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Assessment brief 010: case study
After several rounds of interview, you are successfully appointed as the CFO of the Company. The Company has enjoyed considerable success in recent years and the board of directors have decided to adopt a growth strategy by making further investment in their current production line and acquiring an existing company in their industry. As the newly appointed CFO of the Company, you are tasked to evaluate the performance of the Company and prepare a report to the board of directors with evaluation of the potential investment opportunities.
The first investment under consideration is to make further investment in their current product, which needs initial investment of £30,000,000 and has a life of 10 years. The finance department appraised some other similar investments before using different investment appraisal techniques. The discount rate is 15% for the Company (Ignore inflation and taxation).
At the same time, the Company plans to acquire another company in the same industry in the near future. However, the board of directors require more information for the potential target. You are tasked with the responsibility of identifying a potential target company and preparing a report to the board of directors justifying the choice of a target company and potential implications from mergers and acquisitions. Required:
Suppose you are successfully appointed as the CFO for ONE of the listed companies below.
As the newly appointed CFO of your chosen company, you are required to write a report to the senior management team - fully referenced, and address the following:
Note: Analyze your chosen financial ratios using information from financial statements. Critically evaluate past five years firm performance using your chosen ratios and discuss the problems and limitations of financial ratios as a tool of financial analysis before make recommendation to the board of directors. Use small tables, diagrams and charts in your analysis and present professionally.
Note: Please present NPV and IRR results using small tables. You need to make decision on which investment appraisal format that you will choose. The project will be based on your chosen company; therefore, you have the flexibility to decide the project using your ESTIMATE. The investment should be £30m, but how the money is invested would depend on the nature of the investment. Sensitivity analysis will be helpful to analyze different scenarios for the appraisal.