(You may submit the assignment more than once, before the due date. The latest submission only will be marked. Please be advised that it could take a few hours for Turnitin’s Originality Report to be generated. Please also note that Turnitin will only generate one Originality Report in any 24 hour period – so you may have to wait longer to see a report on a resubmitted assignment than on your first submission.)

LENGTH: 2000 – 2500 words

(Note: penalties apply to assignments that do not keep to the word limit)

MARKS: This assignment is worth 20% of the total assessment for this course.

(Note: This assignment is to be completed as an individual assignment.)

Objectives of the Assignment

This assignment develops your capabilities to analyse, reason logically and conceptualise financial, social and environmental issues; and is aligned with the Course Learning Outcomes of identifying, understanding and interpreting accounting concepts. The use of a current Sustainability and/or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report enables you to understand accounting in the context of multi-national organisations and to apply your knowledge in a different context.

Overview of assignment requirements

You are required to prepare a report on Sustainability and/or CSR performance of one of the following specific organisations below:

Telstra (2013) AMP (2013) AGL (2013) Adidas (2013)

Myer (2014) Qantas (2014)

Fortescue Metals (2014) Westfield Group (2014)

Assume you are preparing the report for a friend who wishes to invest in a business which conducts itself in an ethical way. In your report, you are required to advise your friend on the economical/financial, social and environmental performance of the business. You should analyse the financial and Sustainability/CSR reports of one of the above organisations. (Please note that a marking rubric/guide will be available on RMIT Blackboard)

The assignment’s template is as follows: (Note: you must follow the template)

ï‚· Title Page

ï‚· Introduction

ï‚· Financial/Economic performance

ï‚· Social performance

ï‚· Environmental performance

ï‚· Conclusion

ï‚· Reference List

Regarding the financial/economic performance section, you should discuss matters relating to the company’s financial statements. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following issues. It is recommended that company’s financial statement numbers be compared with those of industry averages.

(a) Identify the company’s total assets, liabilities and owners’ equity.

(b) Identify how much profit was earned by the company’s shareholders, on a per share basis, at the end of the financial year.

(c) Identify what is the total number of ordinary shares that have been issued by the company as at the end of the financial year.

(d) Identify how much of this profit the shareholders actually received (in cash), on a per share basis, during the financial year.

(e) Identify the reported dollar amount for the company’s ‘Net cash flows from operating activities’ for the year?

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