For your final project you will use the accounting and finance skills you have garnered through the course to create initial financial projections that forecast the company's performance under different scenarios and identify internal risks and opportunities in order to begin planning for future activities.
1 Final Project: Financial Analysis Projection Report
This assessment addresses the following course outcomes:
• Assess organizations' underlying financial performance and health by analyzing relevant financial statements, variances, ratios, and other financial information
• Draw connections between accounting and financial information and the broader organizational context for making integrated business decisions
• Assess critical factors driving financial risks and opportunities for informing management priorities
• Forecast business performance under different assumptions about inputs and processes using simple financial models
• Evaluate the internal costs and benefits of business opportunities for their impact on budgeting and business decisions
• Communicate financial analyses clearly and coherently for persuading internal stakeholders of the validity of observations and conclusions
Critical elements include:
Executive Summary
Summarize principal findings, projections, and recommendations.
Approach
Provides parameters of analysis
Financial Context: Key features
Describes how the key features of organization set boundaries for business decisions
Financial Context: Organized
Analyze how company is organized and managed and the effect on accounting and financial information and subsequent business decisions