ATW153 - Financial Accounting
Semester 1, Academic Year 2025/2026
Group Assignment (10%)
Submission date: 19 December 2025 (Friday) - Week 11
Requirements:
1. This is a group assignment. The class will be divided into groups. Each group must have maximum 5 individuals.
2. Requirements of the report is as follow:
• Font text - Times New Roman
• Font size - 12
• Alignment - Justify
• Line spacing - 1.5
3. All workings and notes must be shown. Marks will be deducted for poor presentation and organisation of answers, spelling errors and lack of teamwork.
4. Provide citation and references for the published articles.
5. Submit the PEER EVALUATION FORM. Each group needs to submit the form on a separate sheet.
6. The Peer Evaluation form. should be included within the Appendix section with 3 columns of a table which includes (i) Name of the Group Member (ii) Level of Contribution (0% to 100%) and (iii) Comments on the area of contributions within this group assignment.
Each group, consisting of FIVE (5) members, will be assigned a Company (listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia). Each groups needs to download 3 annual reports for the financial year ended 2023, 2024 and 2025, or in certain cases 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Note: Based on the assigned company, answer the questions below:
Question 1
An introduction, setting out the overview of the company, background history and the economic environment. (20 marks)
Question 2
There are four major areas in financial ratio analysis as listed below:
i. Liquidity
ii. Profitability
iii. Leverage
iv. Efficiency
(Detailed workings need to be attached in the Appendices)
a) Explain each of the financial ratio areas given above. (20 marks)
b) Calculate minimum two key financial ratios each for the three years (2023, 2024 and 2025) in each of the major area stated above. In total you are required to calculate 24 ratios. (Detailed workings need to be shown) (30 marks)
c) Interpret the different aspects of the company’s affairs by means of the various financial ratios above that have been calculated and compare them with those of the previous years. (20 marks)
d) Base on the calculations and interpretation done recommend how can the company’s performance be improved further. (10 marks)
[Total: 100 marks]