Posted: June 9th, 2016

Discuss the importance of international trade to the company and its future development.

Assignment 1

Important Instructions

• The assignment must be word processed with an appropriate front sheet.
• Your work will be penalised for poor presentation and incomplete or poor referencing.
• Please refer to the generic grade descriptions for a detailed marking criteria.
• Please use letter type arial or verdana with letter size 12 and double line spacing.
• Appendices should only be used for non-essential supplementary information. The document should be able to stand without appendices.
• Please use small tables and graphs in the text where data is discussed directly above or below the table and/or graph. Please do not include any large tables or complete financial reports in the text or appendices. Avoid descriptive writing, for instance merely repeating figures in the paragraphs.

In completing the assignment below students would be expected to refer to company group reports and accounts, analysts’ and press reports from trade and other journals and relevant theory.

Students will grow in their knowledge and understanding of the subject material as we progress through this module. To this end students are expected to reflect on each week’s learning and apply it to their chosen company using a personal journal function in Nile. Journal entries must be submitted as appendix to the assignment. Students can lose up to 10% of the total available marks where regular thoughtful journals were not kept
The company that you have to analyse is:

Petra Diamonds

Outline and evaluate the international company by commenting on key financial variables and capital structure. Discuss the importance of international trade to the company and its future development.

You should include the following information about the company: