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Financial Analysis & Management Assignment -

Write 2400 words on two telecom companies in the Maldives.

1. Dhiraagu

2. Ooredoo

TASK DESCRIPTION - Assessment Component: Financial Ratio Analysis

The Question:

1. Your question is as follows:

Choose a listed company on the London Stock Exchange or in any other globally recognized stock exchanges in any of the following sectors: Retailers, Food &Beverages, Health Care, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals & Biotech, Telecommunications and Utilities.

Obtain the annual reports of the company and one of its main competitor for the latest five years from its website or other sources.

a) Write an introductory report on the activities of the company and its position in the industry with respect to its competitor.

b) Critically compare and analyse their financial performance over the last five years. ( i.e. the major company and its main competitor company).

c) If you were going to buy one of these companies' shares, which one would you choose? Explain your reasons.

d) State clearly any problems, limitations and assumptions that you need to make to answer the questions.

GUIDANCE FOR STUDENTS IN THE COMPLETION OF TASKS -

NOTE: The guidance offered below is linked to the five common assessment criteria overleaf and specifically aligned to the "exceptional" outcome category to which we anticipate students aspire.

1. Research-informed Literature

Your work must embed and be informed and supported by relevant and credible scholarly material that is accessible in the learned journals listed on the module schedule. You should refer to at least 25 such sources. Additionally, you should refer to text books, current news items and benchmark your organisation against other organisations to ensure your assignment is current and up-to-date. High-level referencing skills using the Harvard Method must be demonstrated throughout your work and all sources listed alphabetically within your bibliography.

2. Knowledge and Understanding of Subject

Your work must demonstrate the growing extent of your knowledge and understanding of concepts and underlying principles associated with the subject area. This means that within your work, you should provide evidence of your growing mastery in critical awareness of current challenges, new insights and the constant need for innovation within the field. Furthermore, a critical awareness of the ambiguities and limitations of knowledge and even understanding, should be considered and examples of such, illustrated within your work.

3. Analysis

To be considered masters worthy, your work must contain evidence of analysis, evaluation and synthesis. This means not just describing "What!" but also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? And at what cost! At all times, you must provide justification of your arguments and judgements. Evidence that you have reflected upon the ideas of others on matters occurring in the real world of business is crucial to you providing a reasoned and informed debate within your work. Your choice of methodologies to gather data and information must be rigorously defended. Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make sound judgements and convincing arguments in the absence of complete data, since within the real world of work, we rarely have access to, or know all the information! Persuasive conclusions are especially necessary and must be derived from the content of your work - there should be no new information presented within your conclusion. Your work should aspire to resemble work which is of journal publishable quality.

4. Practical Application and Deployment

It is essential that you rationalise how you decided upon certain methods, materials, tools and techniques to inform and complete your work. You must demonstrate what informed your decision(s) to apply certain concepts that enabled you to formulate innovative and creative solutions to the challenges presented to you or that you identified for yourself. Plausible, costed and justifiable recommendations are demanded and where these are absent, your work is undermined. Your work should provide evidence that you are growing in mastery in developing cutting edge processes and techniques within the subject area.

5. Skills for Professional Practice

Your work must provide evidence of your attributes in the application of professional practice. This includes demonstrating that you are highly capable of individual and collaborative working. Regarding the presentation of your work, you must demonstrate your ability to select and deploy the appropriate media that is "fit for purpose. Additionally, you must exhibit your ability to: communicate with an exceptionally high level of professionalism; work professionally, autonomously and within a team; develop leadership skills; and produce/present work that is coherent, cogent and specifically addresses the challenges set for you or you have set yourself. Importantly, your work should be easily understood by specialists and non-specialists in the field.