Topic
“Evaluate Unilever’s financial strategy“
You are required to:
- Evaluate Unilever’s choice of sources of funds using appropriate theory
- Evaluate Unilever’s dividend policy by using appropriate theory
- Recommend an appropriate financial strategy for Unilever to be followed over the next 3 years.
Guide:
Follow a report format.
Use Unilever’s financial data for the last 3-5 years in order to evaluate Unilever’s financial strategy.
Use corporate life cycle theory to evaluate Unilever’s financial strategy.
Use other relevant corporate finance theory (e.g. M&M, Lintner, etc) to evaluate Unilever’s financial strategy.
Take into consideration the current economic climate when recommending an appropriate financial strategy for Unilever. Also, your recommendations should be based on the findings of your analysis of Unilever’s financial strategy.
Use appropriate referencing
Use appropriate sources (for example, Unilever annual report, Refereed journals, Books). Do NOT use sources such as Wikipedia, investopedia, etc.
Discuss business risk, financial risk, benefits of tax shield and cost of financial distress. All in relation to unilever.
Include gearing ratios and apply this to unilever and their financial strategy and in relation to capital structure theories.
Present ratios in graphs etc.
