Requirements You will be analysing Tesco PLC’s and British Telecommunications PLC’s Financial Statements, answer the following questions. In order to answer the questions below, you will need to access the last three years financial statements of eit

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Front Page:
– Module Code BS4S04
– Assignment 2
– Student Name & Number
First Page:
– Content
– Pages 1 to 3 Question 1 – Users
– Pages 4 to 6 Question 2 – Objectives
– Start each question on a new page
Second Page:
– Assignment Starts

NO BACKGROUND ON THE COMPANIES

Question 1
Tesco & BT Internal Users
• Employees
– What Information they need
– Where they would obtain it
– The purpose of this information
– Key decision or decisions they will make from this information

Tesco & BT External Users

Suppliers
• The information they need
• Restrictions of access to information over Internal Users
• Purpose of this information
• Key Decisions they will make

Question 2
• Objectives
• Primary Objective (Tesco & BT Together)
– Tell me what is the primary objective of any company
– Why it is the primary objective
– How it is achieved and measured
– Dividend & Share Prices (Growth & its importance)
– Tesco & then BT (Prove this objective)

– Dividends over time 3 years (2011 to 2014) and measure the growth
– 2011 = 10p
– 2012 = 12p
– 2013= 16p
– 2014 = 20p
2011 to 2012 = 2/10 = 20%
2012 to 2013 = 4/12 = 33%
2013 to 2014 = 4/16 = 25%

Average Growth = (20 + 33+ 25) = 78/3 = 26% Average Growth over 3 years

• Same for the Share Prices over the same 3 years (at FYE)
– Yahoo Finance
– Historic Company Share Prices

Secondary Objectives
• Different for both company’s
• Tesco’s secondary objectives are
– Customer Satisfaction
– Customers require good quality products/services at affordable prices
– Customers are satisfied they come back and buy more/repeat business
– Measure Customer satisfaction by analysing Sales/Turnover
– Look in FAME or the Financial Statements on the web at Tesco’s Profit & Loss account for Sales/Turnover
– Measure Growth or Decline in turnover over a period (say 3 years)

– Supplier Satisfaction
– Employee Satisfaction
– CSR

Question 3
Profitability Ratios
1) ROCE
– What is it
– What does it measure
– ROCE over 3 years (2011 to 2014) from FAME (calculations already done)
– Analysis these figures, good, bad, growth or decline
– Better marks from explaining Growth or decline

Question 4
1) The Importance of Cash Flow (day to day) for any business
2) The 6 Reasons Company’s produce Budgets
– Focusing mainly on the Planning Stage
– How (predominately planning) helps Tesco & BT achieve their Objectives – Maximisation- Growth etc.

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