BU7006 Strategic Financial Management Assessment Brief | University of Chester

Assessment Task of BU7006

Requirement:

As a financial manager (consultant), investigate to evaluate the strategic financial position of the company assigned to you. 

Prepare a business report for the company's board of directors, which critically analyses its performance over the financial years 2020 to 2024 (using all financial and non-financial data available) and recommends any action the board should take.  

Your report should also include the following:

• Computation and critical analysis of a selection of financial ratios for the financial years 2020-2024 (Consider the list of ratios discussed in the class). Your critical analysis should also include the application of any appropriate model on the ratios to assess the financial position of the company.
• The underlying reasons for the company’s financial performance? (Identify and discuss significant strategic developments that might have affected the company’s financial position.)
•  The critical assessment of the external factors that might have affected the performance of the company and the relevant business sector since 2020.
• What do you consider to be the major financial performance challenges and the opportunities of the company in the foreseeable future?
• Analysis of any new plans and strategies by the company under investigation. 
  (Appendices are not required and must not be provided.) 

Learning Outcomes of BU7006

This assignment will show that you can:

• Deploy appropriate accounting theory and tools to the critical evaluation and interpretation of financial reports.
• Master critical awareness of how management accounting has developed tools and techniques to improve strategic decision making and performance management.
• Deploy appropriate accounting theory and techniques to the evaluation and analysis of performance measurement.
• Critically evaluate strategic and stakeholder analysis using appropriate accounting theory and tools.