Corporate Finance Assignment -- 2

Project Details
Answer the following questions:
- Discuss the decisions that a financial manager makes, and the trade-offs involve.
- Choose a company and give a brief overview of the firm and the business they are in.
- Analyse some of the financial decisions that they have made over the last five years.
- Do you think that the company will be successful in the future?
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a) Financial Decisions:
a. Investment decisions
b. Financing decisions
c. Dividend policy
b) Description of company
a. Products and industry
b. Profit over the last five years (graph)
c. Share price over the last five years (graph)
c) Company’s financial decisions:
a. Investment decisions
(Has the company made any major investments over the last number of years? E.g. new product, new factory, entered a new market, bought another company etc.)

b. Financing decisions
(Capital structure: how much debt and equity does the firm have? Has this changed over the last number 5 years? Why do you think that the company has chosen this debt to equity ratio)?

c. Dividend policy
(How does the firm return cash to shareholders? Dividend or/and share buybacks, has there been any changes over the last number of years) 3
d) Company’s future

Word Count is 2000
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