HOLMES INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T2 2019
Unit Code HI5020
Unit Title Corporate Accounting
Assessment Type Individual Assignment
Assessment Title Qualifications and experiences that employers seek from Corporate Accountants
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO
Mapping) This assignment aims at developing a clear understanding of students on what qualifications and experiences employers seek from Corporate Accountants. Students will have to search and collect a significant number of job advertisements posted by employers in the electronic or print media or in the job search portals throughput the first 8 weeks of their trimester. Based on the collected job advertisements, they will have answer a series of questions and evaluate the qualifications and experiences sought in those advertisements with the learnings objectives, outcomes and contents of the subject.
(ULO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
Weight 30 % of the total assessments
Total Marks 30
Word limit 3000 words ±500 words
Due Date
Assignment submission: Final Submission of individual Assignment: 11:59 pm Friday, Week 10
Late submission incurs penalties of five (5) % of the assessment value per calendar day unless an extension and/or special consideration has been granted by the lecturer prior to the assessment deadline.
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.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.
HI5020 Corporate Accounting Group Assignment T1 2019
Assignment Specifications Purpose:
This assignment aims at developing a clear understanding of students on what qualifications and experiences employers seek from Corporate Accountants. Students will have to search and collect a significant number of job advertisements posted by employers in the electronic or print media or in the job search portals throughput the first 8 weeks of their trimester. Based on the collected job advertisements, they will have answer a series of questions and evaluate the qualifications and experiences sought in those advertisements with the learnings objectives, outcomes and contents of the subject.
Assessment task:
Collect as many job advertisements as possible on the position of ‘corporate accountant’, ‘corporate and management accountant’ ‘senior accountant’, ‘tax accountant’, ‘corporate financial accountant’ ‘corporate financial and management accountant’, ‘accountant corporate finance’, ‘senior financial accountant’ ‘senior accountant: tax and corporate reporting’ or any other similar positions published by Australian employers in electronic or print media or in job search portals (such as seek, Jora, Indeed etc.) from the first week of the Trimester to the week 7 of the Trimester.
Based on your collected advertisements, do the following tasks:
1. How many job advertisements you have collected in total? How many job advertisements you have collected from each sources.
2. Lists the name of the organisations posting the job advertisements and show the industry breakdown of the organisations posting the job advertisements.
3. List all the job titles mentioned in the advertisements that you have collected.
4. List all the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements that you have collected.
5. List all the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements that you have collected with your detailed understanding of each of the attributes.
6. List all the academic and professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed in the advertisements that you have collected.
7. Based on the key roles, tasks, responsibilities identified from your collected job advertisements, how those key roles, tasks or responsibilities are related to the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting.
8. What additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement.
9. Critically examine the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. Also critically evaluate how the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting have helped you in gaining the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant.
Assignment Structure should be as the following:
Abstract - One paragraph
List of Content
Introduction
Body of the assignment with detailed answer on each of the required tasks
Summary/Conclusion
List of references
…..
Marking criteria
Marking criteria Weighting
Abstract 1%
List of content & overall presentation of the assignment 1%
Introduction 1%
How many job advertisements you have collected in total? How many job advertisements you have collected from each sources. 1%
Lists the name of the organisations posting the job advertisements and show the industry breakdown of the organisations posting the job advertisements. 2%
List all the job titles mentioned in the advertisements that you have collected. 2%
List all the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements that you have collected with your detailed understanding of each of the attributes. 2%
List all the key roles, tasks, responsibilities of a corporate accountant that have been listed in the advertisements that you have collected and analysed. 4%
List all the academic and professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed in the advertisements that you have collected. 2%
Based on the key roles, tasks, responsibilities identified from your collected job advertisements, how those key roles, tasks or responsibilities are related to the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting. 5%
What additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement. 3%
Critically examine the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. Also critically evaluate how the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting have helped you in gaining the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. 5%
Conclusion 1%
TOTAL Weight 30%
Marking Rubric
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
How many job advertisements you have collected in
total? How many
job advertisements you have collected from each sources. A large number of job
advertisements have been
analysed with
identification of
sources of each individual advertisements A large number of job
advertisements have been
analysed.
Sources of these advertisements have been
mentioned without
individual identification A large number of job
advertisements have been
analysed.
Sources of these advertisement have not been mentioned A small number of job
advertisement
s have been
analysed
without
identifying the sources of these
advertisement
s A few job advertisement s have been
analysed. No sources have been identified.
Lists the name of the organisations posting the job
advertisements and show the industry
breakdown of the organisations
posting the job advertisements. The organisations posting the job advertisement
has been listed
with their detail industry break down shown. The organisation posting the job advertisement
has been listed. Industry breakdown has been attempted but not complete. The organisation
posting the job advertisement
has been listed.
No industry break-down has
been shown The organisation
posting the job advertisement
has been listed
incompletely. No industry break-down
has been shown The organisation
posting the job
advertisement
has not been
listed. No industry
break-down
has been shown
List all the job titles mentioned in the
advertisements that you have collected. In the advertisement, corporate
accountants may be identified
under different titles. All the
relevant titles have been
identified and listed. All the relevant titles have been identified and listed. Relevant titles have been
identified, list is incomplete. An attempts was made to list the titles
mentioned in the job
advertisement
. Did not answer the
question or
misunderstoo d the question.
List all the personal attributes required from a corporate
accountant that have been
mentioned in the
job advertisements that you have
collected with your detailed
understanding of each of the attributes. A good number of personal
attributes
required to be a corporate
accountant have
been identified from the job
advertisements with detail
explanation of each attribute. A good number of personal
attributes
required to be a corporate
accountant have
been identified from the job
advertisements.
Explanation of a few attributes have been provided. A good number of personal
attributes
required to be a corporate
accountant
have been
identified from the job
advertisements.
No explanation has been
provided for any of the attributes A small number
personal
attributes
required to be a corporate accountant
have been
identified from the job
advertisement
s. No
explanation has been
provided for any of the attributes Only few/no personal
attributes
have been
identified. No
explanation has been provided.
List all the key roles, tasks,
responsibilities of a corporate
accountant that
have been listed in
the advertisements that you have collected and analysed. A good number of key roles, tasks or
responsibilities of a corporate
accountant that have been
mentioned in the job
advertisements have been identified.
Detailed explanations
have been
provided for each
of the identified roles, tasks or responsibilities. A good number
of key roles, tasks or responsibilities of a corporate
accountant that have been
mentioned in the job
advertisements have been identified.
Explanation has been provided
for a few of the
identified roles, tasks or
responsibilities. A good number of key roles, tasks or
responsibilities of a corporate
accountant that have been
mentioned in the job
advertisements have been
identified. No
explanation has
been provided for the
identified roles, tasks or
responsibilities. A small number of key roles, tasks or
responsibilities
of a corporate
accountant
that have been
mentioned in the job
advertisement s have been
identified. No
explanation has been
provided for
the identified
roles, tasks or responsibilities
. Only few/no key roles,
tasks or
responsibilities
of a corporate
accountant
that have been
mentioned in the job
advertisement s have been
identified. No
explanation has been provided.
List all the academic and professional
qualifications of a corporate
accountant that
have been listed in
the advertisements that you have collected. All the academic and professional qualifications
required for a corporate
accountants have been identified
and listed being
informed by the job
advertisements. All the academic and professional qualifications
required for a corporate
accountants have been identified and listed. A list of
academic and professional
qualifications
required for a corporate
accountants have been
identified and listed without
linking them to the job
advertisements An attempts has been
made to list
the academic and
professional
qualifications needed to become a corporate
accountant
but was not
complete and
linked to the job
advertisement Has failed to identify and list the
academic and professional
qualifications
required to become a corporate accountant.
Based on the key roles, tasks,
responsibilities
identified from your collected job
advertisements, how those key
roles, tasks or
responsibilities are
related to the topics that you have
learned in your
MPA unit HI5020
Corporate
Accounting. Have
demonstrated an excellent understanding of the relation of the topics included in the
MPA unit HI5020
Corporate
Accounting with the key roles, tasks or
responsibilities of a corporate Accountant identified from the job advertisements. Have demonstrated a very good
understanding of
the relation of the topics
included in the
MPA unit HI5020 Corporate
Accounting with the key roles, tasks or
responsibilities of a corporate
Accountant identified from the job
advertisements. Have demonstrated a
good level of
understanding of the relation of the topics
included in the
MPA unit HI5020
Corporate
Accounting with the key roles, tasks or
responsibilities
of a corporate
Accountant identified from Have demonstrated a very basic or just
acceptable
level of
understanding of the relation of the topics
included in the
MPA unit HI5020
Corporate
Accounting with the key
roles, tasks or
responsibilities of a corporate Have demonstrated a poor or no
level of
understanding of the relation of the topics
included in the
MPA unit HI5020
Corporate
Accounting with the key
roles, tasks or
responsibilities
of a corporate
Accountant identified
the job advertisements. Accountant identified from the job
advertisement
s. from the job
advertisement
s.
What additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes
are missing from your MPA unit
HI5020 Corporate
Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement.
What needs to be added or what needs to be omitted? Excellent discussions on
the limitations of
MPA Unit HI5020 Corporate
Accounting. Have identified the
topics that need to be added or
omitted with excellent
informed
reasoning
provided in line with the job advertisements. Very good discussions on
the limitations of
MPA Unit HI5020
Corporate Accounting has been provided.
Have clearly identified the
topics that need to be added or omitted. Have shown a good reasoning. A good discussions on
the limitations
of MPA Unit
HI5020
Corporate Accounting has been provided.
Have clearly identified the
topics that need to be added or
omitted without providing any reasoning. Or
the reasoning is
not informed by the job
advertisement. A very basic or just
acceptable
discussions on
the limitations
of MPA Unit
HI5020
Corporate
Accounting has been
provided.
Have mentioned a
few topics that need to be added or omitted
without
providing any reasoning. Very poor or no discussion on the
limitations of
MPA Unit HI5020
Corporate
Accounting has been
provided.
Have not identified any topic that
need to be added or
omitted from
the MPA unit
HI5020 Corporate
Accounting.
Critically examine the skills,
experience and
attributes needed to become a
corporate
accountant. Also
critically evaluate
how the topics that
you have learned in your MPA unit
HI5020 Corporate
Accounting have helped you in
gaining the skills, experience and
attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. An excellent discussion on the
skills, experience
and attributes needed to become a corporate
accountant. The discussion is
informed by the job
advertisements
analysed. Have provided excellent
discussion linking the skills,
experience and attributes
learned in HI5020
Corporate
Accounting A very good discussion on the skills, experience
and attributes needed to become a corporate
accountant. The discussion is
informed by the job
advertisements analysed. Have provided good
discussion linking the skills,
experience and attributes
learned in HI5020 Corporate
Accounting. A good discussion on the skills,
experience and attributes
needed to become a corporate
accountant. The discussion is
informed by the job
advertisements analysed. Have attempted to link the skills,
experience and attributes
learned in HI5020
Corporate
Accounting. A very basic or just
acceptable
discussion on the skills,
experience
and attributes needed to become a corporate
accountant.
The discussion is not
informed by the job
advertisement
s analysed. A very basic
attempt to link the skills,
experience
and attributes learned in HI5020
Corporate
Accounting. Very poor or no discussion has been
provided on the skills,
experience
and attributes needed to become a corporate
accountant.
The discussion is not
informed by the job
advertisement s analysed. No
attempt to link the skills,
experience
and attributes learned in HI5020
Corporate
Accounting.
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