Assessment Task Context You have been hired by the Griffith Investor Capital (GIC) as an Equity Investment Analyst to provide a critical evaluation of the governance and strategy of your Allocated Firm. Further, for your Allocated Firm, evaluate the performance of the firm using ratio analysis across time and relative to a peer or peers. You need to write a report to the Chief Investment Officer (ClO) of GIC explaining whether the firm is well governed and performing well. Part 1 Governance and Strategy Critical evaluation of the governance and strategy of your Allocated Firm. In doing so, you should evaluate a broad set of issues including, strategy, diversity, competency of the management team, independence of non-executive directors and ESG, especially climate impact and risk. In doing so use of a broad set of sources (newspaper articles, analyst reports etc.) and do not fall into the trap of "buying" the company narrative in the annual reports and other company publications. It is important that you display critical thinking and explore whether the company has faced pressure from shareholders, other stakeholders, or regulators on any issue, but in particular, on ESG and climate change issues. Part 2 - Ratio Analysis Further, for your Allocated Firm, evaluate the performance of the firm using ratio analysis across time and relative to a peer or peers. In doing so you must use the data up to the latest reported financial year. It is advised that your time trend analysis should go back at least five years. The source of your data can be primary (annual rereports) or secondary (e.g. yahoo finance etc , or you can use the Refinitivin the Gold Coas or Nathan Trading Rooms). It is important that you make a logical choice of peer(s) and provide a justification for your selection. In doing so, try to find the closest peers possible by referring to where and how they operate i.e. geographical and business activity segmentations. You should select up to 12 ratios that best explain the relative performance of you Allocated Firm with respect to Part 2 - Ratio Analysis Further, for your Allocated Firm, evaluate the performance of the firm using ratio analysis across time and relative to a peer or peers. In doing so you must use the data up to the latest reported financial year. It is advised that your time trend analysis should go back at least five years. The source of your data can be primary (annual rereports) or secondary (e.g. yahoo finance etc, or you can use the Refinitivin the Gold Coas or Nathan Trading Rooms). It is important that you make a logical choice of peer(s) and provide a justification for your selection. In doing so, try to find the closest peers possible by referring to where and how they operate i.e. geographical and business activity segmentations. You should select up to 12 ratios that best explain the relative performance of you Allocated Firm with respect to e Profitability e C(Capital structure e Payout policy e Market/Valuation e ESG and/or Climate transition risk performance (e.g. Carbon Intensity = Emission/Revenue) Ratio analyses across time and relative to peers should be presented graphically, using figures in an effective manner. You do NOT need to calculate liquidity or working capital ratios. Note: Calculations of ratios for the allocated firm and peer firm(s) should be in an appendix with sources of data clearly identified. Calculation should also be provided in a worksheet of the excel spreadsheet submitted