Regarding the financial/economic performance section, you should discuss matters relating to the company's financial statements. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following issues. It is recommended that company's financial statement numbers be compared with those of industry averages.

(a) Identify the company's total assets, liabilities and owners' equity.

(b) Identify how much profit was earned by the company's shareholders, on a per share basis, at the end of the financial year.

(c) Identify what is the total number of ordinary shares that have been issued by the company as at the end of the financial year.

(d) Identify how much of this profit the shareholders actually received (in cash), on a per share basis, during the financial year.

(e) Identify the reported dollar amount for the company's ‘Net cash flows from operating activities' for the year?

(f) Identify the companies reported ‘Net cash flows from investing activities' for the year. If it is negative, explain whether, in your opinion, these negative net cash flows represent a potential problem for the company etc.

As a result of reading your chosen company's most recent CSR and/or Sustainability Report, you should discuss matters relating to the company's sustainability practices and reporting in your report. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following issues:

a. Issues such as environmental protection, human rights, supplier diversity, and social and financial inclusion;

b. Aspects of social and environmental performance that the company seems to be particularly focused on improving;

c. Aspects of the company's activities that might be considered to contribute most heavily to environmental pollution/degradation; and steps that are being taken by the company to reduce their impact on the environment;

d. Identify whether the company monitors the social, economic and environmental responsibility practices of organisations within its supply chain, and how and where do they report the results of such monitoring?

e. Any perceived threats and opportunities that the company has identified with respect to its social and environmental performance;

f. The company's corporate philanthropy philosophy and practices, and discuss how and why these are reported;

g. Factors that appear to be motivating the company to produce detailed sustainability performance reports etc.