The purpose of this assignment is to provide hands on experience for 7111AFE students on financial analysis using real data. It gives them the opportunity to demonstrate, through an extended exercise, their ability to apply their accounting knowledge and analytical skills to a real world setting. This assessment task is directly linked to learning objective number six and Griffith graduate attributes A1, A3, A4, and B2. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT This assignment is a group task, not an individual task.
7111AFE Accounting ASSIGNMENT ON FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Semester 1, 2014 Total Marks: 50 Weight: 15% of Final Grade PURPOSE The purpose of this assignment is to provide hands on experience for 7111AFE students on financial analysis using real data. It gives them the opportunity to demonstrate, through an extended exercise, their ability to apply their accounting knowledge and analytical skills to a real world setting. This assessment task is directly linked to learning objective number six and Griffith graduate attributes A1, A3, A4, and B2. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT This assignment is a group task, not an individual task. Students will be evaluated both for their written communication skills and their ability to analyse financial statements with a view to providing advice to a potential investor. Detailed rubrics are included in this document as expected standards of achievement. Students are required to form groups. Each group must have two, three or four members. Each group will be hand in one combined report. It is the responsibility of students to organise themselves into groups and ensure that contact details of each student in the group have been given to all group members. Assignments submitted individually without the convenor’s prior written permission will be heavily penalised. If you have trouble joining or forming a group, you should contact the course convenor by email as soon as possible. The assignment must be word processed and presented in an appropriate report format. The report’s technical content, format, clarity of exposition, language usage and overall presentation quality will be assessed. For example, marks will be deducted for poorly presented assignments and for grammatical/spelling errors. The assignment must be submitted to University’s assignment collection (OC&AHS) by 4pm on 21 May 2014. Late submissions will attract a 10% penalty for each day they are late. As well…
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