Posted: September 13th, 2017

Corporate Financial Reporting

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

The requirements qre the following : 

“Either taking Tesco PLC’s, British Telecom PLC’s or Admiral Group PLC’s Financial Statements, answer the following questions.
In order to answer the questions below, you will need to access the last two years financial statements of Tesco PLC (www.tesco.com), British Telecom PLC (ww.BT.com) or Admiral Group PLC (www.admiralgroup.co.uk) or you can access FAME.

Question 1

Critically discuss three internal users and three external users of accounting information within your chosen company (Tesco PLC, British Telecom PLC or Admiral Group PLC)
Your answer should include not only the users but their needs, requirements and the importance of the financial information for their key decision-making.
(30 Marks)

Question 2

Critically discuss the primary objective and five secondary objectives of your chosen company (Tesco PLC, British Telecom PLC or Admiral Group PLC)
Whilst analysing these objectives critically provide evidence of their success or even failure over a three year period (2011 – 2014).
(30 Marks)

Question 3

Using Profitability, Efficiency, Financial and Investor ratios, from FAME on your chosen company (Tesco PLC, British Telecom PLC or Admiral Group PLC), analysing any areas of strength or perceived weaknesses that you have identified from 2011 – 2014.
An analysis of each ratio is required along with a benchmark of the results to the previous year together with suggestions of improvement or reasons for decline.
(40 Marks)”

It should be approximately 900 words for question 1, 900 for question 2 and 1200 for question 3.