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1. OVERVIEW AND IMMEDIATE REQUIREMENTS

You are to form a group of 3 or 4 (no more, no less!) with students from the same class.
One person from the group must email your lecturer, stating:
1. The full names, student numbers and email addresses of each group member.
2. Your class day and class time.
3. A list of the thirteen companies below, arranged in your preferred order. Your lecturer will inform you by return email which company you have been assigned. It is on a first-in, first-served basis (so get your email in early to maximise your chance of getting your most preferred company assigned to your group).

AGL Nufarm Amcor Origin Energy BHP Billiton Qantas BlueScope Steel Rio Tinto Brambles Santos CSR Westfield
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For the company assigned by your lecturer, you are to come up with a capital expenditure initiative.
Your analysis and presentation is for the Finance Director of the company. The capital expenditure initiative must be based on an Energy Efficiency initiative that you formulate. The initiative must align to the corporate sustainability principles of the company and should reduce carbon emissions by direct abatement. Your group is a team of management accountants.
Your group must submit and present your analysis in three formats:
A. Excel – financial modelling
B. Word – written report
C. PowerPoint – for in-class presentation in week starting 20th May (7 minutes per group).
Extracts from Excel are to be included in your Word report and PowerPoint presentation.
The APPENDIX of this document outlines what you must do for the Energy Efficiency initiative.

2. EXCEL

The Finance Director will review your financial modelling. He is under huge pressure to deliver successful Energy Efficiency initiatives that satisfy shareholder value expectations. He will need to be very comfortable with your technical execution. Like many senior managers, he is extremely time poor and needs to be communicated to very concisely. He needs to quickly understand the design of your models, as well as assumptions and limitations. Whilst he needs to know that detailed modelling has been performed, he is only interested in reviewing at a high level.

Excel extracts that are used in the written report or PowerPoint presentation should be appropriately formatted. For example, present figures in $millions (e.g., $0.18m for $180,000).
You must briefly present your financial models during the in-class presentation.
You must also email your excel file to your lecturer.

3. WORD

The Finance Director is your audience. It should be very clear what the document is about, what the analysis implies, and what recommendations you are making (if any) for future progression of the initiative. Include evaluation of how the initiative is aligned with the business’ strategy.

You will lose marks if you include superfluous information in the report. The Finance Director is highly knowledgeable and will be irritated by time wasted reading an unfocussed report. He wants the report to present only pertinent informati