Presentation of the company you will work with. Anderson & Smith Plc, A&S Plc, is a company in food processing industry. The company has gone from doing the traditional stuff like frozen pizza and burgers to offerings that resembles traditional home cooked food like stews, soups and various vegetarian dishes. Since about 10 years back the sourcing of ingredients comes from farms within a parameter of 40 miles from the processing plant. The production process is geared to limit waste and at the moment roughly 90% of all ingredients ends up as sellable items. What is not used is recycled and sold back to suppliers as animal food or soil enhancement. An issue is that a product sold under the name "Grandmas Beef and Carrot Stew" has a waste of 22% and is a major headache for management as it is not only costly but might pose a potential marketing challenge if known by investors and the public. The operation is smooth but has its challenges as the consumption of energy using current machinery is high and the energy prices on the market is sky rocketing due to the transition from nucellar and fossil based to wind and solar based production of electricity. A&S Plc is a family business even if roughly 25% of its shares are listed on the stock exchange in London. Since a few years back the chairman is Arnold Smith and the CEO is Lucy Andersson. Lucy has recently hired John Gromwell as her CFO, Chief Financial Officer. Even if A&S is a successful company with a good reputation there are challenges ahead that you will encounter as you are presented with a number of issues John and Lucy need to attend to. From time to time Arnold interferes in their day to day life and he is a rather demanding figure. Good luck! Task IV 15 points Finally a week was coming to an end an John looked forward to get some time off to enjoy the beautiful settings that surrounds the little village he now live in. These hopes came to an abrupt end when Lucy stormed into his office. As A&S is a listed company the market has its eyes on just about every move they make. During the last couple of days Lucy and Arnold had participated in meetings with investors and finance people at a posh hotel outside London. Lucy with all her virtues and abilities lacks a proper understanding of how the stock market works and she was now totally bewildered as most of the discussions she had participated in had been well "over her head". What concerned her the most was theories about how the price of a single share moves compared to the market with respect to risk and return. There also seemed be different types of risks. She was really confused by this an uttered that either it rains or not.. To make things worse there seems to be some models for how to assess this phenomena and on top of that sceptics who claims that reality is somewhat more complicated. This is as far as she got in her rather disoriented summary of what she really did not understand when she stopped and said: I will make a speech on this topic. Please write this speech for me as I need to present my views upon this during our Rotary meeting next Thursday. Please write the speech for John. ! Presentation of the company you will work with. Anderson & Smith Plc, A&S Plc, is a company in food processing industry. The company has gone from doing the traditional stuff like frozen pizza and burgers to offerings that resembles traditional home cooked food like stews, soups and various vegetarian dishes. Since about 10 years back the sourcing of ingredients comes from farms within a parameter of 40 miles from the processing plant. The production process is geared to limit waste and at the moment roughly 90% of all ingredients ends up as sellable items. What is not used is recycled and sold back to suppliers as animal food or soil enhancement. An issue is that a product sold under the name "Grandmas Beef and Carrot Stew" has a waste of 22% and is a major headache for management as it is not only costly but might pose a potential marketing challenge if known by investors and the public. The operation is smooth but has its challenges as the consumption of energy using current machinery is high and the energy prices on the market is sky rocketing due to the transition from nucellar and fossil based to wind and solar based production of electricity. A&S Plc is a family business even if roughly 25% of its shares are listed on the stock exchange in London. Since a few years back the chairman is Arnold Smith and the CEO is Lucy Andersson. Lucy has recently hired John Gromwell as her CFO, Chief Financial Officer. Even if A&S is a successful company with a good reputation there are challenges ahead that you will encounter as you are presented with a number of issues John and Lucy need to attend to. From time to time Arnold interferes in their day to day life and he is a rather demanding figure. Good luck! Task IV 15 points Finally a week was coming to an end an John looked forward to get some time off to enjoy the beautiful settings that surrounds the little village he now live in. These hopes came to an abrupt end when Lucy stormed into his office. As A&S is a listed company the market has its eyes on just about every move they make. During the last couple of days Lucy and Arnold had participated in meetings with investors and finance people at a posh hotel outside London. Lucy with all her virtues and abilities lacks a proper understanding of how the stock market works and she was now totally bewildered as most of the discussions she had participated in had been well "over her head". What concerned her the most was theories about how the price of a single share moves compared to the market with respect to risk and return. There also seemed be different types of risks. She was really confused by this an uttered that either it rains or not.. To make things worse there seems to be some models for how to assess this phenomena and on top of that sceptics who claims that reality is somewhat more complicated. This is as far as she got in her rather disoriented summary of what she really did not understand when she stopped and said: I will make a speech on this topic. Please write this speech for me as I need to present my views upon this during our Rotary meeting next Thursday. Please write the speech for John