The Project aims to provide an opportunity to the students to apply the knowledge and

expertise they learn in the class to the real world. The Project is meant to realize the students
that in such a short span of time how amazing and valuable skills they have learnt and if they
use them properly, even such skills would give them a distinctive edge over others.

You are given/assigned a public limited company and you have to study and analyze its annual
reports. You are required to do following things in your project report. You can download the
annual reports of your assigned company free of cost and very conveniently, and you don’t need
a field visit or interviews in this regard.

1. Horizontal analysis and Vertical analysis of Income Statement and Balance Sheet for the last
five years of your assigned company using Excel.

2. Calculate Liquidity ratios, Efficiency/Productivity ratios, Profitability ratios, Gearing ratios,

and Market ratios for last five years of your assigned company using Excel.

3. Show the result of (1) and (2) in graph through trend analysis, pie charts, par charts and other
useful pictorial techniques, you shall show, explain these and comments on trends

4. Compare the performance of your assigned company with benchmark or any company of that
sector, comment on relative comparison and show this comparison through graphs.

The marking scheme and the components of the project report are as follows

Marking Scheme for Project Report:

The marking scheme is tentative and is subject to revision by the institute’s policy.

Description Marks

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 THE COMPONENTS OF A PROJECT REPORT

The project report should have the following components:

S.N Components Description

o.
1 Cover page Title of the project, to whom it is submitted, for which degree, name of the Student, IDs,
name & logo of PAF-KIET
2 Acknowledg Various sources who might have provided assistance /co-operation during the process of
ment carrying out the study
3 Table of Listing of the main contents in the report, name of different sections and chapters.
Content
4 Body of the 1. Executive Summary : An Executive Summary is a brief summary of a research/project,
report your project report and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the Report
purpose and its findings.

2. Introduction: The introduction leads the reader from a general subject area to a particular
topic of inquiry. It establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research being
conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information about the
topic, stating the purpose of the work in the form of the research problem supported by a
hypothesis or a set of questions, explaining briefly the methodological approach used to
examine the research problem, highlighting the potential outcomes your study can reveal,
and outlining the remaining structure and organization of the paper..

3. Literature Review: A literature review is both a summary and explanation of the

complete and current state of knowledge on a limited topic as found in academic books
and journal articles.

4. Methodology: A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.

5. Presentation of Data &Findings: Explain the data and variables used in the study and
present the findings or results of your research method.

6. Interpretation of the Results: Interpret the results in detail.

7. Conclusion/Findings: In this section, the concluding observations based on the main

findings and suggestions are to be provided.

8. Recommendations: If any

5 Bibliography It lists all the sources you've used in your project, so readers can easily find what you've cited.
/ References It is written in APA style