audit presentation

Your audit presentation should include the following topics and slides:

  • Charts showing the following:
    • Trends in the company’s annual total revenues
    • Trends in the company’s annual earnings per share (EPS)
    • Trends in the company’s annual return on equity investment (ROE)
    • Trends in the company’s annual credit rating
    • Trends in the company’s year-end stock price
    • Trends in the company’s annual image rating

To access the above information, go to Decisions / Reports from your Corporate Lobby, click on Year-Over-Year highlights under Performance Highlights from the Decision Reports menu on the left side and you will have access to the performance summary containing bar graphs showing your company’s performance on each of the above six performance indicators. You will need to scroll down and the first performance chart you will see is Earnings Per Share (EPS). If you click on the blue tab that says EPS, a drop down menu appears and you can select the chart/graph you need. These graphs can be saved to your local storage device and then inserted into a PowerPoint presentation or Word document. Double-click on the graph that you want to download and you will be able to save the graph to a PNG file. Once you have named and saved a picture file of a graph, you can insert the picture into a PowerPoint slide or Word document using the Insert tab at the top of the MS Office program.

If you wish to create additional performance graphs, you can do so, but the above six bar graphs tell an adequate story about your company’s historical performance.

  • A slide describing your strategic vision for the company – you should take this from your Strategic Plan.
  • A slide that shows what your performance targets are for EPS, ROE, credit rating, Stock Price, and image rating for each of the next two years (Years 15 and 16). You should use the targets from your Strategic Plan.
  • A slide that sets forth your company’s competitive strategy for the internet market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company. You may need to have more than one slide here if your company’s strategy for the internet market varies markedly from geographic region to geographic region.
  • A slide that sets forth your company’s competitive strategy for the wholesale market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years. Again, more than one slide may be needed if your company’s strategy for the wholesale market varies markedly from one geographic region to another, such that your company is pursuing a meaningfully different competitive strategy in some regions versus others.
  • A slide that sets forth your company’s competitive strategy for the private-label market in some detail and how that strategy has evolved over the years you have managed the company.
  • A slide describing your company’s production strategy (as concerns plant capacity, upgrades, location, use of overtime, and work force compensation/training strategy).
  • A slide describing your company’s finance strategy (as concerns dividends, use of debt versus equity, stock issues/repurchases, actions to achieve/maintain a strong credit rating, etc.) You should clearly describe your company’s dividend policy during the period you have managed the company. Here, you should also set forth what sort of dividend increases, if any, you would likely consider paying out in the next two upcoming years (given the EPS targets you have established).
  • A slide showing (1) those companies you consider to be your strongest/closest competitors in the internet market as of the last year or two of the simulation, (2) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the wholesale market, and (3) those companies that are your strongest/closest competitors in the private-label market.
  • One or more slides detailing the actions you would take to out-compete these close rivals in the next two years (assuming the simulation continues for several more years). Since the actions may differ between internet, wholesale, and private-label, you may well need more than one slide here.
  • A slide comparing your company’s costs compared to industry average. Use the Benchmarking Report page from FIR for this purpose.
  • A set of slides detailing the “lessons learned” about crafting a winning strategy and about what the managers of a company should or should not do for a company to be financially and competitively successful in a head-to-head battle against shrewdly-managed rival companies.
  • Also, attach your Strategic Plan for Years 14-16.

Note: The above instructions are a modification of the instructions provided by the authors of BSG.

 

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