Reflective Summary on Qantas Financial Statements Analysis

This reflective summary discusses the insights gained while completing an assignment on Qantas financial statements analysis. It covers sources of research, group contribution, presentation layout, strengths and weaknesses, learnings, and issues.

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Date: 07 January 2018.
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Reflective Summary
Following is the reflective summary of the assignment on Qantas and the various insights
achieved while completing this assignment.
1. Yes, I am very much interested in the oral presentation topic because it not helps to
increase knowledge on the given topic but improves communication skills and helps to
share the experience. The presentation topic was on analysis of the financial statements of
the company and it certainly helped in enhancing the knowledge of accounting, finance,
reporting, management and disclosures (Fay & Negangard, 2017).
2. There were different sources of the research and the extraction of the information for the
presentation done. These includes the website of the company, the annual reports for the
last few years and the journal discussing on the recent news of the company.
3. Each member has contributed greatly to the completion of the project. Each one has been
involved in a different set of research for each topic given and then based on the research
and findings, final discussion was done among the group so that each one among us is
aware of all the topics and then the final oral presentation was made. This is how each
one in the group was involved and contributed.
4. Yes, the entire group has taken help and suggestion from all the possible means to make
it a better presenation and give a good shape so that it is concise and informative. They
have taken help from the friends and family members on the way of presentation, the
information which should be included, etc (Dumay & Baard, 2017).
5. Yes, I am pretty happy with the layout of the slides, the content and the visual aid that has
been used in the presentation slide simply because of the fact that it is informative,
concise, legible, presentable and gives out information that is reliable and understandable
and will help the audience to come to the conclusion on the company.
6. While preparing the oral presentation, the strengths were generally the willingness and
interest in public speaking and making available the best of information to the target
audience. Communication as a whole was strength. Howver, the weakness was
consolidating the information from the different sources and to determine its relevance in
the given context.
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7. On a whole, there have been many learnings howver, few of them which are very
valuable and critical include understanding the financial statements, company’s
accounting policy and long term and short term strategies, Porter’s five forces and
understanding the annual report of company as a whole (Belton, 2017).
8. As far as issues are concerned, there are no issues but there is an opinion as to there are
be some major highlights or topics which should always be focused while making an oral
presenation on the company’s financials like it should be concise and not in paragraphs,
only the critical information should be captured and not the general like the general
disclosures or compliance, etc.
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References
Belton, P., 2017. Competitive Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. London: Macat
International ltd.
Dumay, J. & Baard, V., 2017. An introduction to interventionist research in accounting.. The Routledge
Companion to Qualitative Accounting Research Methods, p. 265.
Fay, R. & Negangard, E., 2017. Manual journal entry testing : Data analytics and the risk of fraud. Journal
of Accounting Education, Volume 38, pp. 37-49.
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