Assessment 1

This assessment will be made of eight steps. This is where we are given the opportunity to explain to the reader various areas of the company we have been given for this assessment. Using the details of what the firm does and what our firm’s financial statements reflect we will be able to give and understanding of what is expected.

There are some key points in this assessment that need to be considered.

  1. Find the company’s latest annual report and look at what the firm does, gain an understanding of what the firm’s financial statements are saying.
  2. Using the last four years of financial statements input into the spreadhseet provided and restate these financial statements ensuring that the operating and financial activities are separated.
  3. The last requirement in this is to claculate key ratios for the firm.

The eight steps of the assessment are as follows:

Step 1 – Writing down some ideas, refl;ections and reactons to reading the Preface and Chapter 1 of the Study Guide

Step 2 – Writing down some ideas, refl;ections and reactons to reading the Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of the Study Guide.

Step 3 – Identifying company,posting on blog background information on company and its industry and commenting on other people’s blogs.

Step 4 – Inputting company’s financial statements into spreadsheet

Step 5 – Restating firm’s financial statements

Step 6 – Writing down some ideas, refl;ections and reactons to reading the Chapter 6 of the Study Guide.

Step 7 – Involves calculating some ratios of the firm and its econmic profit

Step 8 – involves providing and recieving feedback to three other students on their draft assessment.

2 thoughts on “Assessment 1

  1. Feedback From: Maria Alejandra Cifuentes Moreno, https://mariaaccounting.wordpress.com
    Feedback To: Iris Onvlee, https://irisonvlee11091961.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/assessment-1/?fbclid=IwAR28LbI0-1burCbBB5ce2kUICHvN-lQESUlPjSGd9nWKxcKq1YW1QfckHvI
    My Comments
    Step 1
    KCQs You had very nice ideas about the fundamental analysis of the financial statements. I think you understood what we are supposed to do in this subject and could gather great ideas on how to approach the financial statements. It is very clear for you what is expected from us to do in this subject and the frameworks we should use.
    Step 2
    KCQs You could gather information about how a firm adds value and I like the way you explain it. You also had cleared the types of strategies and assessing the strategy of a company. I saw that you mentioned the accrual concept, but I think you could have explained with more examples. In chapter 3 you could retell the accounting history in a very nice way, was very easy to follow and you also mentioned some of the formulas and the approach to understand them
    Step 3
    Background information on company
    Comments/KCQs
    Comments on other’s blogs I was very impressed for the way that you took Step 3, very amazing work, you could take the drivers and explained them in an excellent way. I loved that you included graphs for the share price in the company. I cannot say much about it as it is very well presented. Many ideas gathered together to have a excellent analysis of the company. Maybe you could have included some news, but I see you really dig deep into your firm
    Step 4
    Input company’s financial statements I see that you did a good work, not many comments as it seems all in good place. Maybe you could just have removed the earnings per share as we are not going to use in the classification. But the rest seems good. One very nice thing you did was put together the share of profits in associates and joint ventures.
    Step 5
    Restated Income statement
    Restated Balance sheet
    Commentary & discussion with others I see you have linked all cells, you have included all items, but it does not balance yet. I would recommend you check that the tax has been placed in the correct place and you have used the correct amounts as well, the other income should be in operating income and not in operating expense. Also remember to portion the revenue into interest income and finance costs. As for the balance sheet I see that you did not have any problem with it, and you have the check of NOA equals NFO*Equity.
    Step 6
    KCQs This step had a lot of understanding on what to do in the assessment and how to approach it. How to understand what we have to do. It was nice to read this part as it was very clear the explanation of leverage, efficiency and profitability and how you comment about them
    Step 7
    Calculation of ratios Not done yet
    Overall ASS#1 Very good

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