Learning Goal: I’m working on a business exercise and need a reference to help me learn.
I chose Walmart and this is required of me: Identify a company, from any country, with readily accessible information, such as an internet
website. Search the webpages to identify relevant information to enable you to address the
assignment. Ensure that you are sufficiently familiar with the company, its products, customer
base and operations to be able to justify a recommended strategy for growth and sustainability
for the company.
When selecting your chosen company:
Choose an industry that you are interested in /familiar with.
Identify several (5 or 6) companies in that industry that meet the following criteria:
o in existence for some years.
o not large multinational companies. They would be very complicated and
difficult to discuss in the time and word count that you have available.
o has clear information on their website about aims and objectives, products,
customers (either the general public or a selected number of business clients
would be most straightforward).
o publishes details of its strategy. If the strategy is unclear, it will be more
difficult to identify a clear direction for our proposed strategy.
Review the tasks in the assignment.
Consider how you could use the information you have about the companies you have
identified to answer the tasks in the assignment.
Make your final selection of 1 (ONE) company based on your ability to use it to
address the tasks with clarity. You may find it useful to sketch out plans for the tasks
if you have 2 or 3 preferred choices so you select the best one.
Analysis of Financial Data
You must analyse the financial data provided in a separate document titled Financial Data for
Introduction to Accounting and Economics for the assessment cycle to which you are registered. If
you do not have this document, please speak with your teacher/lecturer.
You should NOT access or attempt to analyse real financial information about your chosen
company. This is because companies rarely publish complete financial data, and the data they do
provide is too complex for the purposes of this assignment.
Your financial analysis will be based on financial information provided in a separate
document title Financial Data for Introduction to Accounting and Economics. Do NOT
base your analysis on the published accounts of your chosen company
Please overlook any discrepancies between the financial data you have been
provided and anything you might know about the likely financial performance of your
chosen company.
The financial data provided will allow you to undertake horizontal and vertical analysis and
prepare ratios for two years in Task 3. This will give you some financial constraints for your
chosen strategy in task 5. (i.e. if the data is in
