Using the most recent annual report for your company

Short answer company assignment 20%

[Using the most recent annual report for your company answer each question below]

Name:

Student number:

Company name:

 

1. OVERVIEW: Give an overview of your company by filling in the following table with key points:

Company name
Industry sector
Products and/or services
Who are the customers
Head office location
Business locations

 

2. INCOME STATEMENT: Take a screenshot of the Income Statement and include it here.
   • Find the largest revenue on the Income Statement and fill in the table.

Name	2020 $m	2019 $m	Difference	Horizontal Analysis
Write the name of the revenue here

 

• Find the largest expense on the Income Statement and fill in the table.

Name	2020 $m	2019 $m	Difference	Horizontal Analysis
Write the name of the expense here
Vertical Analysis

 

• Find the profit for the year on the Income Statement and fill in the table.

Name	2020 $m	2019 $m	Difference	Horizontal Analysis
Write the name of the profit here
Vertical Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

• Overall Analysis: Give an overall analysis of the performance of the company.

[The financial statements tell a story about the business. What is the story for the profit/performance for this company? Look at the start of the annual report, and newspaper sources, research the overall performance for the year. What are the specific factors that have impacted on the company profit this year, compared to last year? Summarise your answer in two-three paragraphs. Include in-text citations.]

 

3. BALANCE SHEET: Take a screenshot of the Balance Sheet and include it here.

Choose Receivables or Inventory from Current Assets. Make sure it also has an accompanying note.

Fill in these two tables:

Name	2020 $m	2019 $m	Difference	Horizontal Analysis
Receivables OR Inventory (delete one of these)
Total Assets
Vertical Analysis

 

	Numerator (top number)	Denominator (bottom numbers)	Answer
Receivables turnover ratio OR Inventory turnover ratio

 

4. FINANCIAL STATEMENT NOTES: Find the accompanying note for the asset chosen in Question 3 (Receivables or Inventory). Take a screen shot and include it here.
   • Summarise the information found in this note.
   • The qualitative characteristics of accounting help to make accounting information more useful. Choose one qualitative characteristic and give the definition in your own words. Then explain how the notes to the financial statements help to achieve this characteristic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: Find a 2020 or 2021 Australian newspaper article relating to your company and COVID19. Take a screenshot of the article and copy it into your answer. If the article is very long you may include just the first section of the article.

Australian newspapers include smh.com.au, theaustralian.com.au, theage.com.au, afr.com. You can access these for free on the UTS library databases.

Using the information in this article, explain the impact the current COVID19 pandemic is having on the company and the industry it operates in. Your answer should be between two – three paragraphs long.

 

6. ETHICS: Each answer should be between one-two paragraphs long.
   • Explain what ethics means in a business context.
   • “There is no ethics in business!” Research, reflect and write your own response to this comment. There is no right or wrong answer to this question. This will be marked on your ability to clearly develop and support your answer with your ideas, examples and research.
   • Explain one ethical issue for your company. You may like to do some research to find this answer. Try to give a specific answer that relates to your company. Avoid general answers that would apply to every company.

 

7. REFERENCE LIST: only list the resources you have actually used.

• Annual report, news article, company website
• List to be presented in alphabetical order of author’s surname or organisation; indent every second line of reference; go to CANVAS for citation and referencing rules)
• You must be able to explain why you have used each reference and how you found this source. You may be asked this by your teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignment requirements

 

Format:  Short answer

• Clearly answer each question using the short answer format taught in BABC001 (refer to CANVAS for more information)
• TEEL paragraphs and bullet points (refer to CANVAS for more information)
• All work submitted must be written in your own words, using paraphrasing techniques taught in BABC001
• Check Canvas for “Writing Feedback” based on previous semesters assignment feedback.

 

Written presentation: You need to include:

• An answer to each question
• Reference list – all answers should include citations; all citations should be detailed in the Reference List
• Please ensure your assignment is presented professionally.
• Images – you may include images from the Annual Report to help explain your answer. All images must be labelled and cited as follows:

Figure 1: Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (Woolworths)

Source: Woolworths Group 2018, p. 66

Words: 1000 – 2000 words (the word count is a guide; marks will not be deducted for going over or under the word count)

Due: Sunday at the end of Week 9

• Submit your assignment to Turnitin via CANVAS
• You must submit a word document. You are not able to submit PDF documents

 

Turnitin Guidelines: less than 25% similarity. If your Turnitin percentage is more than 25% please check the reasons. If it is due to using these question templates and your reference list, this is not a problem and no changes need to be made. If it is due to sections of your answers poorly paraphrased or copied, then you need to re-write your answers and re-submit.