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financial analysis and management.
Financial Analysis and Management Assignment Brief
Please get hold of the financial performance of the Boeing and Airbus annual report 2013 online.
Business Report Format
Kindly include the following in this assignment:
Analysis , tables, graph sand charts, diagrams
Arguments
Conclusions
Recommendation
Background to Boeing and Airbus
Executive Summary of the report
Summary on the Chairman and CEO statement
Identification of key stakeholders
People with interest
Air Bus – Government ownership
Air Bus – Private investors
Boeing – Private investors
Customers – Airlines such as Key people, employees with job security/discrimination/bonuses/increase. Also Society at large, such as useless fuel, cleaner engine, end of life plane
People who produces the engine manufactures/supplies
Analysis of the disclosure regime
What information have they disclose?
Combat discrimination
Owners only?
Society?
Supplies?
A comparative analysis of Boeing and Airbus
Use the data to interpreter the analysis
Boeing and Airbus……Financial Results 2013
Some basic Ratios : ROCE, ROI, Operating Profit Margin, Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, Debt-Equity, Inventory Days, Receivable Days, Interest Cover, EPS, PER, Dividend Cover.
Data required: Revenues, Cost of Sales, Operating Profit, Interest, After-Tax Profit, Earnings per share, Current Assets, Inventories, Receivables, Non-current Assets, Current Liabilities, Non-current Liabilities, Shareholders Funds, Long-term Debt, Dividends, Share Price .
Advice on client improvement
What information would people like to see in the report
Information on level of pollution
Pollution reduced information
Safety feature of aircraft
Any further consideration
Link the analysis of the annual report with the stakeholders needs
Information that may be of better use to the shareholders and stakeholder
CONCLUSION
Appendix
Valuable comment
Dollar and Euro comparisons such as weakness, competitiveness, advantages and disadvantages
How low and high the rates are
Efficient buying
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MODULE TITLE: Financial Analysis and Management
PROGRAMME: MBA
ASSESSMENT TYPE:
1. Your question is as follows:
1. As a consultant, you have been asked to report upon the financial performance of Boeing and Airbus from the annual reports. You are required to select the Annual Reports of each of these two companies for the same year and your Annual Reports should have been published in the past five years.
2. With your consultancy report you are required to give advice upon the level of disclosure that each of these two companies have provided in the publishedannual report.
3. Critically examine whether the needs of key stakeholder groups have been sufficiently addressed in the Annual Reports that you have selected and how the reports could be improved for the benefit of these stakeholders
2. Presentation
• AConsultants reportmay be presentedinwhicheverformatappearstobemostsuitableforsupporting theanalysis,arguments,conclusionsandrecommendations.
• Students should ensure that thetheoriesandbusinessmodelsyouareapplying areconsistentwith yourobjectives.
• Tables,graphsandchartsarea convenientway oforganising yourfindings and helping youto analyse data. They also makeiteasierfor themarkertounderstandyourfindings and so you are recommended to use diagrams effectively but not excessively.
• Provideevidence ofanalysis toshowthatyouunderstandhowto linkthe Annual Report with the stakeholders needs.
3. Assessment Requirements:
• The submission of your work assessment should be organised and clearly structured.
• Maximum word length allowed is 4000 words, excluding words in Charts &Tables and in the Appendixes section of your assignment.
• Student is required to submit a type-written document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman font type, size 12 and line spacing 1.5.
• This assignment is worth 100% of the final assessment of the module.
• Indicate any sources of information and literature review by including all the necessary citations and references adopting the Harvard Referencing System.
• Students who have been found to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically considered to have failed the entire module. If found to have breached the regulation for the second time, you will be asked to leave the course.
• Plagiarism involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously.
6. Learning Outcomes tested in this assignment
Upon successful completion of this module the students will be able to:
1. Undertake investigative analysis and evaluation of a variety of financial problems and/or financial opportunities, which may be faced by an organisation within its life cycle based on the Annual Report.
2. Critically reflect on the objectives of the corporation, and the role of informationin achieving these objectives.
3. Evaluate advantages and disadvantages of alternative corporate decisions in the context of various disclosure regimes and how these contribute to organisational growth.
4. Demonstrate effective decision making and judgement on matters related to prioritising disclosure choices for business projects and/or for the allocation of resources to disseminate information within an organisation.
5. Understand the inter-relation of different decision making in the context of how to substantially increase shareholder interest in the company.
6. Conceptually and practically understand the concept of stakeholder needs by examining why a firm may prefer to distribute company information into the public domain.
7. Notes on Plagiarism
Plagiarism is passing off the work of others as your own. This constitutes academic theft and is a serious matter which is penalized in assignment marking.
Plagiarism is the submission of an item of assessment containing elements of work produced by another person(s) in such a way that it could be assumed to be the student’s own work. Examples of plagiarism are:
• The verbatim copying of another person’s work without acknowledgement
• The close paraphrasing of another person’s work by simply changing a few words or altering the order of presentation without acknowledgement
• The unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work and/or the presentation of another person’s idea(s) as one’s own.
Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be deemed to be plagiarism is the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the student’s own.
Plagiarised work may belong to another student or be from a published source such as a book, report, journal or material available on the internet.
8. Harvard Referencing
The structure of a citation under the Harvard referencing system is the author’s surname, year of publication, and page number or range, in parentheses, as illustrated in the Smith example near the top of this article.
• The page number or page range is omitted if the entire work is cited. The author’s surname is omitted if it appears in the text. Thus we may say: “Jones (2001) revolutionized the field of trauma surgery.”
• Two or three authors are cited using “and” or “&”: (Deane, Smith, and Jones, 1991) or (Deane, Smith & Jones, 1991). More than three authors are cited using et al. (Deane et al. 1992).
• An unknown date is cited as no date (Deane n.d.). A reference to a reprint is cited with the original publication date in square brackets (Marx [1867] 1967, p. 90).
• If an author published two books in 2005, the year of the first (in the alphabetic order of the references) is cited and referenced as 2005a, the second as 2005b.
• A citation is placed wherever appropriate in or after the sentence. If it is at the end of a sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire block quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself.
• Complete citations are provided in alphabetical order in a section following the text, usually designated as “Works cited” or “References”. The difference between a “works cited” or “references” list and a bibliography is that a bibliography may include works not directly cited in the text.
• All citations are in the same font as the main text.
Examples
Examples of book references are:
• Smith, J. (2005a). Dutch Citing Practices. The Hague: Holland Research Foundation.
• Smith, J. (2005b). Harvard Referencing. London: Jolly Good Publishing.
In giving the city of publication, an internationally well-known city (such as London, The Hague, or New York) is referenced as the city alone. If the city is not internationally well known, the country (or state and country if in the U.S.) are given.
Examples of journal references are:
• Smith, John Maynard. “The origin of altruism,” Nature 393, 1998, pp. 639-40.
• Bowcott, Owen. “Street Protest”, The Guardian,October 18, 2005, accessed February 7, 2006.