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Individual Assignment Instructions
For this assignment, you are expected to select a company and three competitors from the same
industry and prepare an analytical report in which you will critically evaluate, analyse, discuss
and comment on the key issues in the financial appraisal. You can select a company from your
own industry.
You will be expected to use the latest financial statements of the companies.
The report will make reference to scholarly research and explicitly address the following:
– An analysis of the current business and financial health of your company. You are
expected to employ financial ratios and the Altman Z-score to examine the financial
health of your chosen company in comparison to its competitors.
– A research evaluation and critical analysis of the industry sector and a financial analysis
of three other companies in the same sector.
– You can benchmark base on previous years’ data.
– A critical appraisal of the financial strengths and weaknesses of your chosen company
compare to the listed competitors.
– A critical evaluation of the financial techniques (i.e., ratio and the Z-score) applied in the
analysis.
– Recommendations suitable for your company
– A reasoned conclusion and summary of your findings.
– Use charts bar graphs etc., to visualize your findings.
The report will be assessed base on the financial techniques employed and a critical discussion of
the subject literature, not on a “right” conclusion.
Report (100%) (Main body) should not materially 2,200 words, excluding bibliography /
references, appendices and tables.
Detailed calculations used in the report should be documented in an appendix, with the results in
the main body.
Submission Date: Feb1, 2019 at 10p.m
