Calculate its key financial ratios for the years 2020 and 2021 Undertake an analysis of why the changes occurred in financial performance and how any underlying issue can be addressed. You are also required to incorporate any limitations of this type of analysis. Some ratios you could use

Learning Goal: I’m working on a accounting case study and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

A case analysis of 2000 (+/- 10%) words (by a group of 3-4 students)

• You are required to choose a public limited company (in any country) and get

its Annual Report (for the year 2020 or 2021) downloaded from the internet.

—————-The Company our group chose is Hollister/ A&F, I will have the 2020+2021 annual report attached.——————

• Calculate its key financial ratios for the years 2020 and 2021 Undertake an analysis of why the changes occurred in financial performance and how any underlying issue can be addressed. You are also required to incorporate any limitations of this type of analysis. Some ratios you could use:
  • liquidity
  • profitability
  • efficiency
  • financial structure and investor focused

  ————Please also provide me with the efficiency ratios (and answers)of these annual reports, and you only need to do this part. ———————————————————————————————–

Suggested Structure Write a brief introduction (maximum 150 words)

• Describe the context of the company (250 words)
• Present the key issues which must be supported by ratio calculations (500

words)

• Present the analysis showing why such changes have occurred, what impacts

they make on the company’s financial future, how such issues can be addressed,

and what limitations this type of analysis would have (1000 words)

• Offer a summary/conclusion (100 word.
• ——————-You only need to write my part, which is ” Present the analysis showing why such changes have occurred, what impacts they make on the company’s financial future,”
• limited in 500 words would be fine, and please help provide any excel or calculations. ——————————————
• Assessment criteria
• Excellent:for the demonstration of the critical perspectives on the use of calculations in the context of theindustry and the factors affecting the changes in performance.Very good:for the demonstration of the technical knowledge of use of calculations in the context of theindustry and the factors affecting the changes in performance.Good:for the demonstration of the basic knowledge of use of calculations in the context of the industryand the factors affecting the changes in performance
• Formatting
• You won’t be penalised if you don’t follow this good practice on formatting, but it will help yourmarkers:
• Use a Sans Serif font in black, e.g. Arial, Avant Garde, Calibri, Helvetica and Geneva.
• Use font size 12.
• Use 1.5 or double line spacing.
• Align your text to the left margin.
• Add page numbers.

3

Referencing and bibliography

You should reference your sources appropriately and list these in a bibliography. The bibliography is excluded from your word limit. You should use the ‘Harvard’ referencing system, as detailed below for written coursework

In the text, use the following referencing conventions:

• Smith (1999) argues that…. or
• It has been argued that……. (Smith, 1999).
• If you use a direct quote, use quotation marks and cite the page number as well as the

author and date, i.e. (Smith, 1999, p. 4).

• If you have two items by the same author in the same year, refer to one as ‘a’ and the other

as ‘b’, i.e. Smith (1999a) and Smith (1999b).

———I have the 2020 & 2021 annual report of A&F attached and will also provide you some q4 financial form to easy begin.

Here’s a link which contains some report

https://corporate.abercrombie.com/investors/financ..