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BSBFIM601 Manage finances
Assessment Task 1: Assignment
Plan for financial management
Question- 1:
a) Explain in one paragraph what is the purpose of conservatism?
) Take time to explore the AASB’s website at www.aasb.gov.au and the two key
accounting that are directly relevant to gathering revenue data for statutory
ecording and reporting, please explain in a paragraph?
c) According to the AASB, what does a set of financial statements comprise?
d) Review the features of off-the-shelf business management and accounting software
products.
Question -2:
a) Calculate the revenue, gross profit and net profit margins for these products.
Product COGS/
unit
Fixed
costs/unit
Selling
price/unit
Gross
profit/un
it
Units
sold
Revenue Gross profit
margin
Net profit
margin
Front
pocket
wallet
$27.00 $16.00 $89.00 $ XXXXXXXXXX
Compact
smart
phone
wallet
$29.00 $17.00 $99.00 $ XXXXXXXXXX
) What is the formula for calculating the contribution margin?
c) When calculating the contribution margin, why are only variable costs considered?
d) In what three ways does horizontal analysis look at the change in each item of the
financial statements?
Question- 3:
Explore the ATO’s website, visiting the sections for business, non-profit organizations and
superannuation.
a) What are the due dates for lodging and paying an organization’s business activity
statement (BAS) online?
) What are the due dates for an organization’s lodgment of their income tax return?
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Establish budgets and allocate funds
Question -4:
a) What are the three budgets and budgeted statements should an organization’s
matter budget include to ensure effective decision-making and probity and to meet
statutory and legislative requirements?
) Explain the difference between incremental and zero-based budgeting methods.
c) Is zero–based Budgeting a more appropriate method of allocating resources for
organizations with new strategies requiring new organizational activities? Explain
your answer in a paragraph
Question-5:
a) What is the formula to calculate an organization’s net cash position?
) During the budget development processes, when are qualitative methods more
commonly used?
c) Conduct research into appropriate qualitative and quantitative forecasting methods.
i. Provide two examples of qualitative analysis techniques or tools.
ii. Provide two examples of quantitative analysis techniques or tools.
d) In preparing the expenses budget, should the variable costs be excluded? Why or
why not?
Question- 6:
Explain in a paragraph, why it is essential that budgets are clearly explained to all staff, and
why managers must use active listening techniques to do so.
Implement budgets
Question-7:
a) Conduct research on ‘due diligence ‘. Explain the difference between supplier due
diligence and customer due diligence.
) Explain the value of supplier due diligence in managing procurement risk.
Question- 8:
What measures might you implement if your analysis of the payables ageing summary
identified that the organization is consistently late in paying bills?
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Report of finances
Question -9:
a) According to the ‘AASB Standard 101 Presentation of Financial Statements’, what is
the purpose of a supporting note?
) Access the Standard Business Reporting website at: www.s
.gov.au, then explain
what the Australian Reporting Dictionary is.
Question- 10:
In one paragraph, explain the importance of reviewing and improving internal financial
controls.
Microsoft Word - BSBFIM601 Assessment Task 2 v2.1
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BSBFIM601 Manage Finance
Assessment Task 2: Assignment
Question 1
a) Explain in a paragraph the relationship between Australian Accounting Standards and
accounting principles.
) Define ‘financial probity’.
c) Why does the balance sheet not provide an accurate picture of the organization’s
profitability?
d) What is the value of performing
eakeven analysis?
e) Why may an organization be required for and remit fringe benefits tax (FBT)? Where are
FBT payments recorded in the organization’s chart of accounts?
f) What ratio would you use to analyse trends in an organization’s cash flow over a
number of periods? Why?
Question 2
In this section you are required to consider the implementation of budgets for your
organization, or one that you are familiar with. This may be an organization that you have
previously worked for or one that you are in close contact with, such as your training
provider, a not-for-profit organization you volunteer for, or a sporting or social club.
a) Document the organizational planning and financial cycle.
) Assess your organization’s business and accounting software’s ability to meet
organizational and statutory requirements. Outline your findings.
c) Review your organization’s most recent profit and loss statement. If you are
eviewing the statements of an organization that you do not cu
ently work for,
locate its annual report and make your calculations based on the information from
the annual statements. Calculate the organization’s:
• Gross profit margin
• Net profit margin
• Net profit ratio
• Return on owner’s equity
• Return on assets
d) Research the organization’s tax obligations, then answer the following:
I. What are the due dates for lodging and paying GST?
II. What are the due dates for lodging and paying income tax?
III. What are the due dates for lodging and paying relevant state/te
itory tax?
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