Question: The two companies: Wesfarmers Limited & Woolworths Group Limited (Food and staple food retail industry)

Use the half-year result of 2018 to answer, see the below website.

https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/page/investors/our-performance/Financial_Results/woolworths-group-fy18-half-year-results

http://www.wesfarmers.com.au/util/news-media/article/2018/02/20/2018-half-year-results

Perform a Financial Analysis, using either the financial ratios provide in the half-year financial statements or ratios you believe need to be considered as well as the health of cash flows (some ratios use numerators and denominators from different statements) (ignore the DuPont Method and use alternative approach ratio analysis).

a. Assessing and reporting Operating Management decomposition. (9 marks) b. Evaluating and reporting Investment Management decomposition. (9 marks) c. Evaluating and reporting Financial Management financial leverage. (9 marks) d. Assessing and reporting Sustainable Growth Rate. (3 marks) e. Analysing Cash Flow Information (4 marks)