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Background Good News Ltd is a UK-based privately-owned news channel distributed on satellite, cable and on-line. At present it employs 1,000 personnel in a news gathering and editing capacity. This includes reporters, camera operators and editors. A further 450 staff work in the head-office and support functions. The company regards itself as having a progressive editorial style and has tried to reflect this in operational decisions, including a focus on maximising the diversity of its workforce in all areas and emphasising this approach in its branding. The company is owned by the founders, Arlo and Manfred, with a 20% share each, a number of senior executives with a total of 20% between them (none with more than 5%), and 40% by Stox, a private equity fund. There are 20 million shares in issue and, according to a recent presentation given to the company by an investment bank the equity is worth £210-230m. The company paid dividends last year of £1.32 per share. The company has debt as follows:  £25m in the form of subordinated loan stock provided by Stox at a fixed rate of 5.5%  £30m in a “club deal” from three banks at a floating rate hedged through a swap at 4% for 5 years. Last year the company had revenues of £156m million, Operating Profit of £15m and Net profit of £8m. Margins have been falling and the management are coming under pressure from Stox to improve performance. The Director of Operations is concerned that the technology currently employed by the organisation is aging and does not operate at a level of security or efficiency suitable for a company of GNL’s scale. He has been in discussions with a broadcasting IT designer, NBED, to carry out a preliminary analysis on how the systems could be upgraded. NBED estimate that designing or licencing new software would cost £5m per year for the next 5 years. It would also require an investment of £60m in new hardware throughout the organisation. It would also require an increase in the training budget of £8,000 pa per employee in the first year and £2,000 pa thereafter. The hardware would depreciate on a reducing balance basis of 30% per year for the first two years and 20% thereafter. The introduction of the new technology would mean a significant change in working practices and a significant reduction in the size of the workforce. This would be mainly amongst front line journalists, editors and camera operators, since much of the work can now be done by junior reporters using news feeds which are directly accessed through their computers. It is thought that up to 650 staff could be made redundant at a cost of 50% of their annual salary. Average salaries throughout the company are £45,000. A certain number of new staff would need to be hired (10 in year one and 5 in each of the following two years) to support the change. Assignment Task You are required to prepare a report, using the information provided above covering the following areas: a) An up to date estimate of the company’s cost of capital using publicly available data (15 marks) b) A spreadsheet model forecasting the impact over the next 5 years of the business case proposal set out above, together with a critical review of the assumptions, using publicly available information and a revised business case using the model to show its impact (40 marks) c) A critical evaluation of the project and revised business case using investment appraisal techniques and a critical discussion of the results of this analysis (15 marks) d) A discussion and evaluation of how the company might meet the funding requirements of the project (10 marks) e) A brief critical discussion of the corporate social responsibility issues raised by the proposal (10 marks) f) A critical, supported conclusion providing recommendations for the adoption or otherwise of the proposal. (10 marks)
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Hi! I have gone through your project details on this report. I had my PG in Accounting and Finance and I have over 6 years of experience in academic research where I have been responsible for the design, execution, and analysis of primary and secondary data, and the subsequent writing and preparation of peer-reviewed journal publications. I am well versed in the evaluation of studies for the development of clear and cogent ideas and arguments. I am your best bet. To see some of my sample work, please knock!
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I can do all these tasks easily. MBA accounts and finance. I am also C.A finalist. I am a Financial and Business analyst having 7 years of experience in these skills: • Financial modeling and projections • Business valuation/Business plans • Financial reports / Analysis • Business analysis • P&L statements • Investment analysis • Managerial Accounting. • IFRS. • Qualitative & Quantitative analysis. • investment proposals. • Excel Analysis. • Ratio Analysis. • Revenue Principal. • Cost analysis. • cash flow statements. • Income statement. I already done more then 200 Finance, Accounts, Business and Management related projects in my career.
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Hi! I have checked your requirements on this accounting task. Is there any specific word count for each question? Do you have any additional instruction sheet? Do you have any reference materials? My academic background has been Accounting and Financial Management and I know how to draft a report that is not only free from plagiarism but also secures the best outcome. I can assure you a quality work AND I won't leave you until your objectives are achieved. I am confident to deliver my best possible. Please come via chat so I can share some of my past work with you and discuss it more. Thanks, Tiana
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HI, I am Vikash, having 7.9 years experience in international accounting including MNC exposure. I am having "MBA in Finance" & "Master of commerce (Mcom)" degree. , below is the details of activity I can perform as follows :- 1. Bookkeeping 2. Accounts Finalization includes balance sheet reconciliation & Profit & loss account scrutiny. 3. Bank reconciliation, 4. Accounts Receivables, invoicing to client , receiving money via bank, ageing report, AR reconciliation. 5. Accounts Payables, recording invoicing, ageing report, payment as per instruction. 6. Cash budgeting , Cash flow statement. Apart from above I have exposure to different international accounting software which includes :- Xero, Quick Books , Kash flow, Sage50, SageOne, VT, Freeagent, Shift-care etc.
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