Identifying Industries through Financial Statement Analysis: Pakistan 2017

Name: Identifying Industries through Financial Statement Analysis: Pakistan 2017 (English version)
SKU: 9B21B012

Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Aaqib Nawaz

Product #:9B21B012

Supplier:Ivey

Discipline:Accounting, Finance

Setting:Pakistan, 2021

Details:Case (PDF) • 5 pages • 2021-07-07

Subjects:

Financial statements Balance sheets Finance and investing Accounting

Geography:

Asia Pakistan

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This exercise provides the financial data of eight major companies operating in Pakistan in 2019 and listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It also provides a list of eight of the country’s main industries. Identify which company operated within which industry to test your understanding of how a company’s financial data can be specific to a particular industry. Using only financial figures, can you identify within which industry each company operated?

Learning Objectives

This exercise can be used in finance courses at the undergraduate level. This exercise can be used to build student understanding of financial statements and ratios for companies within various industries. Students consider what each component of a balance sheet and income statement says about the company. They also consider how companies in various sectors differ from each other and what financial ratios tell us about specific aspects of a company. For example, a service sector company would have a lower inventory than a retail company. This exercise is suitable as a discussion starter. Students are encouraged to participate and build arguments based on their concepts of how companies relate to a given industry, while creating a competitive environment within the class. In a basic finance course, this case can help students familiarize themselves with balance sheets and income statement items, and gain a thorough understanding of financial ratios.