Financial Analysis of a Public Listed Company in Bursa Malaysia

Background and Future Prospective of the Selected Company

You are required to select a public listed company in Bursa Malaysia. Download the latest FOUR (4) years Financial Statements of the selected company. The selected company must be from the manufacturing, industrial, oil and gas, trading or services sector.

a) Company’s background, future prospective and development.

b) List the Board of Directors and independent directors of the company (print out the evidence and insert it in the appendix). Has the ratio of board independency (Number of independent directors divided by board size) changed over the past FOUR (4) years? Interpret your observations.

c) Analyse and critically comment the company performance and trend based on the financial ratios of the selected company for the past FOUR years. (Note: Please use at least THREE financial ratios for each group of ratios as mentioned below)

i) Liquidity

ii) Assets management

iii) Financial Leverage

iv) Profitability

d) From the Bursa website download the most recent financial statements of the strongest competitor of your earlier chosen company. Using the Du Pont Method, calculate the relevant financial ratios (most recent year only) for this competitor and do a peer analysis comparing the performance of your company with this competitor for this latest year.

e) Format, citation and sources of references based on Harvard style of referencing.