Reference no: EM132413191 , Length: word count:1500
Written Report Assessment -
Purpose: This assessment is designed to reinforce the subject content and develop students' skills and application of knowledge of the subject content to business situations.
Topic: This assignment covers contemporary theoretical concepts with practical accounting task application based on the topics from the subject.
Company name - WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION
Task Details: Students are required to select an ASX corporation, reference the annual report for the last 2 years and identify ways that the corporation has used earnings management techniques. Students are required to indicate what might be the possible motivation for earnings management in their chosen corporation. Students will review general purpose financial report material, company releases, media, and other sources. Students must prepare a comprehensive report directed to this research. It is expected that academic and non-academic content will form an integral part of this report.
Presentation: Report - 1,500 word report. The word count excludes the cover sheet, contents page, references, appendices, and illustrations (e.g. diagrams, graphs and tables). Students need to stay within the assigned word limits, and indicate the word count on the cover page of the assignment.
The report should be typed double spaced, using Times New Roman font size of either 10 point or 12 point. Every page should be clearly numbered.
The assignment should include the following parts
A title / cover page, which indicates basic information such as Subject title, Subject code, Trimester number, Assignment title, group members' full names and KOI student numbers, word count and name of the tutor;
Executive Summary;
Table of Contents;
Main contents - Introduction, analysis using suitable headings and subheadings, Conclusions and Recommendations, Appendices (if any); References (using Harvard - Anglia style); and/or Attachments.
Attachment:- Assignment File.rar