Analyse current accounting issues

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Task - In your accounting career you will be required to analyse current accounting issues and communicate your theoretical understanding to your professional colleagues and your clients. For this assignment assume that you are the senior accountant working for a major firm.

Question 1 - The CEO has forwarded to you an interesting article and requires you to provide her with a deeper theoretical understanding of the issues discussed so that she can fully engage in the lively discourse at an upcoming conference.

You are required to find a newspaper article or web page report of an item of accounting news, i.e. it refers to a current event, consideration, comment or decision that has been published after the 1st of June 2017. Your article could also come from one of the professional journals. The article should not come from an academic journal. Academic journals generally do not contain news articles or articles of less than one page and are usually only published 2 or 4 times a year. If you are having a problem ensuring that your article is from an appropriate source contact your subject coordinator.

You then need to explain the article that you have found in your own words and clearly relate the concepts, ideas and facts within the article to one or more of the theories or topics that you have studied this session. Support your analysis of the assumptions and implications of the topic or theory as appropriate with reference to sources in APA 6 style. For example, this article from the Sydney Morning Herald in April 2016 could be linked to the topics of accounting regulation and measurement (and perhaps others). You must provide a copy of the article or web page, with details of the source, date and page number with your answer.

Question 2 - The Senior Partner of the firm you work for has appointed you to a new role. It is now your responsibility to review upcoming accounting standards and provide a report to the partners on the proposed standard and the opinions of other industry players on the changes.

Firstly, you are required to find a current exposure draft or proposal for a new accounting standard which has been opened for public comments. (These can be found on the websites of most standard-setting organisations, such as the IASB, AASB and FASB. Hint: These websites can be quite difficult to navigate, so as a first step try typing "IASB exposure draft and comment letters"/"FASB exposure draft and comment letters" into Google or other search engine of your choice). Read a sample of the comments from a range of respondents. Select four respondents, ideally from different types of organisations for example, from accounting bodies, industry, companies or corporate bodies. If you are having a problem finding suitable comments letters then contact your subject coordinator.

In your own words, supporting your evaluation with appropriate citations, appropriately referenced in APA 6 style, you are required to include the following information in the report.

An outline of the major issues covered in the exposure draft (what is the exposure draft introducing or changing?).
An assessment as to whether (or not) the behaviour of the regulator in introducing the exposure draft can be explained by public interest theory.
An outline of the views presented in the comments letters which highlights the areas of agreement and disagreement with the exposure draft.
An assessment as to whether the comments letters can be interpreted as being 'for' or 'against' regulation which provides relevant examples.
An application of each of the theories of regulation (public interest, private interest and capture) to the comments letters and a justification as to which theory best explains the comments.

Please note: you need to attach the comment letters you selected for your report (there is no need to attach the exposure draft)

Academic Writing and Referencing - Content assessed: Accounting regulation, current financial reporting issues and topics(s) that your research is related to.

Key generic skills: Research, critical thinking and written communication.

Rationale - This assessment is designed to test your ability to:

communicate your understanding of the topic areas; and
be able to critically evaluate selected current financial reporting and management accounting issues (SLO4).

Prescribed text: Deegan, C. (2014). Financial accounting theory (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill: Sydney.

Topics covered are

1. The nature, construction and verification of theories

2. The History of Accounting - A theoretical perspective

3. Measurement in accounting

4. Normative accounting theories

5. Accounting regulation and politics

6. The standard setting process

7. International Accounting

8. Positive accounting theory

9. Critical perspective in accounting

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len1650841

9/20/2017 6:12:31 AM

Australian student, total 3000 words, it should be perfect work. I have to get good marks to pass. Question 1 - Description with in depth discussion and identification of all the key issues. Response identifies a range of relevant topics and theories and is able to deconstruct and evaluate the issues through the use of theories and arrive at a logical position, for example by synthesizing the insights of different theories. Response critically evaluates the underlying assumptions and implications of the applied theories or topics. Exemplary use of relevant sources from within prescribed materials and attempts to include sources beyond prescribed material.

len1650841

9/20/2017 6:12:24 AM

Question 2 - Thorough identification and elaboration of all the key issues. Response provides an indepth application the public interest theory to the exposure draft and provides a thorough justification that critically evaluates the relevance of the theory to the behaviour of the regulator. All of the key areas of conjecture are described in depth and this is supported by evidence from comment letters. Response identifies a range of appropriate examples of comments letters are thoroughly justified as being for or against the existence of accounting regulation. Response clearly applies all of the theories to the various issues in the comment letters and provides a well developed justification that critically evaluates the relevance of the theories to the issue.

len1650841

9/20/2017 6:12:18 AM

Response critically evaluates all the underlying assumptions of the theories and perspectives of regulation. Exemplary use of relevant sources from within prescribed materials and attempts to include sources beyond prescribed material. Accurate use of syntax, spelling and punctuation. A sophisticated vocabulary is appropriately used. Answer is logically structured with arguments coherently developed and supported. Reference list included with correct adherence to referencing guidelines. Correct in-text referencing is provided.

len1650841

9/20/2017 6:11:55 AM

Presentation - The following points are a general guide for presenting assessment items. Assessment items should be typed. Use 1.5 spacing. Use a wide left margin. Markers need space to be able to include their comments. Use a standard 12pt font such as Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial. Left- justify body text. Include a separate title page with your name, student number, subject code, assessment number and assessment question. Include class time and tutor’s name if applicable. Number your pages (except the cover page). Use a header or footer with your name and student number on each page. Always keep a copy of your assessments. Both a hard copy and an electronic copy. Most importantly, always use your spelling and grammar checker, but remember that this does not pick up all errors. You must still manually and carefully edit your work. Requirements - For this assessment you are required to use APA 6 referencing to acknowledge the sources that you have used in preparing your assessment.

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