1. Capital markets play a significant role in enabling entrepreneurs to attract investments to fund their business ideas. Discuss the importance and ways of maintaining the integrity of capital markets.
2. Discuss the purpose of various statements and reports that constitute the annual financial statements.
3. As an investor, you would struggle to determine whether the reported accounting information reflects the economic reality of the individual company. Analysts can, however, employ annual financial statement analysis as an effective tool to evaluate the economic consequences of the businesss investment and operating decisions. Briefly explain the objective of financial statements analysis by discussing the purpose of all analysis steps involved in the process.
4. Discuss the benefit of carrying out strategy analysis in financial statement analysis.