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Better to approach mentor through OBU Mentoring Website. You need to register there as a mentee first.
Web Address: https://www.oxfordbrookesmentoring.co.uk/.
Yes you can easily complete your project as an average student normally take 25-30 days. Thanks.
You can start working on your project now as there will be no major changes in November 2015 session. I stated this based on my experience with OBU from last 7-8 years. Thanks.
In order to access the list of qualified mentors for your OBU RAP, you need to register as a mentee first. Once you register, you will be taken to your dashboard. From there, you have the option to “Find Mentors in your area”.
Consult this link to intact with OBU Registered Mentors.
As far as selection of company for your project under topic 8 is concerned, OBU don’t impose any restriction and students have full option to select any company but you have sufficient information about this company along with its associated sector. Important aspects that you need to take in your mind during selection of company are as follows;
• Identify major internal and external reasons for specific to requirements of the topic.
• Vast information is widely available (either through primary and secondary sources of information)i Ill personally suggest to select any well know local company from oil and gas, fertilizer or tobacco sector.
Anwers:
1. You need to focus on the country in which your company resides. In multinational companies, they have operations globally but we need to focus on one entity (either parent, subsidiary or associate).
2. No , you don’t need to resubmit your SLS again even you change topic and company in re-submission. I confirmed this from OBU.
Kindly register with OBU as mentee and then contact approved OBU Mentors.
Here is a link:
https://www.oxfordbrookesmentoring.co.uk/
Best of Luck!
This aspect has already discussed in detail somewhere in this forum. Please search it and you will find the answer.
PS: Search always before posting any question. Thanks.
You should not mention this again in NP margin section rather you can write “as explained above in GP margin section”…. Your main focus in NP margin should be discussion on movement of indirect costs and you must provide some reasons for such fluctuation.
thanks.There are many way to present ratio working in excel file but you must understand that examiner only want to check your back end working for calculation of different ratios.
thanks.
You need to upload five files on online portal of OBU. These files are as follows:
1. Research Report (Contain part 1, part 2 and part 3 of report)
2. Appendix (in topic 8, better to provide excel file)
3. List of Reference
4. SLS
5. Presentationit should be “An evaluation of the business and financial performance of OBU Co between
1 January 20011 and 31 December 2013 (Topic 8)”Better to refer pg. 26 of Information Pack as this aspect explained there.
you should mention this “Appendix 1”, Appendix 2 ……
You can add multiple files as appendices.
Extract from Information Pack:
The programme requirement is that you use the last 3 financial reports that are
available, or will be available, at the start of the submission period. If the results are
not going to be published in time for you to include them in your report, then you
should use the previous 3 year’s results. The Programme Director has advised that
any Company results that are published (in any form) less than 90 days before the
start of submission do not have to be used.Please refer pg. 39 (pg. no mentioned in bottom of page) of Information Pack for further detail.
PS: Students must read Information pack as answers of most of their queries already provided there.
Thanks.
If specific information not provided on FS then you can use many other ratios. Your main objective under financial analysis is to analyse performance of the company rather then analyzing it under specific ratios. Better to choose any other ratio to analyse it.
Thanks.
As there are five major categories of ratios i.e. Profitability, Short term solvency, long term solvency, working capital and shareholders’ ratios. if you ignore one particular category (i.e. Working capital ratios) due to non availability of information then it is fine.
I mentored many students and most of the student don’t provide explanation on Working Capital ratios so you can ignore payables and receivables turnover.
PS: Make sure you cover at least four major categories of ratios out of five to get good grades in your RAP.
Answers:
1. Don’t ignore table of content as it is required as per suggested structure provide in Information Pack (ref: section 7.d.xi pg.43)
2. yes you can shorten name of your company must provide complete name with abbreviation in bracket. e.g.Mobil Oil Nigeria PLc (MON Plc)
Some tips to reduce overall words in RAP are as follows:
? Don’t write FY 2011 as you can write simple 2011 or FY2011(without space).
? 1.2 % (with space) can write as 1.2% (without space)
? Try to merge long paras into small paras.
? Try to remove spaces in references or other words like USD 50 can write as USD50 etc.Thanks,
Agreed with @Trephena
I only describe broader level reasons for movement in NP margin of the company. Student must research on it and try to find root cause for such movement based on information provided in annual report along with some external sources….
your title would be “An Evaluation of the Business and Financial Performance of XXX between 01 April 2011 to 31 March 2014.
Please refer pg. 26 (Section 7.b) of Information Pack as this aspect explained there.
Consult this link…there are many websites that can generate reference according to requirement of Harvard Referencing so better to use these websites rather than built in tool of MS word…..