1006GBS/GBS106: Why Money Matters, Trimester/Study Session 3 2022
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1006GBS/GBS106: Why Money Matters, Trimester/Study Session 3 2022
Assessment Item 2: Financial Decision-Making Assignment
Marked out of 40; Worth 40% of the overall assessment for the course
Due date: Monday, 9 January 2023, 4pm Brisbane time
This assessment is designed as an authentic assessment activity in enabling students to develop skills to evaluate the financial position and the overall performance of an organization within its industry from different perspectives.
Instructions – read these carefully!
- Use a new Word document. At the start of your Word assignment document, insert your name (Surname, Given Name), and your student number.
- In your Word document, type in your answers in addressing each question. Label questions numbers, e.g. 1), 2), 3), … in presenting your answers. There is no need for you to re-type the questions.
- Please refer and adhere to word limits for your answers that are specified in each of the questions.
- Students must use their own words when presenting relevant information taken from the provided annual report, instead of just copying and pasting.
- Assignment must be submitted as a word doc. or docx. Assignment submitted as a pdf. or any other file will not be accepted and will receive 0 marks .
- Students must submit the completed work through the submission link provided under Assessment 2 folder in the Learning@Griffith course site.
- You are required to keep a hard copy of your submitted assignment to re-submit, in case the original submission is lost for some reason.
IMPORTANT: As this is an individual assessment item, students must work on their own and present their individual assignment submission. If found to have cheated, your submission would receive a mark of zero for this assessment item. University uses text-matching tools to detect academic cheating, collusion and plagiarism.
You recently gained a short-term internship working for the financial analyst division of the Coles Group. Your manager is about to present to the board of shareholders governing the Group. He has asked you to refer to the company’s latest annual report (i.e. Coles Annual Report 2022*) and other relevant sources as required. Your manager has given you a task to
present a written analysis in evaluating thefinancialposition andperformance of the company from different perspectives by addressing the questions listed below.
* Financial year: 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022, or in 2022 Coles specified that thefinancial year ended on 26 June 2022
1) Specify the sum of the total remuneration or compensation packages earned by all of the Key Management Personnel executives (both current and former) of the Coles group in 2022 as stated in the Executive KMP remuneration table. Calculate by how much % the sum of the total remuneration packages earned by Coles executives has increased by between 2021 and 2022. Show your working.
50 words max, 2 marks
2) In light of the Covid- 19 global pandemic development, use the demand and supply model in presenting a concise analysis on the change of the retail market/industry in Australia in 2022, compared to 2020 when Covid first hits. In answering this question, you are also to draw an appropriate demand and supply graphical model for retail market/industry to illustrate your analysis.
150 words max, 4 marks
3) Briefly define what a cash rate is. Which institution is responsible in setting the target cash rate in Australia? Describe the recent trend in the cash rate as set by the institution. Specifically, discuss if the target cash rate in Australia had changed (if any) between the months of May to November 2022. Present evidence to support your answer by referring to the relevant source within the institution website. Moreover, briefly describe how this change in the cash rate may overall affect the financing cost for the Coles Group.
150 words max, 3 marks
4) In light of the change in the cash rates you discussed in 3), specify the term used to define the stance of the monetary policy that has been taken by the institution. In using an appropriate drawing of money demand and money supply diagram, explain the process that the institution will undertake in implementing such policy. Further, briefly describe what would be the impacts of the policy implemented to the relevant and various macroeconomic measures of the economy.
150 words max, 4 marks
5) Refer to the relevant figures within the 2022 Annual Report provided, specify how much is the profit (or loss) after tax for the Coles Group in the financial year 2022. Compare this to the previous figure in the financial year 2021. By how much percent has it changed between 2021 and 2022? Display your calculation. Present a summary on some of the key factors leading to such figure attained by Coles in 2022.
150 words max, 4 marks
6) Refer to the relevant figures within the 2022 Annual Report provided. In terms of the company’s performance, construct a table to list the amount of sales revenue for the different segments of the business – i.e. i) Supermarkets, ii) Liquor, and iii) Express, for the financial year 2022. Also, present a table to list the sales revenue of the different segments in terms of percentage. Moreover, present a summary on the impacts of Covid- 19 and flood events towards the Supermarkets segment of Coles in 2022.
150 words max, 3 marks
7) Present a brief description of what gross profit margin and operating profit margin are. In your description, highlight the key differences between the two. In referring to the relevant figures in the 2022 Annual report, calculate Coles’ gross profit margin and operating profit margin for 2022. Display your working.
150 words max, 3 marks
8) Refer to the relevant figures within the 2022 Annual Report provided. Calculate the current ratio, and the quick ratio, of Coles in 2022. Show your working and present comment on the results.
150 words max, 3 marks
9) In referring to the relevant figures in the 2022 Annual report provided, calculate the Return on Equity (ROE) for Coles in 2022. Then, decompose the ROE to calculate the Return on Assets (ROA) and Equity Multiplier (EM) for 2022. Display your working. Coles’ 2021 figures for ROE, ROA and EM are reported as 37.03%, 5.51% and 6.7192, respectively. Comment on the change in ROE, ROA and EM between 2021 and 2022.
150 words max, 3 marks
10) Your manager is a very busy person. In order to further assist her, write a (300 words max) executive summary that gives a clear and concise summary of the key points you discussed in your responses or analyses for questions 2 to 9.
300 words max, 4 marks
Overall written communication on how student addresses the questions is worth 7 marks.
2023-01-06
Financial Decision-Making Assignment