Assignment Question:

Choose the company - ANZ bank

Your group will perform a financial analysis of the assigned company. Every group will work on the allocated company (your group number in Blackboard assigned to you by your lecturer is also your company's number in the assignment question below).

The analysis will consist of ratios, common size statements, and percentage change statements. Financial statements will include balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flow statement.

Refer to the chosen company's website and download the above financial statements and input these statements for the last available two consecutive years into the assignment.

1. Having the company's statements, now you are required to compute the following ratios for the last two financial years: Liquidity Ratios (current ratio, quick ratio, cash flow), and Profitability Ratios (net profit margin, gross profit margin, rate of return on assets, rate of return on shareholders' equity, earnings per share).

2. Based on these ratio values, perform a trend analysis. This means that you are required to perform a quantitative analysis of information contained in a company's financial statements, and include these in your report.

3. Prepare a summary report that includes a basic profile of the company and identifies its chief competitors. Your summary should be in paragraph form using a word processor.

4. Finally, you are required to visit the company's website and critically review the statement on corporate governance. Include in your final report what do you consider are the challenges face the chosen company in relation to ethical behaviour.

5. In your conclusion section, you are required to present a closing statement stating what you have learnt from doing the case study.

Attachment:- Group Assignment.rar