Impact of COVID-19 on Unilever: Investment Appraisal using Quantitative and Qualitative Information

Accounting and
Finance for decision
making

Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY........................................................................................................3
Motivation of the proposed investment......................................................................................4
Conduct investment appraisal using both quantitative and qualitative information..................4
Critically discuss the risk and return and its potential impact on its financial performance.....7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The following report is based on the impact of COVID – 19 on the organisations that
would diversify the risk of the business. In the following the report, the organisation that s to
discussed about the impact of the COVID – 19 on its businesses Unilever. This is a business
organisation which is based and headquartered in London since 1929 and is running its
business operation to about 190 countries all across the world. It is a multinational
corporation which deals in the industry of consumer goods.
The purpose of the report is to analyse the proposing investment that would be
beneficial for the firm and from the investors point of view to know that whether it is
beneficial to investment in the company. Mainly the report revolves around proposed
investment that Unilever will think about making for growing and putting the business to
growth for the long – term. For this various methods of the investment appraisal techniques
will be applied for conducting a sensitivity analysis for the risk and return.
For satisfying the above purpose of the report, the conclusion and suggestion that
would likely to be given as per the report to the business organisation Unilever is that
investment proposal should be accepted using the NPV approach.
The recommendation that would be given to the firm is that the firm should focus on
diversifying its business through acquiring new corporations.