ACCT5907
Skill 1: Filter and identify relevant information that is likely to move the price of the company’s stock.
(1) What one information provided by the Company during its Investor Presentation could be considered materially good news to investors? Give your reason. Note that your answer has to be material in the opinion of the marker, i.e. it cannot be nominally good but insignificant news. (1.5 mark)
(2) What one (1) information provided by the Company during its Investor Presentation could be considered bad news to investors? Give your reason. Note that your answer has to be material in the opinion of the marker, i.e. it cannot be nominally bad but insignificant news. (1.5 mark)
Skill 2: Compare performance with respect to relevant benchmarks, e.g., year-on-year, sequential and expectations.
(3) What is the year-on-year change in net income for the quarter? (1.5 mark)
(4) What is the quarter-on-quarter change in net income for the quarter? (1.5 mark)
Skill 3: Conduct analysis using the Financial Reporting and Earnings Quality (FREQ) framework:
Using the Financial Reporting and Earnings Quality (FREQ) framework, analyse and identify ONE issue (only) based on the material covered in Topics 1 and 2. [Note: giving more than ONE gives the impression that you do not know the answer and are just throwing darts at the target, and will get zero marks because the explanation, inference and adjustment flows from your ONE answer and may not logically follow if you give more than ONE. If you think there is more than one FREQ, choose your best FREQ and provide the answers to it.]
(5) FREQ label: principles of financial reporting/ earnings quality addressed (1.5 mark)
(6) FREQ explanation: (1.5 mark). Note that both answers to (5) and (6) must be correct and consistent to earn these marks.
(7) INFERENCE: how to detect & understand the problem. (1.5 mark)
(8) ADJUST: if the information was available, adjust the information and calculate the figure; if the information is not available describe the steps and the information you would need to adjust the relevant figure, or to obtain the relevant information. (1.5 mark)
Skill 4: Retrospective understanding and analysis
(9) MARKET JUDGEMENT:
(a) Did the Market interpret the information provided by the company as Good or Bad news? State your answer whether Good or Bad news, plus your evidence from the market. You may show your evidence by pasting in a chart of snapshot of some lines from an article. (1.5 mark)
(b) Give your reason why the market interpreted it as such (i.e. Good or Bad news). (1.5 mark)
Notes:
· Where you are required to give your reasons, the reason for your answer is more important than your answer itself; your answer will be marked based on the quality of the supporting reasoning in support of your answer.
· Attention to detail is important in being able to read information correctly. As such, answers that are incorrect due to lack of attention to detail will receive no flexibility in marking.
· Do not worry if in typing in your answers, you change the length of this document. This was original designed for in-class hardcopy handwriting and the lines and space was to guide students on how much to write. I do not expect your answers to be very long and only expect at most 3 lines of writing for each mark to be earned. You may write in bullet-points.