information, Research & Referencing:
Variety
of sources used, relevance of sources used
|
15 %
|
INSTRUCTIONS
Your work will
be graded on the following aspects:
1.
This is an individual Assignment
2. The assignment MUST be submitted
on-line (through MOVE) on or before the due date.
3. Your assignment shall reflect the
depth and breadth of your original analyses in a clear and coherent manner.
4. Any reference to authors and other
writers shall be quoted with due acknowledgement in your assignment report
using the Harvard Referencing System. For details of Harvard referencing
style refer the student’s hand book page 40-42 section7.2.
5. This is an individual assignment and
carries a 60 % weighting of the module grade.
6. This assignment follows areportformat
and must be original and creative. An analytical piece of work is
required. The use of ‘cut and paste’ approach will be penalized. It must be
presented in a structured manner, with appropriate cover page, content page,
introduction, body (with appropriate heading / sub-headings), conclusion,
references, page numbered and any required appendices.
7.
Your report should be word processed and
professionally presented. The length of your report should
be of 2000 words (+/- 10%), presented in text of font size 12 with 1.5 line
spacing. Please state the exact word count at the end of the assignment.
8. The cover page should be attached
with the assignment and uploaded through MOVE (on-line. Name of the student,
The Programme, Module Title, Assignment Title and number of words must be
reflected on the cover sheet.
9. All assignments must be adhered
strictly to the deadlines specified by Majan College. Failure to hand in the
assignment for any reason and without prior approval and a valid written
extension from the module tutor will not be marked and will be awarded a grade
G (0) irrespective of the quality of the work. See students handbook page
18-19 section 4.7
10.Unacknowledged use of work of others
(plagiarism) is regarded as a dishonest practice and will be will be penalized.
See the penalties in the student’s handbook page 30-31 section 5.6.
Additional Guidelines
· The Assignment Submission link on
MOVE will be open, a week ahead of the submission date.
· You can submit your assignment
multiple times, till the submission deadline. Note that Turnitin could take
upto 24 hours to produce similarity reports for submissions.
· The last submission, within the
deadline, will be considered as your final submission.
· Assignments should be submitted by
6pm on the day of the deadline. There is a grace period until midnight to allow
for any technical difficulties, but any assignments submitted after this will
be counted as late. Technical problems will not be accepted as an excuse for
submitting after the day of the deadline.
· The similarity percentage of your
final submission will be one of the factors considered, for assessing the
originality of your assignment. However, the decision to report an assignment
for plagiarism is taken by the Lecturers, who mark your assignment.
· The Lecturers will consider a number
of factors such as Assignment type, Part of the assignment where similarity
occurs, Nature of similarity etc., along with the similarity
percentage of your assignment, to assess the originality of your assignment.
Therefore, similarity percentage would not be accepted as a
basis for disputing academic judgments regarding plagiarism.
· Note that the similarity percentage
of your submission can change till the submission deadline, if the submissions
of other students have similarity to your assignment. Therefore, the similarity
percentages are not final, till the assignment submission is
closed.
· You are required to
tick to confirm the statement: “I confirm that this assignment is my own and
all sources have been acknowledged. I understand that the use of
other people’s work or ideas without acknowledgement is plagiarism and could
result in failing the assignment”. You will not be able to submit the
assignment without ticking this box. For further information see section
4.3.8 in your student handbook.
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