Finding suitable company for OBU project

Hi Katalin

You don’t mention if there is a particular reason why you have selected this topic as your first choice. It will require you to have good access to financial data though.

It is also probably best suited to an organisation in the light industry sector (of the current prescribed industries that would tend to be electronics). This is because I would expect part of the discussions of cash management to involve stock levels, ordering quantities and purchase decisions. It would also entail examining the components of the working capital cycle and assessing payable and receivable policies.

It is probably less easy where potentially bought in materials are relatively insignificant (this is probably the case with mining and mineral extraction and also the case with many service industries) as it gives you less substance to discuss. The other element is funding strategies and the way the organisation manages its short and medium term funding requirements and an evaluation of these – though this would be particularly relevant to the mining and mineral extraction sectors. So finding an organisation (and a comparator one) is not easy unfortunately – again the reason I think electronics organisations are most likely to tick all of these boxes.

From a marker perspective (having been previously on the marking team) I have to say that Topic 15 did not ever have a particularly high pass rate and therefore unless you really cannot find another topic my honest advice would be to find look at the list of topics and go for something else.

Of course it is your choice, so I wish you well with your work and although this has probably been of limited help I hope it does give you something to think about.

Gillian