As a publicly traded entity, your assigned company is required to submit half-yearly and annual reports

to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) detailing the financial operations of the company over the

past half-year or year, respectively. These reports are available on the ASX website (www.asx.com.au)

or in the investor section of the company's own website. These are also available at websites such as

Yahoo Finance (

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/

) and Morningstar (https://www.morningstar.com/stocks).

Using information from the company's financial statements, you should document and discuss the

financing and leverage history of the company and characterise the company's historical (and current)

leverage policy using:

A) Recent (last five years) financing activities of the firm (debt issues, equity issues and share

buybacks). (3 marks)

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Use a table to report the information required and briefly discuss the information/trends.

B) Current and recent (last five years) history of the levels of debt and equity, leverage ratio (debt to

equity ratio) and interest coverage ratio. (4 marks)

An analysis for the Cochlear Limited.