Analytical Report on Financial Appraisal of a Company and its Competitors

Analysis of Business and Financial Health of the Chosen Company

For this assignment, you are expected to select a company and three competitors from the same industry and prepare an analytical report in which you will critically evaluate, analyse, discuss and comment on the key issues in the financial appraisal. You can select a company from your own industry.
You will be expected to use the latest financial statements of the companies.
The report will make reference to scholarly research and explicitly address the following:
• An analysis of the current business and financial health of your company. You are expected to employ financial ratios and the Altman Z-score (specific formulas for different types of companies) to examine the financial health of your chosen company in comparison to its competitors. • A research evaluation and critical analysis of the industry sector and a financial analysis of three other companies in the same sector (using various RRU library database). • You can benchmark based on prior years' data. • A critical appraisal of the financial strengths and weaknesses of your chosen company compared to the listed competitors. • A critical evaluation of the financial techniques (i.e., ratio and the Z-score) applied in the analysis. • Recommendations suitable for your company on how they can achieve the changes you feel are necessary. • A reasoned conclusion and summary of your findings. • Use charts bar graphs etc., to visualize your findings.
The report will be assessed base on the financial techniques employed and a critical discussion of the subject literature, not on a "right" conclusion.