Critically analyze a listed firm's financial statement; financial performance, financial position, corporate governance, and audit characteristics pre and post covid 19. REQUIRED: Go to this link below for top 50 New Zealand companies: New Zealand public company profiles - NZX50 companies | interest.co.nz Click on your company's code, for example FPH Browse for your company's information and download the annual reports for the following years 2017, 2018, 2019 (pre-covid) and 2020, 2021 (post covid). After you get the annual reports, then do the following 1. Collecting basic financial and corporate governance data from a listed firm's annual reports. An Excel template is provided with firm-years aligned. You are required to fill the excel properly and clearly. The data you collect will be used in your essay. 2. Critically analyze: The statement of comprehensive income of the company o You can pick out to discuss any important aspect of your company e.g ROA, EPS, Market cap, dividend per share, price earnings ratio, NTA per share, Revenue etc and do an analysis pre and post covid. The statement of Financial position of the company o You can pick out to discuss any important aspect of your company e.g Debt structure, equity structure, assets, current ratio etc and do an analysis pre and post covid The statement of cash flows o Compare the operating cash flow pre and post covid 3. Discuss the firm's corporate governance and ownership structure pre and post covid. You are required to discuss whether its corporate governance is good, based on the board and audit committee characteristics. What is the advantage of proper board and the financial reporting process? [You could discuss the firm's board size, whether CEO and chairperson are the same person, how many independent directors, female directors, shareholder information etc.] 4. Study and comment on the trend of the audit report of the company. Example was the opinion qualified or unqualified, were there any restatements, or going concern problems or any other necessary issues. Also, discuss if there were any significant changes in the accounting policies/estimates/methods in the company. Also, comment on the key audit matters mentioned in the audit report, and the type of key audit matter both pre and post covid. Page 3 of 5 5. Comment on the CEO's remuneration pre and post covid. Is there any significant differences? If yes what may have been the reason for this