HOLMES INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T2 2021
Unit Code HI5017
Unit Title Managerial Accounting
Assessment Type Individual Assignment
Assessment Title Reflective Report
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) The purpose of this assessment is to ensure each student is able to provide a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as it relates to fulfilling the learning outcomes of this unit. (ULO 1, 2 and 4).
Weight 10% of the total assessments
Total Marks 10
Word limit 1,000 words. Please use “word count” and include the word count in the assignment cover page.
Due Date Week 11 Thursday, 30 September 2021 at 11.59 p.m.
Submission Guidelines • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers.
• It is the responsibility of the student who is submitting the work, to ensure that the work is, in fact, her/his own work. Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work without appropriate acknowledgement is an academic offence. Students should submit all assignments for plagiarism checking on Blackboard before final submission in the subject. For further details, please refer to the Unit Outline and Student Handbook.
Adapted Harvard Referencing
Holmes has now implemented a revised Harvard approach to referencing:
1. Reference sources in assignments are limited to sources which provide full text access to the source’s content for lecturers and markers.
2. The Reference list should be located on a separate page at the end of the essay and titled: References.
3. It should include the details of all the in-text citations, arranged alphabetically A-Z by author surname. In addition, it MUST include a hyperlink to the full text of the cited reference source.
For example:
Hawking, P., McCarthy, B. and Stein, A. (2004), Second Wave ERP Education, Journal of Information Systems Education, Fall,
http://jise.org/Volume15/n3/JISEv15n3p327.pdf
4. All assignments will require additional in-text reference details which will consist of the surname of the author/authors or name of the authoring body, year of publication, page number of contents, paragraph where the content can be found.
For example,
“The company decided to implement an enterprise wide data warehouse business intelligence strategies (Hawking et al, 2004, p3(4)).”
Non - Adherence to Referencing Guidelines Where students do not follow the above guidelines:
1. Students who submit assignments which do not comply with the guidelines may be required to resubmit their assignments or incur penalties for inadequate referencing.
2. Late penalties will apply per day after a student or group has been notified of a resubmission requirement.
• Students whose citations are fake will be reported for academic misconduct.
Individual Reflective Report Specifications
Assignment Task:
In this reflective report, you will be discussing about your learning experience in this unit, the relevance of the unit material and assessments in the unit to your understanding of management accounting in general, and your understanding of how management accounting concepts and techniques assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems.
Specifically, you are to provide reflections or comments on each of the following:
1. Comment on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future? (4 marks)
2. Comment on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting, what was challenging and what did you learn from it? (3 marks)
3. Comment on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it? (3 marks)
Assignment Structure:
The reflective report should include the following components:
a. Assignment Cover Page clearly stating your name and student number b. Table of contents
c. A brief introduction or overview of what the assignment is about
d. Body of the assignment with the written answers
e. Conclusion
f. List of References (if applicable) - follow the Holmes Adapted Harvard Referencing guidelines on pg. 1-2.
Marking criteria:
Marking criteria Weighting
1. Comment on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future? 4%
2. Comment on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it? 3%
3. Comment on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it? 3%
TOTAL Weight 10%
Academic Integrity
Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding Academic Integrity, as Academic Integrity is integral to maintaining academic quality and the reputation of Holmes’ graduates. Accordingly, all assessment tasks need to comply with academic integrity guidelines. Table 1 identifies the six categories of Academic Integrity breaches. If you have any questions about Academic Integrity issues related to your assessment tasks, please consult your lecturer or tutor for relevant referencing guidelines and support resources. Many of these resources can also be found through the Study Sills link on Blackboard.
Academic Integrity breaches are a serious offence punishable by penalties that may range from deduction of marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of course enrolment.
Table 1: Six categories of Academic Integrity breaches
Plagiarism Reproducing the work of someone else without attribution. When a student submits their own work on multiple occasions this is known as self-plagiarism.
Collusion Working with one or more other individuals to complete an assignment, in a way that is not authorised.
Copying Reproducing and submitting the work of another student, with or without their knowledge. If a student fails to take reasonable precautions to prevent their own original work from being copied, this may also be considered an offence.
Impersonation Falsely presenting oneself, or engaging someone else to present as oneself, in an in-person examination.
Contract cheating Contracting a third party to complete an assessment task, generally in exchange for money or other manner of payment.
Data fabrication and falsification Manipulating or inventing data with the intent of supporting false conclusions, including manipulating images.
Source: INQAAHE, 2020
Marking Rubric
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Comment on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future? (4 marks) (3.6 – 4 marks) Excellent comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future. (2.9 – 3.5marks) Very good comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future. (2.1 – 2.8 marks)
Good comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future. (1.6 - 2 marks) Reasonable comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future. (0 – 1.5 mark) Unable to present proper comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future, or is confusing.
Comment on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it? (3 marks) (2.1 – 3 marks) Excellent comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it. (1.9 - 2 marks) Very good comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it. (1.6 – 1.8 marks)
Good comments on what you learned from the
individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it. (1.1 – 1.5marks) Reasonable comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it. (0 - 1 marks) Unable to present proper comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting
and what did you learn from it, or is confusing.
Comment on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you
learn from it (3 marks) (2.1 – 3 marks) Excellent comments on what you learned about the various
management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist
managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it.
(1.9 - 2 marks) Very good comments on what you learned about the various
management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist
managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you
learn from it
(1.6 – 1.8 marks)
Good comments on what you learned about the various
management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist
managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it
(1.1 – 1.5marks) Reasonable comments on what you learned about the various
management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist
managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you
learn from it
(0 - 1 marks) Unable to present proper comments on what you learned about the various
management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist
managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting
and what did you learn from it, or is confusing.
Total Marks (10) /10