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Unit Advanced Financial Reporting
Unit Code AFNR315
Type of Assessment Assessment 3 – Group Business Report
Length/Duration Group Assignment – 2000 words
Course Learning
Outcomes addressed
Course Learning Outcomes 2,4,5,6 and 7
Submission Date Week 10 (online submission)
Assessment Brief
You are required to work on this project in syndicate groups of four or
five students. Each group member is expected to contribute information
for the final report. The topic on the assignment will be released on
Moodle.
Students should form their groups by Week 6.
Total Mark 20 marks
Weighting 20%
Students are advised that any submission past the due date without an approved
extension or without approved extenuating circumstances incurs a 5% penalty per
calendar day. For example, our assessment has total marks of 20. Therefore the late
penalty will be 5%*20=1 mark per calendar day.
For more information, please refer to (Documents > Student Policies and Forms > POLICY –
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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:
The Adani Group is trying to build one of the biggest coal mines in the world. The Carmichael coal
mine is a proposed thermal coal mine in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland,
Australia. Mining is planned to be conducted by both open-cut and underground methods. The mine
is proposed by Adani Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of India's Adani Group. The project is set to
generate power to 100 million people in India. For Australia, how to use less coal is the challenge.
Required:
As a financial accounting student you are being invited to submit a report on the proposed Adani coal
project. The project has struck resistance from conservationist and traditional owners of the land.
Some of the questions to consider in writing a report about the Adani coal project are as follows:-
• Identify the revenue streams that the State and Federal Government would receive if the Adani
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project is approved. Do you think there is a conflict of interest between income streams to the
government, and protecting the environment for future generations?
• Should the Australian government extinguish native title for the Adani coal mine?
• There are plans to dump the sediment from the black coal on the doorstep of the great ba
ier
eef. Would you allow the project to continue in light of the environment impact statement?
• The contribution to ca
on emissions, impact on Aboriginal people, and the impact of water
pollution on the Great Ba
ier Reef.
• India’s appetite for energy grows and its inability to fulfil demand for energy from domestic
sources, causing Indian companies to look a
oad to meet its requirements.
ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:
This is a group assignment and students are required to work with their respective groups. No
individual submission will be accepted.
You will not receive any marks for this assignment if your group members collectively report against
you for non-participation or non-cooperation. You have to nominate someone as your group leader to
coordinate the assignment submission.
The assignment must be submitted online in Moodle. All materials MUST be submitted electronically
in Microsoft Word format. Other formats may not be readable by markers. Please be aware that any
assessments submitted in other formats will be considered LATE and will lose marks until it is
presented in MS Word. No paper based or hardcopy submission will be accepted.
Our Academic Learning Support (ALS) team would be happy to help you with understanding the task
and all other assessment-related matters. For assistance and to book one-on-one meeting please
email one of our ALS coordinators (Sydney XXXXXXXXXX; Melbourne
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Academic Learning Support in Moodle.
http:
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GENERAL NOTES FOR ASSIGNMENTS
Assignments should usually incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion, and will be
fully referenced including a reference list.
The work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We
strongly recommend you to refer to the Academic Learning Skills materials available in the
Moodle. For details please click the link
http:
moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5 and download the file “Harvard
Referencing Workbook”. Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic
skills that you must develop and demonstrate.
We recommend a minimum of FIVE references, unless instructed differently by your lecturer. Unless
specifically instructed otherwise by your lecturer, any paper with less than FIVE references may be failed.
Work that includes sources that are not properly referenced according to the “Harvard Referencing
Workbook” will be penalised.
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Marks will be deducted for failure to adhere to the word count – as a general rule you may go over or
under by 10% than the stated length.
GENERAL NOTES FOR REFERENCING
High quality work must be fully referenced with in-text citations and a reference list at the end. We
ecommend you work with your Academic Learning Support (ALS) site
(http:
moodle.kent.edu.au/kentmoodle/course/view.php?id=5) available in Moodle to ensure that you
eference co
ectly.
References are assessed for their quality. You should draw on quality academic sources, such as books,
chapters from edited books, journals etc. Your textbook can be used as a reference, but not the lecturer
notes. We want to see evidence that you are capable of conducting your own research. Also, in order to
help markers determine students’ understanding of the work they cite, all in-text references (not just
direct quotes) must include the specific page numbe
s if shown in the original. Before preparing your
assignment or own contribution, please review this ‘YouTube’ video by clicking on the following link:
Plagiarism: How to avoid it
PLAGIARISM: HOW TO AVOID IT
You can search for peer-reviewed journal articles, which you can find in the online journal databases and
which can be accessed from the li
ary homepage. Wikipedia, online dictionaries and online
encyclopaedias are acceptable as a starting point to gain knowledge about a topic, but should not be
overused – these should constitute no more than 10% of your total list of references/sources. Additional
information and literature can be used where these are produced by legitimate sources, such as
government departments, research institutes such as the NHMRC, or international organisations such as
the World Health Organisation (WHO). Legitimate organisations and government departments produce
peer reviewed reports and articles and are therefore very useful and mostly very cu
ent. The content
of the following link explains why it is not acceptable to use non-peer reviewed websites: Why can't I
just Google? (thanks to La Trobe University for this video).
THE ASSIGNMENT MARKING GUIDE:
Total marks Marks awarded
Executive summary
Identify clearly the objectives of the report
Clearly and accurately summarize the main findings
in the report
2
Introduction
Provide clear background information;
The aim(s) of the report are clearly stated
The plan on how the report will address the issues
are clearly presented
2
Main body
Use at lease five highly relevant primary literature
to support the investigation of the identified issues.
10
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A succinct, synthesized review of how similar issues
have been addressed in the literature.
Excellent integration of sources to support
argument.
Excellent discussions on the issues required in the
assignment.
Conclusion and recommendations
Excellent conclusion of the report with all main
argument reiterated.
Provide clear and constructive recommendations
2
References
Accurate citations and references using Harvard
style (both in-text reference and reference list). All
sources cited. Appropriate paraphrasing and use of
direct quotes
4
Total Marks 20