Topic: An Assessment of the Quality of Corporate Governance within Bread Talk Group Limited and the impact on Bread Talk Group Limited’s key stakeholders
1) This is a Research and Analysis Project (RAP)
2) Requirement to write a Business related Research Report
3) Successful RAP: you have to evaluate and / or analyse information from a range of sources. This means creating some meaning of what you have found, or making a judgment or coming to a conclusion. If you only report the information that you have found or generated, you will not pass the RAP. The ability to evaluate and / or analyse information is a very important graduate attribute and the grade that you are awarded for your RAP will be significantly influenced by ‘how well’ you demonstrate your evaluative and/or analytical skills in your RAP.
4) Your RAP will focus on accounting and / or business issues within an organisation. It is very important to remember that the reported financial performance of an organisation – is the outcome of the organisation’s business activities.
5) A private sector company (I have chosen Breadtalk Group Limited) competes against other companies to sell its goods and services and its success in doing so is reflected in the company’s financial statements and financial performance indicators. Therefore in order to explain why a company’s financial performance has changed and how key stakeholders are affected, you must look into the company’s business environment and identify those actions taken by the company, its competitors (in this case, I have chosen Auric Pacific Group Limited), government etc. which have led to changes in the company’s business performance. To understand change, you may need to look outside of the organisation chosen for your RAP.
6) Your RAP must have a single organisation as its focus.
7) You must be independent and unbiased when undertaking research. You may think very favourably about a company and / or its products. However if you choose this company for your RAP you have an obligation to look at the range of differing views about the company that exists and to evaluate all of these views within your Research Report. You should not only use those information sources that support your own view of the company.
8) The purpose of the Research Report is to give you an opportunity to demonstrate a range of Technical and Professional Skills in:
