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- December 15, 2019 at 1:42 am #555924
Task
Criteria
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Provide accurate answers, calculation marks will not be awarded unless supporting calculations are shown.
Identify reason for change in Total Shareholder Return year-on-year and provision of reasoned justification.
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Provide accurate answers, calculation marks will not be awarded unless supporting calculations are shown.
Critique DVM model, relate it to the scenario, provide critical discussion of alternative techniques and conclude with a recommendation. You should draw on a range of academic souces to support your discussion.
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Provide accurate answers, calculation marks will not be awarded unless supporting calculations are shown.
Critical discussion of the discount rate and techniques used to calculate it and contains academic references as appropriate.
4Provide accurate answers, calculation marks will not be awarded unless supporting calculations are shown.
Discussion of capital structure theory which is reasoned and related to scenario and contains academic referencing as appropriate.
5This requires you to draw on materials and discussions covered in the module and academic studies relevant to the subject area and reflect on how this has impacted your understanding of the financial world and financial decision making. You may wish to consider the impact on your employment. The word limit for this task is a maximum of 750 words and the recommendation is that you aim for a minimum of 400 words to cover this task adequately.
December 15, 2019 at 1:45 am #555925Total Shareholder Return (TSR)
Required:
a) With reference to Tate & Lyle’s annual reports for dividend information and
share price information, calculate the TSR for Tate & Lyle for the years 2018 and 2019. The company’s year-end is 31st March. (4 marks)
b) Discuss which major factor caused the difference between the TSR for the two years and what might have caused this variable to change. (6 marks)
You may wish to draw on information in Tate & Lyle’s annual accounts and/or news articles when considering why the variable has changed.
Word limit for discussion: 100 wordsDecember 15, 2019 at 11:06 am #555946I have no idea why you have typed out all of this (unless you are expecting someone else to do your assessment for you).
Nothing in what you have typed is examinable in Paper MA – none of it is in the syllabus!!!
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