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Case Study on Corporate Finance for 2201AFE

This assignment consists of two parts, total marks 100, weights 50%. In Part A, you will select a public firm listed on the ASX 300 and you will prepare a report to research the selected company from TWO perspectives: (1) Corporate governance of the company, (2) risk and return relationship of this company’s shares. 
Word limit – 2000 words for Part A and 1500 words for Part B excluding graphs and Tables.
 


Part A: Case study report for the selected company 
The purpose of this case study is to allow students to take some of the main concepts introduced in the course and provide a framework for applying them to a company of their choosing. One of the best ways of learning corporate finance is to apply the models and theories we encounter to real-world contexts and problems. You will: 
Task 1: Evaluate the company's corporate governance.
Task 2: Evaluate stock price, and estimate the impact of an important announcement on its stock prices.

 


Scenario
You have recently started an internship position with Griffith Best Equity Management (GEM), a large asset management company with A$750 million Assets Under Management located in Brisbane CBD. The company’s core investment focuses on the domestic share market, however, investments in share markets have provided lower than expected returns in recent years. 
GEM’s Chief Investment Officer (CIO) has assigned you to perform an investment appraisal on a single company listed on the ASX200 and provide recommendations if the company analyzed should be included as part of GEM’s investment.


Your personal values and experiences are important, you should base your response on the evidence provided in these tasks along with your knowledge gained in the course. It is important that you provide clear evidence of your ability to apply your knowledge of finance as learned in the course to the task. The CIO has requested that your analysis must be up-to-date analysis with at least 3 years of data. 
Your report must address the following issues, the first four issues are related the corporate governance (task 1), and the fifth issue is related to the share price analysis (task 2):
A brief description of the company analyzed
Information of the CEO of the company 
The Board of Directors of the company 
Societal Constraints 
Analysis of company’s share price using 
the Dividend Discount Model (1-stage and 2-stage). You will determine if the share price is priced fairly or over/under-valued.
News/Announcement effect on company’s share price. You will investigate the speed of share price adjustment to these announcements using graphs. You will discuss the share performance over the last 3 years, showing the major events (announcements) in the life of the company, and discuss how these events (announcements) have impacted the share price. 
On the same chart, present the performance of the major competitor and the market for comparison. 
You will need to show calculations for 5 (a), (b), (c) and a graph for (d)

Your current internship position is under 3 months’ probation period. Upon completing the task on hand, your department secretary will arrange a meeting with CIO to discuss whether you have passed the probation period and be promoted to a Junior Corporate Finance Analyst.
 

 

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