Assessment Item: Written Assessment (2,500 words MAX, 30%)
Topic: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Please go to the following article published on The Conversation: Brexit is done, now what about accounting?. Read the article and respond to the following questions.
1. Investigate and write a brief history of the IFRS (1,000 words, 10 marks).
2. Select any country and report on its current accounting regulatory framework and its progress towards standardizing on IFRS (1,500 words, 20 marks).
Assessment criteria
Your submission will be assessed as follows:
• Quality of your academic research and writing: 24 marks.
• Quality of your written English: 3 marks.
• Quality of your presentation: 3 marks.
Please note that Harvard is the required style of referencing. As postgraduate students you are expected to have a good knowledge of referencing. Failure to provide full and accurate referencing can lead to a marking penalty of up to 5 marks, or you may be reported for academic misconduct.

How to do Literature review…………
A literature review is an evaluative report of information found in the literature related to your selected area of study. The review should describe, summarise, evaluate and clarify this literature. It should give a theoretical base for the research and help you (the author) determine the nature of your research. Works which are irrelevant should be discarded and those which are peripheral should be looked at critically.
A literature review is more than the search for information, and goes beyond being a descriptive annotated bibliography. All works included in the review must be read, evaluated and analysed (which you would do for an annotated bibliography), but relationships between the literature must also be identified and articulated, in relation to your field of research.
-In writing the literature review, the purpose is to convey to the reader what knowledge and ideas have been established on a topic, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. The literature review must be defined by a guiding concept (eg. your research objective, the problem or issue you are discussing, or your argumentative thesis). It is not just a descriptive list of the material available, or a set of summaries.
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