Topic 8 – A few questions

Hi all

Just a few points I would like to clear up

Do i have to compare with another company for the whole three years or just for one year (i,e the 2013 year ) ?

The year ends on my companies are different by approx 6 weeks, do i take the year ends as they are and mention as a limitation that year ends differ by six weeks OR do I have to attempt to obtain qtrly statements and split up to try to match up the Year ends ?

do I have to do SWOT,PEST, Forces Five analysis on competitor also and compare to my company ?

IT Skills – do I just copy both companies P & L, Bal sheet into excel and use e.g autosum as evidence that there is a spreadsheet and formulas used in the RAP ??

Same for ratio analysis

Do copies of spreadsheets with formulas displayed then go into SLS statement ?

Graphs – how many graphs are required to pass ?? Graphs of what do i need ??

References – I understand that absolutely everything needs to be referenced tables, graphs, spreadsheets ??? however how many references are acceptable to pass ?? 10 ? 25 ? 50 ?

Many thanks for your patience, im self studying and working and trying to pass exams also

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