Task: About TMA: The TMA covers the financial accounting concepts and practices in the businesses. It is marked out. It is intended to assess students’ understanding of some of the learning points within Book. This TMA requires you to apply the course concepts. The TMA is Intended to: Increase the students’ knowledge about the reality of the accounting as a profession. Assess students’ understanding of key learnin...
Question: Learning Outcomes This assignment assesses the following learning outcomes: Demonstrate a conceptual and critical understanding of International Accounting Standards and its implications on corporate reporting (learning outcome K1) Apply the techniques of financial analysis to real-world company financial scenarios (learning outcome K2) Analyse corporate financial performance taking an independent approach and using relevant da...
Task General Instructions: This assignment is designed to cover all the Learning Outcomes stated in the Module Descriptor BSM834 Business Development, Marketing & Sales. Each student should produce One final document which should be uploaded to the Assessment drop box on the Moodle area by 9 December 2021 @ 0800 hrs. The work is to be carried out individually. You are required to produce a typed document, using an appropriate busin...
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to enhance learners’ understanding on qualitative characteristic of accounting information and enhance skills to prepare the journal entry, trial balance and financial statements. Assignment Select one listed company on Bursa Malaysia and access the annual report of the company for the year ended 2018. Question 1 Discuss how ‘feedback value’ and ‘forecast value&rs...
Task: Task One Using the Annual Report and Accounts of Thomas Cook for the period 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, you are required to evaluate the performance of the company. You are required to : (a)Evaluate the performance of Thomas Cook in the following areas, using ratio analysis: -Profitability -Liquidity/Solvency -Working capital efficiency -Long term financial structure -Investors’ perspective In addition you could a...
Question : About TMA: The TMA covers the advanced accounting concepts and practices in the businesses. It is marked out of 100 and is worth 20% of the overall assessment component. This TMA requires you to apply the course concepts. The TMA is intended to: Assess students’ understanding of key learning points within chapter 1, 3, 4 and Increase the students’ knowledge about the reality of the advanced Accounting issues. Devel...
Task: Overview The aim of this assignment is for students to critically explore the concept of the experience economy and customer experiences. Over the past decade within leisure and tourism, attention has shifted away from product and service delivery to the customer’s experiences as the added value element. This shift has been coined by Pine and Gilmore (1998) as the ‘experience economy’. Simply, the experience economy is one in which...
Task: Researching a sector, analysing data and writing a formal report are very common requirements for graduate roles. Previously a student used this coursework to support an assessment centre for a major travel company which involved assessing whether to open a new retail shop outlet. Module Learning Outcomes Assessed:1. Implement and evaluate the use of management accounting tools from a strategic perspective in a variety of organisational ...
Top Notch Homes Ltd. (TNH) is a privately owned company selling a luxury range of home equipment. Fiona Fielding, the daughter of the company’s founder, took over responsibility for running the company in December 2018. She has little management experience. Her main interest is in developing a new business line to broaden the company’s activities. She has no interest in day-to-day internal control activities preferring instead to adop...
Task 1. This problem requires you to estimate the WACC of a real company using publicly available data as of the fall of 2019. The company is Home Depot (Ticker: HD). You need to collect information as directed below. Here are the sources for the various data: Look up market data on any recent day (unless otherwise specified) and use those in your calculations. Assume that the market value of debt is equal to its book value and that the tax r...
Question: 1. What criteria should Pierron apply to evaluate each of the alternatives? Based on these criteria, what is your evaluation of the various alternatives? 2. 2. What decision would you make and Why? Bombardier Aviation: The Front Substructure Decision: David Wood wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The author does not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation...
Task Portfolio Part A: Reflective paper comparing traditional and contemporary approaches of management • Write a short reflective paper based on the content covered in weeks 1 to 6 by comparing traditional (classical) and contemporary approaches of management.• Recommended word count: 500 words (please note the overall word limit of 1,500 words for parts A and B in this portfolio). Learning Outcome (LO) LO1: Identify major developments i...
Questions: Part AQuestion 1 Impairment of assets (9 Marks)I. Aero Ltd has determined that its aviation division is a cash–generating unit (CGU).Information as at 30th June 2020 is as follows:$Buildings – At cost 600,000Equipment – At cost 500,000Inventory 25,000Land 250,000Receivables 150,000Goodwill 90,000Total 1,615,000 Additional information:Buildings - Accumulated depreciation as at 30 June 2020: $100,000 Equi...
Create a pivot table for the variables ‘department’ and ‘left’ (youcan use the table created in question 1f if you wish) and use it to answer thefollowing questions. You do not need to include the table in your answer script.i. Of those who left the workplace, what percentage worked in accounting? ii. Of those who worked in marketing, what percentage left the workplace? iii. What percentage of employees left the workplac...
Part 1 The business world is changing rapidly. New business forms can be seen in organisations such as Airbnb and Uber. Indeed, referring to “uberisation” of business, [Rice and Martin, 2015] in a recent article highlights the role of managers in such changing organizational structure. Clearly, if the role of managers is changing, then must be the role of management accounting too. Required: Critically discuss how changing busines...
Question: Please be aware that exceeding the word limit will affect the academic judgement of the piece of work and may result in the award of a lower mark. Appendices are not considered a supplement and will not be assessed as part of the content of the assignment. As such, they will not contribute to the grade awarded; however, it may be appropriate to use an Appendices section for any material which is a useful reference for the reader. Ple...
Question 1. Inventories A New Zealand clothing store sells seasonal dresses. As the season draws near the close, the store sells the dresses at 10% below the cost because carrying the dresses costs the store in terms of storage space and funds tied up in the inventories. The balance date is 31 December 2019. Summer ends in February. At 31 December 2019, the store has 10,000 dresses. Based on its past experiences, it expects to sell 20% of ...
You are asked to write an individual essay based on your own individual research about a topic relating to one or more of the targets identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If your topic does not relate to specific targets of the SDGs, you may be penalized up to 25% of the full assessment grade for this essay: Develop a research question or argument, support your argument with research, and provide a conclusion. (Hint: use you...
Task: After working as a financial accountant for several years, you decide to apply for a position you learned about during a virtual career fair offered by UMGC’s Career Services. The most prestigious accounting firm in the District of Columbia, Levin, Lombard, & Wolod, LLC, were looking to hire several accountants and preferred UMGC graduates given the reputation of its graduate accounting programs. Shortly after the virtual fair, y...
Question: Exposure Management Strategy Instruction Write 2-page, double-spaced, answering the questions in the file below. Your analysis for the case should be from all different angles but make it concise and straight to the point.Please type your answers immediately below each question.You may attach exhibits to support your arguments. Porsche Exposed Case Study BMW says that its decisions on where it locates production are...
Task Kendall Square Research Corporation (A) Kendall Square Research Corporation (KSR) was founded in 1986 by Henry Burkhardt III and Steve Frank, another computer designer. KSR was the third computer company co-founded by Burkhardt—the first two having been Data General Corporation and Encore Computer Corporation. At KSR, Burkhardt chose a radical design for a supercomputer that would make the machines attractive for both government an...
Questions: Explain Teamwork And Its Importance. Please Add At Least 2 Examples To Show How Different Departments Work Together And Share Information With Each Other Explain Financial Management And Its Importance For Any Organisation. o Explain Reporting And Its Purpose For Any Organisation. Also Explain Any 2 Documents That Organisation Used For Reporting Purposes. Balance Sheet Profit And Toss Account Cash Flow Statement ...
Context: This assessment allows students to solve practical problems that arise from a fact scenario and to give appropriate advice to clients. Instructions: There are five case studies you are required to critically analyse. With respect to each case study: 1.Identify the legal issue(s) arising from the facts of the case study 2. Identify the appropriate legal rules that requires discussion in the case study 3.Apply the law to the facts of...
Task: Tanglewood is seeking to hire a new manager for its flagship store in Spokane and has collected data on applicants using four predictors/selection devices. Your task is to use the information obtained from applicants’ résumés and three additional predictors to select two finalists. You will not be selecting the best candidate, only identifying two finalists. These finalists will then be assessed further through structur...
Questions: Singapore Airlines This project aims to test your understanding of the management accounting concepts taught in the course and ability to apply them to analyse business issues. In real life, you will not have complete and unambiguous information to make decisions and therefore you will have to make assumptions in your analysis. E.g. assumptions on how much of an expenditure is variable, appropriate cost of capital, etc.). Yo...