Essay Investment Appraisal Techniques – Accounting Rate Of Return – Finance Assignment Help

Assignment Task :

Part 1: Industry Review
Using your own independent research, provide a top-line review (in bullet point format) of the current UK coffee house industry. This should include a summary of who the key players are, how well it is performing, and any challenges or opportunities that you find.
 

Part 2: Business Performance Analysis
You will need to calculate and use appropriate ratios in your analysis for the sections
required below:
2.1 Statement of Profit or Loss
Analyse and comment on the financial performance of Roast Ltd using all relevant information from exhibits 1 and 2. Your analysis should critically evaluate the lines of the Statement of Profit or Loss. 
 

2.2 Statement of Financial Position
Analyse and comment on the financial position of Roast Ltd using all relevant information from exhibits 1 and 2. Your analysis should critically evaluate the lines of the Statement of Financial Position. 
 

2.3 Statement of Cash Flows

• Use the Statement of Cash Flows (exhibit 1) and identify what has happened to the cash position of Roast Ltd during 2018.
• Calculate and explain Roast Ltd’s Operating Cash Cycle (OCC) for 2018 and 2017. 
• Critically evaluate the company’s 2018 dividend policy and explain whether you think Roast
• Ltd was right not to make a dividend payment in 2018. 
   

Part 3: Investment Appraisal
Critically evaluate the investment appraisal information (exhibit 3).
Your evaluation should challenge the management forecast in the first part of your answer.
Then, in the context of Roast Ltd, critically evaluate the following investment appraisal
techniques considering the benefits and limitations of each technique. You need to give a
clear assessment as to whether the company was right to proceed based on the results of
each appraisal technique and what we now know.
Use the following sub-headings to structure your answer:
 

3.1.a Management Forecast
3.1.b Investment Appraisal Techniques
Payback period 
Accounting Rate Of Return 
Net Present Value