ACFI 1001 Accounting for Decision Makers – Individual Project (15%)
Financial Statement Analysis and Report
Objectives
Apply theory in practice
Conduct analysis of financial statement – to look beyond the numbers
Experience formal report writing.
REQUIRED: Written report (a soft copy on blackboard via turnitin and printed copy to tutors is compulsory)
1. Obtain the most recent annual report for two companies in any of the industries on the Australian Stock Market (for example, mining, retail, manufacturing, construction, service, transport). The reports should contain at least three years of income statement data and two years of balance sheet data. Use one of the chosen companies as your ‘base company’ and the other
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11.25 – 12.75 marks: The paper generally is well written but may have minor grammatical or other writing errors or lack smooth transitions. The report addresses the issues specified in the requirements, demonstrates understanding, and focuses mainly on important items, but does not fully synthesize the material being discussed, and/or does not integrate the annual report data with the narrative.
9.75 – 11.25 marks: The paper does not have excessive grammatical or other writing errors. The report addresses the issues specified in the requirements, but demonstrates only moderate understanding, and/or lacks integration.
7.5 – 9.75 marks: The paper does not have excessive grammatical or other writing errors. The report addresses the issues specified in the requirements but demonstrates only minimal understanding of one or more of the issues.
0 – 7.5 marks: The paper fails to meet the basic requirements, has excessive composition errors, and/or fails to demonstrate understanding of the requirements.
Guide to understand and find annual report of companies:
Most public companies have made their annual reports available at company websites.
A company 's annual reports are often located under the Investor Information section at the company website.
You can use the Company Search http://www.asx.com.au/research/company-research.htm function to find the Internet addresses and other details of Australian companies listed on
Thea, nice work on the paper! You answered almost every question competently and thoroughly. The only question you might have done better on is Q10 for more detail on the rules that apply.. Thank you!
Questions: 7 Students must attempt no more than 6 questions Marks per question: 10 Exam weighting: 60%.
This paper forms 60% of the assessment in this course. This paper may be retained by the candidate.
Explain the purpose of this report by formulating a clear, concise statement of purpose. Consult pages 279 and 280 in your textbook to decide what you must tell your readers in order for them to act on your recommendation(s). This statement should answer the following questions: What? To whom? Why? (2 marks)
References are properly cited within the paper; reference page includes all citations; proper title page and introduction are present and evidence of spell check and grammar check are not obvious. Seven to 10 errors noted.
The well-edited text was attractively presented and accompanied by an extensive and up to date bibliography. The text, although readable and sometimes humorous the content and style borders on pretentious. This could be both negative and positive as it lends itself to being more entertaining and applicable to a contemporary audiences.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Evaluation: Students will be given three exams and the option of writing one paper. For
This paper is the rough draft version. There are grammatical errors and other such errors in it.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
The primary weakness of this paper is set-up. Paper lacked key elements that are essential to the structure of the paper, for example: format of title page does not correspond with ASA style, paper lacked proper citations within paper, and there is no clear hypothesis within paper.
The purpose of this report was to provide a response to the following questions by referring to the concepts covered in the text and discussed in class.
This chapter describes some major aspects of this thesis. First, an in-depth description of all the models and assumptions as applied in this thesis have been given. Specifically, this chapter introduces:
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