HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

HA3011 Advanced Financial Accounting

Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines

Trimester T1 2020

Unit Code HA3011

Unit Title Advanced Financial Accounting

Assessment Type Assignment

Assessment Title Individual Assignment

Purpose of the assessment;

Students are required to, follow the instructions by your lecturer to confirm any

relevant information. You also need to follow any relevant announcement on

Blackboard that confirm the date and time.

The individual assignment will assess students on the following LOs;

1. On understanding of the various theoretical models of accounting 2. On applying knowledge and understanding to specific financial reporting issues to AASB accounting standards 3. On discussing the theoretical constructs of contemporary financial accounting 4. On evaluating and explaining the need for the development of a conceptual framework for accounting, and discuss the influence of such a framework on accounting practice. 5. On Understanding of the Australian accounting regulatory framework and the conceptual framework 6. On understanding of how to account for assets, non-current assets and liabilities 7. Be able to calculate for revaluations and impairments of non-current assets, and then journalise, and 8. Account for leases for both lessees and lessors.

Weight 25 % of the total assessments

Total Marks 25

Word limit 2000 words

Due Date Sunday of week 10 at 11:59

Submission Guidelines

All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed

Assignment Cover Page.

The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm

margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page

numbers.

Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at

the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.

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Assignment 2 Specifications Purpose: This assignment aims at assessing students on the Learning Outcome from 1 to 8 as mentioned above. Assignment Structure should be as the following:

Assignment Topics Weighting

Structure 1.5

Introduction 1.5

General Purpose Financial Reporting – Definition, Description, Critical Discussion &

Identification

8

Objective of the General Purpose Financial Reporting, within existing conceptual

framework project

8

Conclusion 2

Language 2

References 2

? Total Marks 25

Assignments’ Instructions and Requirements

In the excel file “Find Your Company” you will find the listed company you have been allocated for this course. This file will be made available on Friday of Week 4. Complete this assignment for the company you have been allocated. Please be careful to use the listed company you have been allocated. Your assignment will not be marked if you use a different company to the one you have been allocated; and you will be asked to resubmit your assignment using the right company. Go to the website of your company in the list of companies in the file “Find Your Company”. Then go to the Investor Relations section of the website. This section may be called, “Investors”, “Shareholder Information” or similar name.

In this section, go to your firm’s annual reports and save to your computer your firm’s latest annual report. For example, these may be dated 30 June 2018 or 31 March 2019. Do not use your firm’s interim financial statements or their concise financial statements. You are need to do the following tasks:

Please read the relevant footnotes of your firm’s financial statements carefully and include information from these footnotes in your answer.

Required:

? From the annual report of your allocated company and in addition, to providing examples, define, describe and critically discuss the objectives of general purpose financial reporting (GPFR)? Which objective appears to have been included within existing conceptual framework project? and identify if your allocated company’s report is a GPFR and if the objectives of GPFR are achieved by your company?

For additional guidance for marks allocations refer to the below marking rubric / guide.

Students need to make sure that performing the assignment using the same company is not permitted.

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Assessment Criteria: Assessment of the case study will be based on the criteria listed below and your submission should

include the following:

This assignment is to be your own work. You will find information regarding plagiarism and academic

misconduct in Blackboard. It is the responsibility of the student who is submitting the work, to ensure

that the work is in fact her/his own work. Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work

without appropriate acknowledgement is an academic offence. Students can submit all assignments

for plagiarism checking (self-check) on Blackboard before final submission in the unit. For further

details, please refer to the Unit Outline and Student Handbook. It is essential that students use a

standard referencing style in their assignments – Holmes Institute uses the Harvard Referencing style.

Marking Criteria

Marking Criteria Weighting

Structure 1.5

Introduction 1.5

General Purpose Financial Reporting (GPFR) – Definition, Description, Critical Discussion & Identification

8

Objectives of the General Purpose Financial Reporting within existing conceptual framework project

8

Conclusion 2

Language 2

References 2

TOTAL Weight 25%

Marking Rubric

Excellent Very

Good

Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Marks

Allocation

Structure 1.5/

Introduction 1.5/

General Purpose Financial

Reporting – Definition, Description,

Critical Discussion & Identification.

8/

Objectives of the General Purpose

Financial Reporting, within existing

conceptual framework project.

8/

Conclusion 2/

Language 2/

References 2/

Total 25/