ACCT3011 Financial Accounting B Semester 2, 2022
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ACCT3011
Financial Accounting B
Semester 2, 2022
Group Assignment
General information:
• Completion of this assignment is compulsory. The assignment should be submitted as a word document in electronic form only using the ‘Turnitin’ assessment portal on Canvas. No submissions will be accepted via email. Please ensure only one submission for each group.
• Due date: 4pm 20 October 2022 (Thursday, Week 11). If you submit after the due date will incur a late penalty of 5% of the total marks per 24 hour period, or part thereof, late. Furthermore, any assignment submitted after the closing date of 4pm 30 October 2022, will not be marked and, therefore, result in a mark of zero.
• Responses will be considered on their ability to present relevant information and develop well supported arguments. Do not submit a series of dot points. Your response should be presented in an extended narrative format.
• T o provide students with feedback, your assignment will be graded against the assessment criteria included in Appendix 1 to this assignment.
Format:
• 12 point font, Times New Roman, paragraphs formatted with 1.5 line spacing, and with margins of 2.5cm. This assignment must be done in ‘Word’ or other text format program. Do not use ‘Excel’ or other non-text programs to do this assignment.
• Your responses are required to adhere to the provided word count guidance for each question. You may also provide any bibliography/reference list and this will not be word counted. Any work above the suggested word count will not be marked. You will note that the unit of study outline specifies 1500 words in total; here we have
reinterpreted this into a word count guidance for each question, all using the font and spacing as per the preceding dot point. It is each group ’s responsibility to ensure these requirements are complied with.
• Your assignment must be appropriately and properly referenced using the American Psychological Association referencing style (or APA as it is more commonly known). The University of Sydney library provides helpful guidance on using APA style referencing,
http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/c.php?g=508212&p=3476096
You can also refer to Other Resources on the ACCT 3011 Canvas site for additional guidance.
• In the footer ofyour word document you must show SID for each group member and include page numbers. For example, ‘123456789, 123456789, … ..page 1” . Other guidance on how to submit using Turnitin is provided in the assessment folder on Canvas. The filename of your submitted assignment should also be in the format of “Your tutor name + Your tutorial time + Your group. For example, “Kaiying2pmGroupA.doc” .
• As a student at the University, you are responsible for taking part in your education in an honest and authentic manner. It is therefore expected that you take extra care to ensure that there are no breaches of academic honesty. All assignments will be manually and electronically checked for plagiarism (copying). Any perceived breaches of academic honesty will be referred to the Office of Educational Integrity for further investigation and penalised if verified. You can read more information on what plagiarism is and how to avoid plagiarism from the University link:
https://sydney.edu.au/students/academic-dishonesty.html
• All sources of support for the assignment must be acknowledged. Failure to acknowledge such support may potentially breach the University’s academic honesty requirements.
• If necessary, students are advised to refer to the special consideration advice contained in the Administration Manual for Students on the Faculty website: https://business.sydney.edu.au/students/policy.
Grade Descriptors:
Due to the specific nature of this assignment, students are advised that generic submissions will not score high marks. The following can at best be considered as a general indication, assuming consistency in quality of component parts.
High Distinction The attempted solution substantially exceeds minimal requirements, and is consistent and coherent. It excels in substantive content and demonstrates professional communication skills. It reflects consideration of your own well developed perspectives and is framed in your own words.
Distinction The attempted solution substantially exceeds minimal requirements across most tasks and through effective communication demonstrates a strong understanding of the accounting issues and relevant accounting requirements. Good development of your own perspectives.
Credit The attempted solution exceeds minimal requirements across most tasks, but is less well developed, less framing in your own words (e.g. dull reproduction of slabs of text from others), some errors or omissions in application.
Pass A minimal standard is reached across various aspects of the task. Fail The task is not completed. The solution does not reflect an appropriate understanding of the question/assigned task. Poorly developed responses.
Questions about the Assignment:
Students are required to post all assignment queries to the Group Assignment Forum on Canvas. This is the required form of communication as it provides an opportunity for all students to have access to the same information. Unit of Study teaching staff will not answer questions during lectures, tutorial or in consultation times.
The assignment
Background information for questions 1-3:
Let’s return to VegLux Ltd (“VegLux”), a fruit and vegetable retail business (the imagined company that was the subject of your individual assignment). You will recall that VegLux Ltd has issued 100 ordinary shares, and as at 30 June 2021, 40 of those shares were held by VegPro Ltd (“VegPro”), 40 were held by VegWorks Ltd (“VegWorks”), and the remaining 20 were held by two shareholders with 10 shares each. VegPro is a fruit and vegetable grower, owning several of its own farms. VegWorks is a fruit and vegetable process factory that manufactures salad, juice and jam products.
As you know, due to the global pandemic and consequential closure of retail stores, VegLux has made substantial losses in FY2021. Further to the advice you offered in the individual assignment, you are now advised that VegPro’s board of directors argued at 30 June 2021, that:
“VegLux should be classified as an associate rather than a subsidiary as at 30 June 2021. In so doing, those losses can be concealed from the investor’s financial statements. This is not only in the best interests of the directors, but also in the best interests of the shareholders as we wouldn’t want them to panic unnecessarily. This approach also aligns most sensibly with the ‘true and fair’ requirement of the Corporations Act as we will be ensuring the financial statements do not raise unnecessary alarm bells for the investors, which is what they want.”
Required:
1. Contrast the indicators of “significant influence” and “control” included in AASB 10 and 128. Explain how financial statement preparers would discern between the two. Note, our requirement here is for you to contrast key differences in your own words; we do not simply want a reproduction of the stated definitions. (word limit guidance – we suggest no more than 300 words for part 1)
2. Explain your perspective on what true and fair means and comment critically on the arguments provided by the VegPro’s board of directors. (word limit guidance – we suggest no more than 300 words for part 2)
3. Assume you are the group accountant of the VegPro Group. Contrast how VegPro Group’s financial statements would differ if VegLux were to be classified as a subsidiary to VegPro, versus as an associate. In your response, explain how accounting for the following would differ:
a. VegPro’s investment in VegLux;
b. Goodwill in the VegPro Group;
c. Intra-group transactions. Note, VegLux pays an annual management fee to VegPro for access to business support and various other administrative resources.
d. Assume that VegLux continues to hold a depreciable asset, which had a fair value greater than its carrying value, at the date that VegPro acquired its 40% interest.
(word limit guidance – we suggest no more than 600 words for all answers to question 3 combined).
4. AASB8 paragraph 5 defines an operating segment as a component of an entity:
that engages in business activities; (ii) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the Chief Operating Decision Maker; and (iii) for which discrete financial information is available.
Required:
Explain some of the flexibilities in AASB8 that allow for variable presentation of a reporting entity’s segment disclosure note. How and why might management be motivated to seek to opportunistically draw on these flexibilities? (no more than 300 words)
Appendix I. Assessment criteria
Question |
Assessment guide |
Mark |
Question 1 |
Discussion about the differences between control and significant influence |
/6 |
Question 2 |
a) Discussion on true and fair b) Critical discussion on VegPro’s statement |
/3 /3 |
Question 3 |
b(a) VegPro’s investment in VegLux c) Intra-group management fee d) Fair value adjustment for a depreciable asset |
/2 /2 /2 /2 |
Question 4 |
a) Discussion about flexibilities in AASB 8 b) Discussion on the motivations of management seek to opportunistically draw on these flexibilities to affect segment disclosures |
/3 /3 |
Communication |
Communication, style, clarity of expression including spelling, grammar, punctuation and proper referencing using APA style |
/4 |
Final mark |
Converted to 10% of the total mark for ACCT3011 |
/30 |
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