SITXFIN002: Assessment 3 – Project (1)
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SIT40516 Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery
Unit: SITXFIN002 – Interpret Financial Information
Document Version: 2 Updated: 3Mar21 Source: S.L.S.8.8
Student Guide for Assessment
Instructions
Instructions to include, but not limited to:
1. Student will be assessed in a workplace or simulated workplace environment.
2. Ensure the student is aware of the assessment requirements at the commencement of the unit
3. The students are required to work alone to answer all the questions.
4. The questions are aimed at testing the student’s knowledge and skills of interpret financial information.
5. This practical assessment comprising of ve
al questions and practical observations that need to be answered by the student ve
ally, in person and within the workplace or simulated workplace environment.
6. The student is required to complete the practical assessment for this unit of competency. To complete this task, the student will need to answer all questions in Part A of this practical assessment in their own words in person, ve
ally.
7. The student answers should be recorded in the student assessment question booklet.
8. After the student has completed the practical assessment, the Traine
Assessor will make co
ections to the ve
al responses.
9. The student will receive up to two (2) attempts at this assessment task. Should the 1st attempt be Not Yet Satisfactory (NYS), the Traine
Assessor will provide feedback and will a
ange a date for the student 2nd attempt. If the student 2nd attempt is Not Yet Satisfactory (NYS), or the student fail to attend of date scheduled for the 2nd attempt, the student will receive an overall unsatisfactory result for this assessment task.
10. In special circumstances this practical assessment may be delivered as a written assessment in which the assessor shall mark the assessment and identify the assessment was presented in written form.
Task/s to be assessed
The tasks you will be observed undertaking are:
Your assessor will do the following.
· Observe you in an operational tourism, travel, hospitality or events environment interpreting financial information using a range of skills/tasks.
· Use the checklist to observe you using a range of skills/tasks.
· Observe you over a period of time while you learn and use various skills/tasks.
· Ensure that you can consistently perform all tasks multiple times satisfactorily.
· Decide when you are competent at all tasks.
You are required to do the following.
· You must answer all ve
al questions.
· You can ask your assessor for further clarification of any question, if necessary.
· Provide all necessary information when answering questions.
Oral Questioning
During the assessment your assessor will ask you oral questions that will address the knowledge aspects of the unit of competency. You will respond orally, and your assessor may record your response or use your response to determine sufficient under pinning knowledge.
Topics will include:
· Identify and explain financial terminology, reporting periods, accounting software and reporting forms
· Identify and discuss operational or departmental financial activities
· Explain types of financial reports and their purpose
· Discuss elements of financial record-keeping
- Discuss details of double-entry, accrual versus cash, profit and loss and reconciliations
Time allowed
On average, the Assessment should take 8-10 hours to complete
Location
Assessment will be completed in a simulated workplace environment under the supervision of a traine
assessor.
Decision making rules
To achieve a satisfactory outcome, you must be able to: -
· specific industry sector and organisation:
· financial terminology specific to financial report
· reporting periods and different financial years observed by different businesses
· key features and functions of accounting software programs used to manage financial operations
· use of financial information and reports in monitoring overall business performance
· operational or departmental financial activities relevant to the sector:
· average customer spend
· daily, weekly and monthly transactions
· departmental expenditure on:
· labou
· stock purchased
· wastage
· departmental income:
· covers and gross income
· commission earnings
· occupancy and gross income
· sales
· outstanding accounts:
· payable
· receivable
· quotations realised to sales
· sales performance
· stock levels
· variance from budget
· types of financial reports and their purpose:
· budgets
· cash flow
· covers
· expenditure
· labour and wages
· occupancy rates
· purchases
· receivables
· sales
· stock
· transactions
· transactions exempted
· units sold
· variance
· wastage
· key elements of financial record-keeping and key terminology:
· ledgers, subsidiary ledgers and journals
· transactions, receipts and disbursements
· invoices, accounts payable, debtors and creditors
· cash flow
· key elements of accounting and how it provides information for business management:
· charts of accounts and account categories
· basic rules for double-entry accounting and the concept of debits and credits
· accrual versus cash accounting
· profit and loss statements and balance sheets as key financial statements used to measure business performance:
· purpose
· how these reports are generated
· format
· features
· key information
· reconciliations:
· purpose
· different types of reconciliation, and the impact of unpresented cheques
· bank charges
· direct debits and credits
· concept of costing, and fixed and variable costs
· accounting for and reporting goods and services tax (GST).
Performance Observation Criteria for Assessment Task
The assessment methods must be by direct observation of tasks on required skills and knowledge to ensure co
ect interpretation and application. Your Assessor will observe you on the following observations:
· co
ectly complete each of the following financial information documents or reports used to monitor overall business performance:
· account summaries and balances
· balance sheets
· bank deposit documentation
· bank statements
· banking summaries
· business activity statements
· credit card transaction statements
· invoices
· journal entries
· merchant statements
· merchant summaries
· profit and loss statements
· trial balance
· provide financial information using co
ect financial terminology on six different operational or departmental financial activities listed in the knowledge evidence.
Assessment conditions
Assessors must satisfy NVR/AQTF assessor requirements.
Competency is to be assessed in the workplace or a simulated environment that accurately reflects performance in a real workplace setting.
Assessment must include direct observation of tasks.
Where assessment of competency includes third-party evidence, individuals must provide evidence that links them to the leadership or management of organisational change that the student has performed.
Assessors must verify performance evidence through questioning on skills and knowledge to ensure co
ect interpretation and application.
Resources required
The following equipment will be made available to students:
· Simulated or workplace documentation and resources
· Office equipment, materials and software packages (such as laptops, WiFi, Microsoft Suite)
· Case studies to examine or real workplace situations to analyze
· an industry workplace
· a simulated industry environment.
Assessment must ensure access to:
· an industry workplace
· a simulated industry environment, such as a training kitchen servicing customers.
Assessment must ensure access to:
· computers, printers and accounting software packages
· financial data and reports.
- Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.
Results/Re- assessment
· Your Assessor will grade as either S – Satisfactory or NYS – Not Yet Satisfactory for the assessment. In all cases your Assessor will provide you with feedback.
· Only when all assessment tasks have been graded as S – Satisfactory you will be deemed C – Competent in the final result of the unit of competency; if you do not satisfactorily complete all the assessment tasks you will be deemed NYC – Not Yet Competent.
· If the evidence is graded as NYS – Not Yet Satisfactory you will be required to re- submit the evidence. In this case, you will be provided with clear and constructive feedback based on the assessment decision so that they can improve your skills / knowledge prior to reassessment.
· Where a ‘NYS – Not Yet Satisfactory’ judgement is made, you will be given guidance on steps to take to improve your performance and provided the opportunity to resubmit evidence to demonstrate competence. The assessor will determine and discuss the reasons for NYS – Not Yet Satisfactory on any of the criteria and will assess you through a different method of assessment e.g. ve
al/oral questioning, problem solving exercises.
· You will be notified within 10 working days of undertaking an assessment of their result in achieving competency
· If a student does not complete the assessment, they should notify their trainer as to why they did not complete the assessment and if due to illness, a medical certificate must be produced. “This process is detailed more in
the “Training and Assessment Policy and Procedure”
· In the above scenario, student will be given an opportunity for reassessment within 5 working days with no reassessment fee charged.
· Students who are deemed to be Not Yet Competent (NYC) will be provided with information identifying the areas in which they failed to achieve competency. Students will then have the opportunity to repeat the assessment task within 5 working days of notification with no reassessment fee charged.
· If a student is deemed NYC in the reassessment or if the student did not approach the RTO within five working days with a valid reason for not availing themselves of the