Create a dynamic financial statement analysis where values are pulled from a set of financial facts based on a company ticker.
Assessment Instructions & Criteria
To create a dynamic spreadsheet, you must first create a PivotTable (Excel) from the dataset and then create simple horizontal and vertical analysis with Sparklines to answer the following questions. For Section 1 you need to submit your Excel file with the answers to the following questions:
Question 1. Submit your excel file with the PivotTable. (2 marks)
Question 2. Submit your excel file with horizontal and vertical analysis with sparklines. (2 marks)
Question 3. Show the Net Income value for DIS & BAC in 2020 (Round to the nearest million dollars.) (1.5 mark)
Question 4. Show the Net Income value for KO & ORCL in 2020 (Round to the nearest million dollars.) (1.5 mark)
Question 5. Show the value of [Current Assets] or Assets Current for SBUX & SO in 2020 (Round to the nearest million dollars.) (1 mark)
Question 6. Show the direction of the cost of revenue trending for TXN & COF. (1 mark)
Question 7. Show (in which of the three years analysed) in which year the operating expense highest as a percentage of revenue for DD & UPS?
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Section 2 (10 marks)
Overview
This section of the assessment task requires you to prepare a visualization storytelling report which includes four (4) visualisations from Tableau or Power BI using a publicly available dataset (e.g. ABS, Worldbank etc) that you collected. The detailed description of this task is provided below where you need to demonstrate understanding of accounting data analytics and visualisations concepts covered in this course. Please provide a 700 word (+/- 10%) narrative that explores your question and shares a story that will benefit your audience.
Assessment Instructions
Please include the following sections (note: visualisations and reference list do not count toward word count).
Section 3
Overview
Continuing from Section 2 (above), you are now required to present your data analytics and visualisation story to the board of directors and senior executives. Here, pitching to the appropriate audience becomes crucial, and this presentation must adopt suitable business presentation acumen and visualisation storytelling techniques to explain how your data analytics and visualisations using Tableau or Power BI address the question or problem.
You need to focus on at least one aspect of accounting and its role in your story or the solution that you are proposing to address the question or problem that you wanted to answer or solve in Section 2.
Assessment Details
After having successfully submitted your data analytics and visualisations story to your manager (Section 2), you now have the approval to present your work to your firm’s board of directors and senior executives for their consideration.
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Whilst being highly knowledgeable in their business domain, many members of the board and senior management team might not have the knowledge to grasp the technical aspects of your dataset, analytics, and visualisations; what they care about is for the data and insights to be presented in a succinct, digestible, and engaging manner using a 3-minute video presentation. They want to clearly identify the actionable insights which support their decision making regarding the question or problem that you set for your project in Section 2.
Assessment Instructions
To be successful in this assessment you will record a 3-minute video or vodcast. Feel free to use presentation slides with accompanying visuals. Your presentation should be pitched to the appropriate audience and address the
question(s) or business problem(s) that you have identified and provided a narrative story in Section 2.
You will incorporate your visualisations(s) into a cohesive narrative, using elements of storytelling and presentation to create an engaging presentation which demonstrates actionable insights for the board of directors and senior executives.