Landscape-oriented poster

You are to produce a landscape-oriented poster that illustrates and explains the financial
performance of a listed shipping company. It should employ financial ratios, cover the past
five years and benchmark the chosen company against four of its closest competitors. It
should be visually appealing while ensuring that the figures or ratios you choose to display
are relevant and meaningful.
Such 2-page advertisements appear in the financial papers as advertisement for the
purposes of attracting investors and you can use them as a reference.
To proceed with this coursework, you must be able to access a shipping company’s financial
information:
• You are not allowed to use the two benchmark companies we will use during our
seminars.
• Companies listed in most major stock exchanges are required to publish their annual
reports online.
• Make sure that at least 50% your company’s revenue is generated from shippingrelated activities.
• If you have difficulties obtaining the annual report of a company, please try a
different company before asking for guidance. It’s your responsibility to choose
companies whose data is available.