Accounting for Decision Making: Company Research, Graphs and Investor Information

Running head: ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKING
Accounting for decision making
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1ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKING
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Part 2 – Company research, graphs and investor information...................................................2
Answer [A].............................................................................................................................2
Answer [B].............................................................................................................................3
Answer [C].............................................................................................................................3
Answer [D].............................................................................................................................4
Answer [E].............................................................................................................................4
Part 3 – Identification of the key financial data and ratio analysis............................................5
Answer [A].............................................................................................................................5
Answer [B].............................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................8

2ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKING
Part 2 – Company research, graphs and investor information
SEEK Limited is the diverse group of entities and the main purpose of the company is
to help the people to live more productive and fulfilling working lives and assist the
organization to become successful. The company owns the leading job boards in New
Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and all over the South East Asia (Seek.com.au 2018).
Answer [A]
1. Services and products – SEEK Limited is global leader in for operation and creation
of online markets for employments. The main activities of the company are to match
the candidates and hirers online with career opportunities and associated services. It
provides online placements and sourcing of the candidates. Further, the company
provides provision and distribution of courses related to higher education
(Seek.com.au 2018).
2. Name of CEO – Andrew Bassat
3. Salary of CEO – Total remuneration of CEO for the year ended 2017 was $ 45,38,592
4. Profit and loss after tax at the end of the year 2016 – profit after tax for the year ended
2016 was $ 399.4 million (Seek.com.au 2018)
5. Payment of dividend – interim dividend for the year ended 2017 was paid at 23 cents
per share and paid on 19th April 2017. Final dividend for the year ended 2017 was
paid at 21 cents per share and paid on 13th October 2017
6. Total assets of the company – Total asset of the company for the year ended 2017
amounted to $ 3683 million (Seek.com.au 2018)
7. Number of employees – At present the company is employing more than 6000 people.
8. Share price – share price at close of day on 18th May 2018 – High – 20.80, Low –
20.66.