Posted: April 8th, 2015

Assessment 1: GROUP ASSIGNMENT (50% of overall module mark)

Assessment 1: GROUP ASSIGNMENT (50% of overall module mark)

Instructions:
The group is required to choose a public limited company
(plc.) from within the industry that forms its members’ field of study.  Using the latest available annual reports and accounts, the company website, and other sources such as the business and financial press, the group must gather relevant information about the plc. and monitor its operations and progress over the next three months.

The group is required to progressively study the industry’s and the plc.’s business environment over the next three months in order to assess the impact that this will have on the chosen company over the later half of 2015 and into 2016.

Using the results of the above research, the group is required to construct and submit a ‘fact sheet’ and a ‘Business Report’ as instructed in the following two tasks

TASK 1 (weighting 20% of the assignment)
Acting as business investment advisors, produce and submit a ‘FACT SHEET’, addressed to existing and prospective investors and designed to give information and answer possible questions on the business performance of the chosen plc. as at the end of April 2015.
?    (Guidance: At a minimum, the ‘fact sheet’, should contain information on: a brief history of the plc.;  the company’s services and market(s); the major shareholders and the current management team; how the company is financed; the company’s financial performance over the last two years; the company’s recent stock market performance. You are encouraged to add further categories of information).

?    The entire fact sheet must not exceed 1,000 words. This includes any appendices or extra information that is attached to the fact sheet.

Assessment Criteria – Task 1

Presentation: (No format is prescribed other than that the factsheet must be appropriate to your audience. You are encouraged to be creative in presenting your material).

Assessment Criteria – Task 1
?    Depth of research and the scope and appropriateness of material included in the fact sheet. (LO2)
?    Overall depth of knowledge and understanding of business information in terms of investor needs. (LO2)