Financial performance of Renault for the year ended 31 December 2020.

You are required to prepare a report on the financial performance of Renault for the year ended 31 December 2020. The two statements that you are interested in are the Consolidated Income Statement (page 3) and the Consolidated Financial Position (page 5). In preparing your report, you should deal with the following:

1. Calculate the ratios that you believe are important to show the financial performance of Renault. Ratios should be calculated in full in the appendix of your report and a summary of findings of the ratios should be presented in the main body of the report.

2. Using the ratios calculated, critically analyze the performance of Renault and critically discuss the meaning and implication of the ratios that you have selected for Renault.

3. Select a competitor in the Motor Car Industry and calculate a number of key ratios for that competitor and critically compare Renault’s performance with that of the Competitor.

Your Report should have the following format:

• Covering Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Summary of findings
• Detailed discussion of issues
• Conclusion
• Appendices to show calculations of ratios
• Bibliography where applicable (i.e. where reading material has been used to support conclusions reached)
• Report should be typed, space and a half and should not exceed 3,000 words

Assessment Criteria:

1 Calculation of ratios 20%
2 Ability to critically analyze the ratios selected and apply them to the financial performance of the company 30%
3 Critical comparison of the financial performance of Renault with a Competitor 30%
4 Evidence of additional research i.e. independent research/ reading beyond what was directed in lectures 20%