Assessment Brief
Company Summary
Chef`s Hat is a meal delivery service which provides high-quality meal kits to families.
Chef`s Hat`s vision is better living through better food. Launched in 2012, Chef`s Hat offers fresh, chef-designed recipes with responsibly sourced ingredients. Through its delicious receipts, the company strives to bring restaurant-quality food to the home dinner table. Chef Hat is a carbon-neutral meal-kit company and is focused on promoting dietary wellness to everyone.
The Board of Directors has asked you to do a complete financial analysis of the company, complete a cash budget, review the strategic plan of the company, make recommendations on this strategy, and provide a statement on the solvency or insolvency of the company as it relates to the Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016.
The Board of Directors is especially interested in the viability of its strategic planning which will require significant debt financing to fund its implementation, which primarily involves expanding into India.
Information Provided
You have been provided with the company`s Prospectus document (in the next segment) which the board plans to use to secure the funding for the strategic plan. The Prospectus document provides all the information necessary to complete your findings and recommendations.
Requirements
Chef`s Hat needs you to provide them with a thorough report on findings and recommendations for the following areas:
Report Length
The report is expected to be approximately 3000 words.
Chef`s Hat Expectations
A thorough and in-depth financial analysis provides very meaningful information about the financial position and performance of the company.
Note: The liquidity, working capital management and solvency analysis should be based on the 2022 and earlier financial information within the prospectus.
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For the viability analysis, the company is interested in a break-even review for 2023 only taking into account the increased debt of $57 million with an interest rate of 4%. A review of the profitability should be conducted for earlier periods. The information for the viability analysis is provided under section 7.4 Break-Even analysis in the prospectus.
The Funding Prospectus
The Prospectus provided to you by Chefs Hat has been attached below.
Chef`s Hat: Funding Prospectus
Below is the criteria for this assessment:
The Funding Prospectus
The Prospectus provided to you by Chefs Hat has been attached below.
Chef`s Hat: Funding Prospectus
Below is the criteria for this assessment:
Assessment Rubrics
To better understand the evaluation criteria and marking structure in detail, go through the Assessment Rubric given below.
Unit Hurdle Requirement: Students must pass this assessment to pass the course and the overarching Deakin unit.
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Summative Assessment Task 5 (Individual) |
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Brief description of assessment task |
For your graded assessment, you will need to prepare a written report that requires you to examine and apply the key concepts and tools of financial analysis. |
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Detail of student output |
You will prepare a report about the financial analysis of various facets of the company which includes an executive summary, financial analysis and financial planning. You are expected to prepare an excel file as well to demonstrate your analysis and support your answers. |
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Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) |
50% |
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This task assesses your achievement of these Unit Learning outcome(s) |
ULO1: Evaluate an organisation`s financial position in order to appraise your achievement of its capacity to fund strategic developments. ULO2: Formulate a financial plan as part of an overall business plan. |
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This task assesses your achievement of these Graduate Learning Outcomes (s) |
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge GLO5: Problem-solving |
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How and when you will receive feedback on your work |
The grader will provide feedback based on the analysis and report submitted. How and when you They will also add areas of improvement/suggestions and recommendations for improvement. Students will receive feedback 14 days after the assignment submission deadline on Grade.upgrad.com. |
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When and how to submit your work |
The submission report and the excel for calculations should be submitted as a zip file on the upGrad platform before the assessment deadline mentioned on the platform. |
Please find the library guidelines attached below, for your reference.
