General Queries Topic 8

@hannah0275

I can only answer queries that I can understand and yours unfortunately are not clear. What do you mean by:
“I have subtitled two types performances and using PESTEL analysis for business performance and ratios and revenue anaysis for financial performance. Is this good method to divide company’s financial and business performance in two sections?” ????

Have you read my article on Evaluation & analysis on our homepage http://www.opentuition.com/obu as I stress the importance of INTEGRATING factors from the SWOT and PESTLE when EXPLAINING the factors in the financial analysis?

Again I do not understand the following commentary – I appreciate English may not be your first language but if I don’t understand it neither will a marker:
”Net profit margin was dropped from 3% in 2010 to -12% in 2013, by analysing this margin, we can assess the ability to expand the business through additional debt or other investments. However it does not look feasible”
What are you trying to say here? It has to be clear. So the net profit fell from +3% to a net loss of 12% but after that I don’t know what you are saying. I know what you SHOULD be saying and that is explaining exactly why this company went from a profit to a loss situation – what factors produced this – bad management decisions (i.e. ones that were not based on the SWOT but should have been) e.g. attempting to enter a difficult market, loss of contracts, attempting to cut costs that impacted on quality that resulted in loss of sales overall? PESTLE factors – changes in the law regarding its operations making them more difficult/expensive? Obsolescence – the product is too dated in technological terms? Changes in consumer preferences (social factors)? You need to research the reasons. The SWOT & PESTLE factors often lie at the heart of what has gone on (hence the reason I talk in my article about integrating the two).

The structure of the RAP is set out in the Information Pack which all students must familiarise themselves with this. A degree is about thinking and researching for yourself and working some things out for yourself too – this is not the mentor’s task

The conclusion should be a summary of the principal findings i.e. the main points that influenced and impacted on the company’s performance and results over the last 3 years

Regarding Referencing: the marker needs to be able to identify exactly what is being referenced so references go in the text unless the whole paragraph is being referred to. The rule is every idea or use of a source must be referenced each time including the graphs and charts

If you are struggling through lack of guidance then I suggest that you look for a very good mentor (by the way I am not a mentor I am the Forum Moderator. We recommend The Learning Luminarium as they are very experienced and offer a variety of packages suited to different students’ needs). You will need to have a mentor to certify your work.

I am doing Topic 8 for my RAP but there are only three company in the industry and only one is listed, as such the other are refusing to give me there information as in FS, can i go ahead and do the RAP without a Comparator?

Thanks Traphena, am helped

@trephena, DO you think its better to use the Porter Five forces model or the PESTEL model for a company which has a global presence. I will be using SWOT but i am not sure about what other model to use. Please guide me and if you have any other suggestion please share it too.

Thanks

Hi
I have pick the Mobile telecommunication industry and my company is rogers.I have two ask two questions

1. My company issued its 2015 financial statements on 11 feb according to the Obu 2015-2016 packet we don’t have to pick the year if the statements are issues less than 90 days before the start of the submission period.In my case it does fall in that category.Is it okay if i take years 12 13 14 ?

2.Since my company is a telecom company its sales consist of all other telecom products also asides mobile telecom. Where I have to show industry sales should i should sales related all telecom products or Mobile only as Mobile only sale aren’t available.

Hope someone helps.

@Bakhtawer

1. Yes you can analyse 2014, 2013 & 2012 year ended financial statements.

2. You can mention both mobile & all telecom products. I will recommend to highlight those items in industry which are your company’s main product(s). In-case if no data available for only mobile then you can skip it in industry analysis and mention overall statistics.

Regards,
Hammad Ahmed Qureshi – OBU Registered Mentor.

@trephena Thanks for the reply. I highly appreciate the feedback

Hello,
i have selected glaxosmithkline for RAP. But i am confused whether i should choose its parent company based in UK or its subsidiary in India for evaluation . And if i choose subsidiary will i have to evaluate performance of parent company also.
And second issue is about choosing the competitor company for benchmarking the performance i am planning to choose pfizer, is it the right choice.

Thank you

roop1234

You will bring all these issues to the attention of your project mentor, He/she guides you step by step and develop your research skills.

I suggest you to select companies from same countries because you will analyze Business and Financial performance over three year period. to keep balancing your report you will have to have reliable information from different sources to help you end your report within word limit. Both countries have different business and financial environment and how will you make sure your analysis is more meaningful and like with like,

You can select any of the following companies for your research project

Novartis
Pfizer
Roche
Sanofi
Merck & Co.
Johnson & Johnson
GlaxoSmithKline
AstraZeneca
Gilead Sciences
Takeda
AbbVie

Keep in mind you can find different sources easily during your project, only annual report is not enough to prove your deep research. most of the information students access online. Does this sound good to you

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

@roop1234

Yes, you can subject to information available on GSK Pharmaceutical Ltd.

Regards,
Hammad Ahmed Qureshi – OBU Registered Mentor.

Hello I am writing on pfizer co.
I want to know when i calculate net profit margin ,do I need to take net profit attributable to pfizer or total net profit?
Thank you

In Pakistan, there is no listed Airline and mobile company, I am going with pharmaceutical industry and as per my knowledge there are only two company which are listed GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi. Can i chose both of them, one as my main company and second for benchmarking purpose? Do i need to write my report in $ or local currency?

One thing more, can i write in “reason for choosing this industry” as there are no mobile and airline listed company available in Pakistan?

I wanted to clarify something, persons submitting for Period 32(May) can only do so for companies in the designated industries?