Evaluate students’ understanding and ability in collecting financial data and applying various financial analysis techniques to assess a company’s financial position in order to identify where improvements are needed.

Objective:
The main objective of this assignment is to evaluate students’ understanding and ability in collecting financial data and applying various financial analysis techniques to assess a company’s financial position in order to identify where improvements are needed. In addition, it aims at evaluating students’ ability to apply an appropriate software to prepare and analyse financial statements and to provide recommendations for the selected companies and investors.

Brief:
The assignment should provide a comprehensive financial analysis for the selected companies using various financial analysis techniques such as graphs, common-size analysis and financial ratio analysis including DuPont analysis.
Your final report should include the following:
i) Analysing the following aspects of the selected firms’ over two years:
1. Analysing liquidity
2. Analysing assets management efficiency
3. Analysing solvency or leverage
4. Analysing profitability (including DuPont analysis).
5. Analysing market value ratios
ii) Evaluation of the selected firms’ cash conversion cycle (CCC). iii) Common-size analysis.
iv) A description of the overall ratios trend and what it implies for current and future financial performance of the selected companies.
The assignment should have the following structure:
– Introduction (objectives and significance of the study; background of the selected company used as a case study)
– Literature Review (review at least five studies)
– Methodology (sample, techniques measures, variables … etc)
– Data Analysis
– Findings and Discussion
– Conclusion and Recommendations
– References
– Appendices (if needed)