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FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
GSBS6200: Accounting and Financial Management
Trimester 1 2017
Group Project
Weighting: 30% of overall assessment
TASK OBJECTIVES
Apply theory in practice.
Conduct a financial statement analysis of a real world company.
Demonstrate report writing and oral presentation skills.
INTRODUCTION AND GUIDELINES
Your group is a team of research analysts employed by a publicly listed organisation on the Australian
Stock Exchange. Your group is responsible for analysing quantitatively and qualitatively the past
performance of the organisation with a view to improving for the future. Once the analysis is complete
you will then (as a group) be required to write a report that interprets and critically evaluates the
analysis and provides recommendations for the business moving forward. Your interpretation and
recommendation must be justified.
You will need to appoint a group leader who will be responsible for submitting the assignment
paperwork. Once your communication channels have been set up, formulate and agree on a Pre-
Project Action Plan. The Pre-Project Action Plan details problems and issues that may arise and
how the group will manage them. This is to be completed, and submitted in class or via an email to
the lecturer by Week 5.
The second task will be to view the Australian Stock Exchange website and choose one listed
company. Once you have chosen the company it needs to be approved by the course
coordinator/lecturer after which you can commence the group project. You cannot choose the
same company as another group and company choice will be on a first come, first served basis.
Once you are in a group and have selected a company you can begin your analysis. The final report
(excluding tables, formulas and reference list) should not exceed 3,000 words in length and your
audience is the board of directors of your chosen company.
Your group must also complete a Group Diary (Appendix 3 – refer to Blackboard). The Group Diary
should be submitted in class or via email to the lecturer in week 10.
The project must be attempted and completed on a group basis. Whilst this is a group project, you
are not permitted to copy the analysis of another group. Your submission will be checked for
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plagiarism using Turnitin and/or manual means and any suspected cases of plagiarism will be sent to
the SACO (Student Academic Conduct Officer) for investigation.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
Arrange the first group meeting and submit a Group Processes/Pre-Project Action Plan in
class or via email to the lecturer (due: week 5 lecture day).
Final Report and Group Diary Due Date: Week 10 (9 April). A late submission penalty will
be imposed if these are not received by due date.
Submit Report to Turnitin (electronic copy of report with cover sheet). Submit Group Diary in
class or via email to lecturer.
Submit only one group project per team to Turnitin
The Faculty cover sheet for group assignments must be used and must be signed by all students in
the group.
REQUIREMENTS
Required:
1. Visit the website of your chosen and approved company and obtain the annual reports for the
previous three years (2014, 2015 & 2016). Note: Financial statements are contained within
the annual reports. Read the Director’s and/or Chairman’s report and locate other qualitative
information about your chosen company (for example, a podcast of the most recent AGM).
This will give you an idea about the background of the company as well as any highlights. It
may also be useful to see if your company has been reported in the media. The financial
reports will give you an internal perspective and any media reporting will give you an external
perspective from the media’s point of view.
2. Perform a Trend Analysis of the main items from the income statement (statement of financial
performance) and balance sheet (statement of financial position) for 2014, 2015 and 2016.
3. Perform a complete ratio analysis for the financial statements for 2014, 2015 and 2016.
4. As a result of your analysis and research on the company write a report in Microsoft Word
which brings all of the above analysis together in a professional format. Your analysis should
cover both financial and non-financial factors and include benchmarking against a
comparable company or industry averages. Your audience is the board of directors of your
chosen company.
Your report should include the following:
Cover Sheet (signed and dated by all group members)
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Body of the Report:
- Information about the company and industry and other relevant background
information
- Trend Analysis, Interpretation and Recommendations
- Ratio Analysis (profitability, efficiency, liquidity, market performance),
Interpretation and Recommendations
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- Overall Analysis, Interpretation and Recommendations (Note: Ensure that you
bring the individual parts of the analysis, interpretation and recommendations
together as a summary of the business and its performance overall)
- Limitations of your analysis
Conclusion
References
Appendices (all calculations should be included in the appendix)
Please note your report must be referenced (APA referencing style is to be used).
Note: Your report should be typewritten, double-spaced and page numbered.
As a guide you should include (but not be limited to) the following in the body of the report:
Discuss the nature and overall strategy of the business.
Discuss any challenges or opportunities the business faces into the future. As an example
there may be external factors such as economic impacts, social trends etc. that may present
a challenge or an opportunity moving forward.
Identify any areas that you consider to be strengths or weaknesses for your company in its
operations based on your analysis. Explain why you have identified these areas as strengths
or weaknesses and interpret them. Discuss how the company could improve on the
weaknesses or build on the strengths by providing a recommendation. You must be specific
in your discussion, do not generalise.
For example, a weakness may relate to a growth in debt, an increase in expenses relative to
revenues etc. Also look outside the area of accounting as you may find that a strength is in
the growth of customers due to a new marketing campaign. It is the group’s responsibility to
look at all aspects of performance and identify what is appropriate for your company. Every
company is different and each company will have its own strengths and weaknesses.
Your analysis needs to be a critical evaluation, rather than a report that merely restates the
results of the analysis. The written report and interpretation needs to be justified with
reference to the analysis. Your comments should be specific to the company you have
chosen, not generalisations.
As an example it would be insufficient to state that the current ratio increased - there also
needs to be an interpretation and recommendation associated with the analysis. For
example, the current ratio may have increased due to an increase in inventory, and the
reason for the increase in inventory may be a slowdown in sales. In this example, the
increase in the current ratio does not necessarily mean that liquidity has improved as
inventory may not be liquid. You may conclude that, given the reduction in sales, the
recommendation to the business should be that it needs to reduce its levels of inventory.
Where possible, analyse what is and is not selling, to work out which types of inventory need
to be reduced.
You also need to critically evaluate the limitations of your analysis. The limitations should be
discussed with reference to your company, not generally.
Do not include calculations in the body of the report; they should be included in the appendix
by cutting and pasting each part of the analysis (in Microsoft Excel) into the Microsoft Word
document.
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Marking Criteria:
REPORT
Criteria
Marks
Excellent Satisfactory Poor
100%-75% 74%-50% 49%-0%
Presentation
of the report
2 The report is well-
presented with consistent
use of formatting, headings
and supporting
tables/graphics.
The formatting and layout
of the report is
inconsistently presented.
Inconsistent use of
formatting, headings and
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supporting tables/graphics.
The formatting and layout
is poor indicating a lack of
professionalism.
Either appropriate
headings are not used
and/or there is a lack of
formatting and/or there is
a lack of supporting
tables/graphics.
Referencing 2 Referencing appropriate
with no errors or
omissions.
An adequate attempt at
referencing was made with
minor errors or omissions in
the style of referencing.
Lack of proper
referencing. Either
references are missing or
the referencing style has
not been applied
accurately.
Quality of
writing
2 Professional language is
used which communicates
meaning with clarity and
fluency.
No errors in spelling,
grammar and punctuation,
or sentence structure.
Adequate language which
conveys meaning with
some clarity. However in
parts the report is
inconsistent in its flow from
one idea to the next and
there are errors in
expression.
Errors in spelling, grammar,
punctuation, sentence
structure, and/or
organisation
Poor language impedes
meaning because of
errors in usage and
disorganisation of
information.
Consistent errors in
spelling, grammar,
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punctuation, sentence
structure and/or
organisation.
Application of
analysis
models
4 Analysis models are
accurately and
appropriately applied with
respect to:
-trend analysis
-ratio analysis
Calculations are accurate
and without errors.
Analysis models are
appropriately applied with
respect to:
-trend analysis
-ratio analysis
However, minor errors are
shown in calculations.
Little or no attempt is
shown to apply analysis
models to given business
situation with respect to:
-trend analysis
-ratio analysis
Many errors are shown in
calculations.
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Interpretation/
Recommend-
ation based
on
analysis of
the results
5 Analysis and interpretation
of the results is
comprehensive and
thorough. All issues are
adequately addressed.
Interpretation and
recommendations are
accurate, logically linked to
the results and supported
by judgement.
Analysis is specifically
addressed to the company
chosen.
Analysis and interpretation
of the results is present,
however it lacks depth.
Majority of the issues are
addressed.
Interpretation and
recommendations are
mostly correct, somewhat
relevant to the results and
mostly supported by
accurate judgement.
Analysis is specifically
addressed to the company
chosen, however at times
generalisations that could
apply to any company are
used.
Analysis and
interpretation is minimal
and/or does not address
the requirements of the
assignment.
Interpretation and
recommendations are
lacking or supported by
errors in judgement.
Analysis is too general
and not specific to the
company chosen.
Logical
arguments
3 The argument is logically
correct and clear with good
justification.
Justification is clearly
provided and used as
evidence in the argument.
The argument seems
logically correct but is
unclear in some areas as a
result of no evidence, a
lack of evidence or
inconsistent evidence that
is used to support the
argument in the report.
The argument is not
logical, unclear and/or
based on incorrect
information.
There is a lack of
evidence in supporting the
arguments put forward in
the report.
Critical
evaluation of
the limitations
of financial
statement
analysis
2 Evaluation of the analysis
methods adopted, or data
used, is critical, thorough,
complete and in context to
the company analysed.
Limitations are clearly
stated and relevant to the
chosen company.
.
Lim
Evaluation of the analysis
methods or data is present
but some important aspects
are not fully addressed.
Limitations not all relevant
to the chosen company or
some limitations are
general in nature.
Little or no evaluation is
presented.
Major limitations of the
report are missing and not
addressed or limitations
are mostly general in
nature.
Total Marks 20
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RUBRIC FOR ORAL
PRESENTATION
Marks Excellent
100%-75%
Good
74-65%
Satisfactory
64-50%
Poor
49%-0%
Organisation of Material 1
Information is highly structured
Easy to follow information
presented in sequence
Loose organisation,
presentation difficult to follow
at times
Little to no structure and
sequence of information
Delivery 2
Informative well- paced delivery
Good use of pausing
Effective, interesting delivery
Well-paced delivery with
good use of voice, tone,
diction and pausing
Able to hear presentation
Some pausing
Inaudible, spoken very
quickly
No pausing
Visual aids 1 Excellent visual aids
Excellent detail on slides
Good visual aids
Good detail on slides
Too many slides, or an
insufficient number of slides,
Too much detail on slides or
insufficient detail on slides
limiting the effectiveness of
the visual aids
No visual aids
Knowledge of subject matter 2 Superior understanding of information
presented with a clearly stated
purpose
Strong understanding of
material presented
Thorough well-stated
purpose
Limited understanding of
material presented
Limited clarity of purpose
Uncomfortable with
information presented or
no grasp of information
presented
Accuracy of written content 2 Excellent figures, graphs and/or tables
Excellent information presented on
slides
Good figures, graphs and or
tables
Good information presented
on slides
Missing and/or incorrect
information
Adequate but limited results
presented on slides
Misleading, confusing or
incorrect information
Poorly presented
information on slides
Engagement 2 Excellent posture and eye contact
Moves with ease
Constantly engaged and entertaining
Good posture and eye
contact
Often engaged with ease
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Limited eye contact
Reads directly from notes at
times
No eye contact
Reads directly from notes
Presentation Score /10
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