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Module 6 Assignment 2 Personal Values
Students are required to form a group to study, undertake research, analyse and conduct
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1 to 10 inclusive. The assignment should examine the main issues, including underlying
theories, implement performance measures used and explain the corporate financial
performance. Your group is strongly advised to reference professional websites, journal
articles and text books in this assignment (case study).
Tasks
This assessment task is a written report and analysis of the financial performance of two
selected listed companies on the ASX in order to provide financial and investment advice
to a wealthy investor. This assignment requires your group to undertake a comprehensive
examination of corporate financial performance based on update financial statements of
the chosen companies.
Group Arrangement
This assignment must be completed IN Group. Each group can be from 2 to maximum 4
student members. Each group will choose two companies and once the companies has
been chosen, the other group cannot choose the same two companies. First come first
served rule applies here, it means you need to form your group, choose two companies
from the list of ASX and register them with your lecturer as soon as possible. Indicate
your group leader when registering your group with your lecturer for assignment
administration and submission. Once your lecturer registers your chosen companies,
they cannot be chosen by any other group. Your lecturer then will put your group on
Black Board to enable you to interact and discuss on the issues of your group assignment
using Black Board environment. However, face to face meeting, discussion and other
methods of communication are needed to ensure quality of group work. Each group
needs to have your own arrangement so that all the group members will contribute
equally in the group work. If not, a Contribution Statement, which clearly indicated
individual contribution (in terms of percentage) of each member, should be submitted as
a separate item in your assignment. Your individual contribution then will be assessed
based on contribution statement to avoid any free riders.
HI5002 Finance for Business Group Assignment T2 2018
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Submission
Please make sure that your group member’s name and surname, student ID, subject name,
and code and lecture’s name are written on the cover sheet of the submitted assignment.
When you submit your assignment electronically, please save the file as ‘Group
Assignment- your group name .doc’. You are required to submit the assignment at Group
Assignment Final Submission, which is under Group Assignment and Due Dates on
Black Board.
Submitted work should be your original work showing your creativity. Please ensure the
self-check for plagiarism to be done before final submission in accordance with
SafeAssign Student Guide in Black Board. As a guide, a similarity score of over 30% is
considered as excessive except in the cases where the similarity is caused by the use of
template provided by the lecturer, references or sources of data. Please note that it takes
48 hours for the self-check report to be available for your viewing.
Always keep an electronic copy until you have received the final grade for the Unit. Please
make sure that you submit the correct file. Any appeal relating to submitting wrong
files after the deadline will not be considered.
Deadlines
Registration of groups and chosen companies: 5 pm Friday, Week 4
Final Submission of Group Assignment: Midnight (23:59 pm.) Sunday, Week 10
Late submission incurs penalties of 5 (five) % of the assessment value per calendar day
unless an extension and/or special consideration has been granted by the lecturer prior
to the assessment deadline.
BACKGROUND
You’re a group of investment analysts who work for a large investment consulting firm
based in Australia. There’s one big institutional investor from overseas that is interested
in investing in the Australian market. You’ve been asked to choose two large companies
operating under the same industry in Australia (the industry you think will have the most
promising future for investment) then evaluate and compare them. Finally make a
recommendation through your Report to the investor which one is more superior
fundamentally.
Create your group’s “business name” under which your group will be providing the
financial advisory services. Choose two listed companies that your group will
investigate/analyse for the purposes of possible recommendation to your client. The group
should obtain all information about the selected companies from this web site:
www.asx.com.au.
Required:
Obtain copies of Financial Statements including Income Statements, Balance Sheets,
and Statement of Changes in Equity, Cash Flows Statements and Notes for three (3)
financial year 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. Your group can download these
documents from the suggested web site using the firm’s code (example, BHP- for BHP
