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1. Assignment Question: The assignment focuses on using financial data
1. Assignment Question:The assignment focuses on using financial data to measure and
assess performance. The financial data may rely on published financial reports and data:•
For comparison, trend analysis and decision-making.• Analysing strengths and weaknesses
of financial data in judgingperformance.TASKSChoose a listed company either on the
London Stock Exchange (LSE) or on the Malta Stock Exchange (MSE). Obtain the annual
reports of the company for the latest two financial years from the company’s website or
other sources:1) Calculate relevant ratios and critically analyse the changes in financial
performance and financial position over the last two years. Relate these changes to the
following areas: profitability, liquidity, efficiency, gearing / capital structure and stock
market performance.2) Explain any problems or limitations of your analysis.3) Based on
your analysis, recommend to a rational investor whether s/he should invest in the shares of
the company you chose for analysis. Explain your reasons.The Business Report is an
opportunity for you to apply some of your learning from the module to your chosen
organisation• Your Business Report must be focused on your chosen organisations. The
main focus of your research must be an analysis / evaluation of the relevant ratios and
concepts studied in this module in the context of your chosen organisations• Your actual
choice of what to research for your Business Report will depend on the access you have to
internal and external sources of information within your chosen sector organisation.• To
produce a successful Business Report you have to evaluate and /or analyse information
from a range of academic, professional and business sources to attach meaning to what you
have found, or when making a judgment or coming to a conclusion3. Presentation• A
Business Report may be presented in whichever format appears to be most suitable for
supporting the analysis, arguments, conclusions and recommendations.• Make sure the
accounting theories and business models you are applying are consistent with your
objectives• Tables, graphs, business reports and charts are a convenient way of organising
your findings, help you analyse data and make it easier for the marker to understand your
findings• Provide evidence of analysis to show that you understand how to link an
organisation’s business activities to its performance.• In the analysis identify weaknesses in
the way and organisation is being run.• Providing recommendations at the end of the
Business Report is a way of demonstrating that you understand the issues affecting the
organisation as how they can be dealt with.4. Assessment Requirements:• The submission
of your work assessment should be organised and clearly structured in a report format.•
Maximum word length allowed is 3,000 words, excluding words in charts & tables and in
the appendixes section of your assignment.2• Student is required to submit a typewritten
document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman or Arial font type, size 12 and
line spacing 1.5.

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  • 1. 1. Assignment Question: The assignment focuses on using financial data 1. Assignment Question:The assignment focuses on using financial data to measure and assess performance. The financial data may rely on published financial reports and data:• For comparison, trend analysis and decision-making.• Analysing strengths and weaknesses of financial data in judgingperformance.TASKSChoose a listed company either on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) or on the Malta Stock Exchange (MSE). Obtain the annual reports of the company for the latest two financial years from the company’s website or other sources:1) Calculate relevant ratios and critically analyse the changes in financial performance and financial position over the last two years. Relate these changes to the following areas: profitability, liquidity, efficiency, gearing / capital structure and stock market performance.2) Explain any problems or limitations of your analysis.3) Based on your analysis, recommend to a rational investor whether s/he should invest in the shares of the company you chose for analysis. Explain your reasons.The Business Report is an opportunity for you to apply some of your learning from the module to your chosen organisation• Your Business Report must be focused on your chosen organisations. The main focus of your research must be an analysis / evaluation of the relevant ratios and concepts studied in this module in the context of your chosen organisations• Your actual choice of what to research for your Business Report will depend on the access you have to internal and external sources of information within your chosen sector organisation.• To produce a successful Business Report you have to evaluate and /or analyse information from a range of academic, professional and business sources to attach meaning to what you have found, or when making a judgment or coming to a conclusion3. Presentation• A Business Report may be presented in whichever format appears to be most suitable for supporting the analysis, arguments, conclusions and recommendations.• Make sure the accounting theories and business models you are applying are consistent with your objectives• Tables, graphs, business reports and charts are a convenient way of organising your findings, help you analyse data and make it easier for the marker to understand your findings• Provide evidence of analysis to show that you understand how to link an organisation’s business activities to its performance.• In the analysis identify weaknesses in the way and organisation is being run.• Providing recommendations at the end of the Business Report is a way of demonstrating that you understand the issues affecting the organisation as how they can be dealt with.4. Assessment Requirements:• The submission of your work assessment should be organised and clearly structured in a report format.• Maximum word length allowed is 3,000 words, excluding words in charts & tables and in
  • 2. the appendixes section of your assignment.2• Student is required to submit a typewritten document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman or Arial font type, size 12 and line spacing 1.5.