DIPP1510

Daily Activity &

Achievement Log

No.
Start End Break of
DATE ACTIVITY / ACHIEVEMENT
Time Time Period Hour
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Downloaded and printed excel shortcuts.
Developed analysis structure for OOH advertising
company comparison
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
12/4/17 Printed annual reports and IPO listings.
Began consuming information and highlighting/extracting
insights and other relevant information
Finalised soft-info gathering for OOH advertising
company comparison
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
13/4/17 Began to compile OOH comparative review without
financials, just thematics
Continued OOH comparative review development

8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs Went on-site to a few property development projects
14/4/17
(current and potential with Nick and Andrew)
Added select financial info and further developed review.

8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs Looked at a third company for relationship with other two,
19/4/17
as well as international competitors/players in AU market
Showed analysis to Sal (one of two managers, the other is
Nick). Made refinements and adjustments to analysis
based off her recommendations.
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
20/4/17
Am starting to get excel shortcuts down, feeling a bit more
competent as a financial analyst!
Finalised OOH advertising industry review. Information
communicated, recommendations given to Sal.
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
21/4/17 Commenced on new project analysis of Tyro, a banking
player. Deeply impressive company. Background reading.
Continued background reading to understand Tyro product

8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs and service involves becoming an expert in the
26/4/17
payments market.
Downloaded Powerpoint shortcuts and stuck my excel
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
27/4/17 ones on the wall. Began Tyro presentation review.
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs Delivered package for Mia across the city.
 Reviewed Tyro work with Nick
28/4/17
Finalised Tyro presentation
Presented Tyro work a deeply impressive company
Delivered package for Mia across city
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
3/5/17
Began review of APGs books for our board pack
ultimately going to be a slide in it
Invested all my time into understanding the line items
turns out like-for-like sales is the key metric in retail (APG
is holding company for Sportscraft and Saba).
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
4/5/17
Net sales (sales inc. discount) is the commonly reported
first line figure for summary docs
Developed comparison for industry competitors to

8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs benchmark APGs performance against key industry
5/5/17
comparable companies (country road etc)
Online store comparison for these comparables was
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
10/5/17 developed (shipping cost, express, delivery times etc)
Had to work bugs out of excel spreadsheet and re-
compile/re-present work
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
11/5/17
Reviewed work with Nick
Added recommendations, made final revisions and
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
12/5/17 presented APG profile with competitor evaluation to Nick
Began analysis of automated vehicle industry. GPUs stand

8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs out as key attractive opportunity Nvidia AMD and Intel all
17/5/17
investigated
Deep search to understand product and potential.

8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs Comparison of competitor products based on expert
18/5/17
reviews and computer gamer forums
Began collating GPU information, presented preliminary
findings to Sal.
Sal suggested taking a look at an index to get broad
8:30 17:30 1hr 8hrs
19/5/17 exposure to the industry instead of just one company,
especially given Nvidias extremely high multiple I
located multiple potential indexes.
Total number of Placement Hours: 144