Important: This exercise is only part of the assignment, so no cover, or conclusion are needed. Word count must not exceed 1700 words. Additional reading material is below this page andattached in the upload: Wagamama statements, profit and loss sheet.

No specific format required other than the tables requested below.

1.   Analysis of Wagamama financial statements

1.1 Interpret financial statements for planning and decision making  

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1.1.1 Analysis of financial statements to assess the financial viability of an organisation. 

You are required to analyse the financial statements provided with this assessment, to demonstrate that you can assess company’s financial viability from its financial statements. This analysis must be balanced across the statements, and carried out in detail, but without the benefit of ratio analysis technique. 

1.1.2 Application of financial ratios to improve the quality of financial information in an organisation’s financial statements 

After the initial analysis just carried out, you are required to apply ratio analysis technique to these company statements, to demonstrate how its application can bring added value to their analysis. It is important that in determining this added value, you fully consider both the advantages and the disadvantages of the technique

o   Calculate ratios and put them in a table (tables are not part of word count), then analyse the ratios to improve analysis of 6.1. Recommendation is to include a couple of ratios, e.g. 2 for profitability and 2 for efficiency. 

1.1.3 Recommendation on the strategic portfolio of an organisation based on its financial information 

The analysis of financial statements is a necessary requirement when deciding what should make up the strategic portfolio of an organisation, as the success of any strategy is dependent on having the correct financial resources to support that strategy. You are required to demonstrate that you can effectively use analysed financial information to ensure the correct support for the correct mix of strategic portfolio elements. make recommendations on the strategic portfolio of an organisation based on its financial information