Is the company financially on the right track? What are the areas of concern? What would be your advice to the company’s management as a team of financial advisors?

Group project guideline

Objective:
The main objective of this group project is to apply the knowledge you acquired in the class to analyze the financial standing of real companies in Canada.

Tasks:
1) You should form a team of 4–5 students.
2) As a representative, one student from each team should send me an email and introduce team members.
3) Each team will be assigned a Canadian company from TSX Composite Index.
4) You need to evaluate the company’s financial standing using audited financial statements (which can be retrieved from www.sedar.com).
5) Each team should submit a written report (~2000 words) covering the following sections:
– Executive summary
– Introduction: Company’s background, competitors, Industry, Trends, etc.
– Ratio analysis: Calculate and analyze ratios for the company in each ratio category.
o Peer group analysis: Compare the company’s performance with the average of its industry (five big players in the industry)
o Time trend analysis: How the company has performed through time (past five years)

– Discussion: Is the company financially on the right track? What are the areas of concern? What would be your advice to the company’s management as a team of financial advisors?

– Contribution table: Specify each student has done which part (s) of the project.