1. Due Date and Submission

As per the subject description, this assignment constitutes 20 per cent of the total assessment in this subject. Due date is Monday, 23rd July 2018 by 11pm and presentation to be delivered during class time on Friday 27th July 2018. Assignment should be submitted by using Moodle. Hard copy assignment will not be accepted.

Students are required to complete the assignment in groups of 4 to 5 and students do not have an automatic entitlement to adopt some other arrangements without prior permission from the lecturer.

Each member of the group needs to submit the whole assignment by using Moodle.

No hard copy of the assignment would be accepted.

2. Objective

BAP42A covers a range of important theory and practice of Financial Statements and Investment Analysis. The main purpose of this assignment is to provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and extend their understanding in connection with the financial statements analysis of Australian stock listed companies.

3. Presentation

Assignment needs to submit by using the following guideline:

• Contents
  

• Executive Summary

• Introduction

• Findings (explain the answers of the questions)

• Conclusion

• List of references: Please read reference notes from Moodle.

   

4.  Assessment criteria

In assessing submitted assignments consideration will be given to overall neatness, completeness and quality of presentation, timeliness of submission and demonstrated application of appropriate analysis of financial statements.

5. Assignment Topic

Analysis of Financial Statements of a selected company from the list provided by the Lecturer and Draft a Report incorporating the following points in relation to your selected company.

1. Describe the Core Business activity of the company. Provide full details of its different activities and/or operating segments.

2. Discuss any major changes in financial performance from the chairman’s message or managing director’s review.

3. Calculate the key financial ratios for the selected company based on the consolidated financial statements, for 2016 and 2017.

4. Provide an overall assessment of the company and its future prospects.

Note: 1 A supporting document for Financial Statement Analysis (ratios) is uploaded in the Moodle.

Note: 2 Each group has to select a listed company provided by the Lecturer. A company cannot be selected by two groups. Company selection must be provided to lecturer by week 7 in the class.

6. Plagiarism

Taking another person’s ideas, words or inventions and presenting them as your own without acknowledging your sources (citing or referencing), is plagiarism. Paraphrasing or rewording another person’s work, without acknowledging its source, is also plagiarism. If you are identified with plagiarism assessment mark will be zero.

7. Referencing

Correct referencing is important for two main reasons. The first is to enable the reader to access source material you have relied upon, should they care to. The other is to ensure that you have properly recognized the contribution of the work of others to your assignment. If you do not do this properly, you are engaging in plagiarism—the theft, intentional or otherwise, of the intellectual or creative work of others. UBSS will not tolerate plagiarism. It is therefore important that you understand how to avoid it. It is important that you adopt a consistent, and adequate, referencing system. Please read the referencing notes from Moodle.