Accounting: Financial performance and position of an organisation in the sports industry

– You are apart of an accounting and finance department and your boss has asked you to :Give a detailed Financial analysis on FC Barcelona on one area of the firms performance based on their last three years on financial statement.

The area one area chosen to analyse is (profitability) covering these areas : (revenue, overheads margins, ROCE decomposition)  discuss the differences in the numbers over the three years in these given areas and show your workings.

Calculate the performance metrics relevant to the area (Profitability) you are examining to guide you with this analysis

Identify any constraints or limitation on conducting this analysis.

Your report should include the extracts from the financial statements that you used to  calculate the metrics referred to in your report in the appendices

The word limit does not include tables, references and metric workings. Tables, metrics  and charts should be included in the report and not added in appendices, although the  workings for the metrics should be in the appendices.

statements and figures for the analysis detailed above should provide sufficient detail on  research, assumptions and compilation of the figures produced such that the CEO will be able  to see clearly that

The changes you have identified are clear as are the implications for the business going  forward, The changes you have identified are clear as are the implications for the business going  forward and that your analysis has been well researched.

You can assume that the CEO has a reasonable level of financial literacy and that you do not  need to explain common accounting terms, what each of the metrics shows or their definitions.

– Here are some of the metrics that could be used for profitability.

Return on capital employed = PBIT / capital employed = asset turnover x operating  margin

Return on equity = profit after tax / owners’ equity = net profit margin x asset turnover

– Is really important to show working out both in the essay and in the appendices on how you got the numbers/information and the differences between three years of FC Barcelona’s Financial statements in profitabiltiy (revenue, overheads margins, ROCE decomposition