Part 1 With respect to your chosen business:- (1) What are the main risk factors impacting the business? (2) What financing and operational steps, in your opinion, should management take to both stabilise the risks set out in your answer to (1) and protect and add value to the company on behalf of the shareholders? Part 2 How has your chosen business raised finance? As a shareholder, why might you favour debt-financing coupled with the payment of cash dividends? Your answer should be given both in general terms and as a reflection in relation to the company that you have chosen. Marking guide Part 1 Task 1: Criteria Identify the main risk factors impacting the business. 10% Describe and critically evaluate financing and operational Steps that company management should take to protect and add value to a business. 50% Part 2 Description of the chosen method of financing. Critical evaluation of how this, and payment of dividends, might (or might not) impact company value. Reflection on this issue in relation to the company chosen. 40%