ACC10707: Business Analysis and Interpretation - Business Analysis Assignment

Internal Code: MAS4320

Business Analysis Assignment:

Your boss has asked you to calculate and assess the company’s key (your boss’s opinion) ratios relative to that of its competitor and provide recommendations for improvement. The key ratios you need to calculate for your company and your competitor are net profit margin, asset turnover, current ratio, quick ratio and debt ratio. Your boss also wants you to calculate the cash cycles. All workings for ratios and the cash cycles are required. You focus your analysis on the companies’ 2014, 2015 and 2016 ratios mentioned above firstly in terms of trend changes and also in comparison to your competitor's ratios. In making your assessment consider potential differences between your company and its competitor that could explain divergent results. Where relevant, these should be noted. (For example, although the companies may compete in some of the same markets, they may also have different areas of business).