1. Advising on investing in a FTSE-100 company, and 2. Project Appraisal of high speed rail between London and Manchester.

Unit Title: Economics of Corporate Finance

Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed

1. # demonstrate basic quantitative skills applicable to business problems

2. # evaluate financial information in an international setting

3. # prepare reports and presentations of a type that are likely to be encountered in many corporate job situations

Assignment Details and Instructions.

The assignment details are provided in the assignment excel file on Moodle. All the data that you need to complete the tasks is provided for you in this file. You have been allocated two companies to analyse (see the final worksheet on the Excel file). Failure to analyse the specific companies you have been allocated will result in a mark of 0 being awarded for question 1.

There are two topics to cover: 1. Advising on investing in a FTSE-100 company, and 2. Project Appraisal of high speed rail between London and Manchester. Both topics should be answered in the form of a report; make sure that you include a brief introduction and conclusion in your reports.

Each report has a word limit of 2000 words; this is not a target and you may find that you can cover the tasks with significantly fewer words – short assignments will not be marked down simply because they are short