Finance assignment:
Need to analyse two recent finance related articles 200 words each. Those articles need to be recent finance articles from the news anywhere from the websites or newspaper. The assignment should also have the article and the news with it and the summary of the analysis. Tables and Graphs recommended to be used to explain how they relate to corporate finance. The article should also have the resource reference attached to it.
For example:
Nivea maker Beiersdorf says hit profit targets in 2012
AFP – Thu, Jan 24, 2013 9:41 AM AEDT
German cosmetics group Beiersdorf, maker of Nivea hand cream, said Thursday it was satisfied with business in 2012 when it met both its sales and earnings targets.
German cosmetics group Beiersdorf, maker of Nivea hand cream, said Thursday it was satisfied with business in 2012 when it met both its sales and earnings targets.”On the whole, we are satisfied with 2012. We can see that we are on the right track,” said chief executive Stefan Heidenreich.
Beiersdorf, which also makes Tesa sticky tape and adhesives, said it achieved “consistent growth in 2012,” with sales rising by 7.2 percent to 6.04 billion euros ($8.05 billion).
In so-called “organic” terms, which iron out the effects of exchange rates and other factors, sales increased by 4.7 percent, the group calculated.
That is in line with a forecast announced back in December for organic sales growth of “well over” four percent.
Sales increased in all divisions and the group’s operating margin — which measures operating profit as a proportion of sales — was also in line with Beiersdorf’s target of “around 12 percent.”
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Brief Summary:
German cosmetics group Beiersdorf, maker of Nivea Hand Cream, said that they met both their target in sales and in earnings. According to chief executive Stefan Heidenrich he said “As a…