identify a prospective club for purchase and to provide a brief background on the club.

Description You work as a financial analyst for a major firm of accountants and advisers, specialising in the sport sector. Your company has been approached by a wealthy overseas client who ‘wants to buy a British football club’. At this stage, the overseas client is relaxed about which club and is content to allow you to put forward suggestions. Taking into account the detailed feedback provided to you on the first submission, you should prepare a report, ensuring that you cover all three parts set out below. The first part of your case study report is to identify a prospective club for purchase and to provide a brief background on the club. This may include some reference to the club’s history, its sporting performance and, as appropriate, its broader social and/or political role. The club also needs to be placed in its geographical (and hence financial) context. This section should be fully referenced. (NB Wikipedia is not an appropriate source). In the second part, using the ‘Off the Pitch’ comparison tool, you are required to present appropriate but selective comparative financial analysis over the last few years. (While the client is relaxed about the investment club, you must select a club for which there is adequate financial data available via Off the Pitch. You should also avoid clubs which have only very recently been taken over, for example, Newcastle United. There are though still around 80 clubs to choose from). As a leading financial analyst, a key element of your contribution will be the quality of your discussion of the financial performance and position of the target acquisition. The client is also a great believer in Einstein’s mantra that ‘not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’. To that end, the client has asked you to provide a brief critique on the usefulness of published financial statements for organisations like football clubs, and to identify other information which may be relevant to the investment decision. This final section must draw on appropriate academic literature to inform your discussion. Your case study report should be no longer than 1800 words. https://offthepitch.com/ Please contact Support Team for Login details.  Above is the account of mine to access the ‘Offthepitch’ comparison tool in order to present appropriate but selective comparative financial analysis over the last few years.