[jokhang]

Hi,
Can anyone please assist me on the feedback?’

2. Application of Accountancy/Business Models Fail

Very little of your analysis and application is referenced. For the RAP application means
researching how for your company it interacts with its commercial environment and how it
is shaped by its commercial environment using the models that you have chosen. This
research should be evidenced by consistent referencing of the sources that you are using
and you are not doing this.

* I do not understand this sentence: “For the RAP application means
researching how for your company it interacts with its commercial environment and how it
is shaped by its commercial environment using the models that you have chosen.” On part B, I though I should only illustrate the business model and accounting technique used for the organization and its limitation. The application of these are written in part C?*

3. Evaluation of Information, Analysis And Conclusions Fail

You have not understood what is required for analysis. If we look at an example of what
you say about gross profit “The gross profit margin of IHH from the financial year 2015 to 2017 remained at a steady level of 73% to 74%, implying decent management of IHH towards its cost of sales, despite of the uprising of inflation and high bargaining power of supplier.
Staff cost has been the highest operating cost throughout the financial years. However,
staff cost has remained consistent in par of revenue with the range of 0.385:1 to 0.406:1 in the course of 2015 to 2017 which was not the main cause of significant decrease in net
profit margin in financial year 2016.”
All you are doing here is describing movement in the accounts and using another aspect
of the accounts to explain this movement. Much more is required for the RAP. You should
be exploring the business decisions and strategies of the company and use these to
explain the change in results referencing your findings.

*I fully understood this feedback as I read through previous threads.*

4. Presentation of Project Findings Fail
Account extracts are also required for your comparator

*I think the account extracts refer to my competitor analysis in part C, which I only included the graphs. I have included account extracts in the financial ratio analysis in part C though*

Overall Technical and Professional Skills Fail

Graduate Skills

6. Information Gathering and Referencing Fail

You have not understood what is required for referencing. Referencing is evidence of the
research that you have done and is a necessary skill that you must demonstrate on a
regular and consistent basis. Although you have done some referencing you are making
too many unreferenced statements , especially in your business analysis, which begs the
question where did you get the information from? You also need more sources to
strengthen your financial analysis

*fully understood*

7. Information Technology Fail
You have produced a spreadsheet but you now need to go further and use excel to
calculate the ratios and also produce a formula sheet showing the cells you have used for your calculations

*I truly do not understand this, what does it mean to use excel to calculate the ratios? I have calculated the ratio eg “=(‘APPENDIX I – IHH SoPF’!B8/’APPENDIX I – IHH SoPF’!B5)” in the excel on every ratios respectively. What about formula sheet? the formulas are visible in the formula bar when clicked onto. Do I need to create another new sheet, copy paste the entire ratio sheet, and click “show ratio” to show as formula instead of calculated ratio?*

Please help. Thank you

[jokhang]

Thanks for the confirmation.
Do I need to extract the financial statements in pdf form directly from the annual report for legitimacy purpose or I can just plug in manually into spreadsheet?

[jokhang]

I am currently working on Topic 8,
I have RAP project file, SLS, References, Presentation and Spreadsheet as appendix.
The spreadsheet includes manual extracts of Financial statements of listed companies, ratios and graphs being named as Appendix I, II and so on.
My question is this: I am seeing on the submission upload site that, it has ‘Spreadsheet’ and ‘Appendix’ upload column. My spreadsheet is my appendix.
So could I leave the ‘Appendix’ submission column blank?
Looking forward to hearing from you.

[jokhang]

I am currently doing topic 8. An analysis and evaluation of the business and financial performance of an organisation over a three year period.
My mentor told me that I should include 4 years of financial year end account eg 2014 – 2017, in order to analyse and evaluate the financial year of 2015, then 2016 and 2017.
However, I have read through some samples, that students are only including 3 financial year end accounts.
Should I listen to my mentor? Will I fail if I include 4 financial year instead of 3?

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