Performance evaluation of Uttara Finance and Investments Limited

Abstract

The report titled as ‘Performance Evaluation of Uttara Finance and Investment Limited’ is discussed about the position of the company, Uttara Finance and Investment Limited (hereafter UFIL) at the specified period and also compared with the other firm in the same industry. For ease of understanding, the report is segmented into five parts. In the first part contains background of the report, objectives, scope, methodology and limitations of the report. Next part of the report demonstrated the profile of the company where I have completed my intern. The Third part, contains the details about my job responsibilities in UFIL Fourth Part, main part of the Report, named ‘project’ contains details about the financial performance of the firm. At the last part, I have tried to find out the facts from internship from the organization and also give some suggestions where the firm could have scope to improve.

Non-Bank Financial Institutions is new form of financial institutions, the functions of such institutions are relatively new and challenging compared with the conventional banks. Leasing is one of the main concentrations of these firms. And the function and operation of leasing closely resemble with the academic aspects of finance. Therefore, in doing internship at such leasing institutions it would be benefited for such student who came from finance background. This report is based on mainly on the experience and academic knowledge.

At the beginning of the report, there are some prefaces about the report, such as objectives, scope, methodology and limitations. Then I have discussed about Organization, Uttara Finance and Investments Limited, where I have tried to give an idea about UFIL which includes overview of UFIL, history, its functional department with their function, importantly its products and service offering to us, sources of fund, and disbursement of funds, lease operational procedure, required documents for lease, some major events and future plan.

Next to this part, my learning from the internship is articulated. During the internship period, I was assigned at the various department of UFIL. I worked at the, Corporate Unit, Operation & monitoring department, Treasury Unit of UFIL. Also here, I have shared about the nature of my job, about the specific Job responsibilities, which I had to perform, and a different aspect of this Job has been diagrammatically presented in this report for clear understandings. Also, here, I have tried to expose my critically observed point at each functional department so I made some suggestion on the basis of that. After that, project part of the report has been articulated. Importantly in this section I have tried to evaluate the performance of UFIL, simply it can be said that an analytical assessment of UFIL. Here, I have tried to analyze mainly from two points of view, which are- Intra Company Analysis, and Intercompany analysis. Income Statement (audited) and Balance Sheet (audited) have been analyzed in intercompany analysis over three period of time FY2006, FY2007 and FY2008. In intercompany Analysis, comparative analysis tools have been used to evaluate performance of UFIL in compare to four other NBFIs’ (IDLC, ULC, Phoenix Finance, PLFI) also with same industry average over the same period of time.. Besides these, I have also shown it’s sector-wise sanctioned lease position and its recovery rate. Therefore, from the above point of view I have tried to analyze UFIL and tried to bring out the position of UFIL in industry. At the final section of the report, I have discussed what I found throughout my internship period in UFIL. It was my subjective judgment where I used my experience and intuition regarding the facts. I have also tried to point out the areas where UFIL’s has the opportunity to improve furthermore.