Assessment Brief 2024/2025****
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Assignment Information
| Course Code | ACCFIN5242 |
|---|---|
| Course Title | Accounting for Management |
| Weighting | 20% |
| Question release date | Friday 04 October 2024 |
| Submission date: | Friday 08 November 2024 by 12 noon |
| Grades and Feedback to be released on: | Friday 29 November 2024 |
| Word limit | 2000 (+/- 10%) Refer to word limit policy |
|---|---|
| Action to be taken if word limit is exceeded | Anything beyond the required limit will not be marked |
1. QUESTION/ DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
Management accounting is techno-procedural and provides multitudes of instruments for management purposes. However, it operates in a wider organizational and social context creating situational practices as well as intended and unintended consequences.
• Task: Elaborate this statement into a 2000-word academic essay. Use relevant readings, cite them appropriately, and provide the list of the references you have cited.
Intended Learning Outcomes aimed by this individual assignment:
· Explain the roles of accounting in management.
· Apply the knowledge of costing practices and their implications for management.
· Apply the knowledge of performance measurement practices and their implications for management.
Suggested structure
· Introduction – 250 words
· Instrumental view – 500 words
· Organizational and social view – 500 words
· Practices and consequences – 500 words
· Conclusions – 250 words
2. ASSESSMENT RUBRIC/ CRITERIA
A holistic rubric provides a list of assessment criteria together with broad description of the characteristics that would be expected for each level of performance.
| Criteria | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Satisfactory | Weak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answers the question/problem or topic set | Everything written is clearly relevant to the question; each fact, concept, argument, and piece of evidence fully contributes and makes a difference to the answer, or the examples used in class discussion | Most writing is largely relevant to the question; each fact, concept, argument, and piece of evidence largely contributes and makes a difference to the answer | Most writing written is generally relevant to the question; each fact, concept, argument, and piece of evidence generally contributes and makes a difference to the answer | Some writing is vaguely relevant to the question; each fact, concept, argument, and piece of evidence vaguely contributes and makes a difference to the answer | Everything written is not clearly relevant to the question; each fact, concept, argument, and piece of evidence not clearly contributes and does not make a difference to the answer |
| Makes a convincing argument supported by appropriate evidence | Builds an innovative case; goes beyond a list of facts; facts and evidence support the case being made; demonstrates clear代写ACCFIN5242 Accounting for Management evidence of interpretation and evaluation; argues for a position, rather than merely asserting an opinion; anticipates and responds to possible counterarguments; reaches reasonable concluding remarks where applicable and assesses the strength of them | Builds a case; Largely goes beyond a list of facts; facts and evidence support the case being made; demonstrates evidence of interpretation and evaluation; argues for a position, rather than merely asserting an opinion; anticipates and responds to possible counterarguments; reaches concluding remarks where applicable and assesses the strength of them | Builds a case; Generally, goes beyond a list of facts; facts and evidence support the case being made; generally, demonstrates evidence of interpretation and evaluation; generally, argues for a position, rather than merely asserting an opinion; anticipates and responds to possible counterarguments; reaches concluding remarks where applicable and assesses the strength of them | Builds a case; Vaguely, goes beyond a list of facts; facts and evidence vaguely support the case being made; demonstrates evidence of interpretation and evaluation; vaguely, argues for a position, rather than merely asserting an opinion; anticipates and responds to possible counterarguments; reaches concluding remarks where applicable and assesses the strength of them | Does not builds a case; goes beyond a list of facts; facts and evidence does not support the case being made; does not demonstrate evidence of interpretation and evaluation; does not argue for a position – merely asserting an opinion; does not anticipate and respond to possible counterarguments; does not reach concluding remarks where applicable and assesses the strength of them |
| Demonstrates and applies relevant subject specific knowledge/understanding | Answer demonstrates an excellent understanding and application of disciplinary concepts, ideas, procedures, and excellently illustrates application of concepts and ideas | Answer better demonstrates understanding and application of disciplinary concepts, ideas, procedures, better illustrates application of concepts and ideas | Answer acceptably demonstrates understanding and application of disciplinary concepts, ideas, procedures, acceptably illustrates application of concepts and ideas | Answer reasonably demonstrates understanding and application of disciplinary concepts, ideas, procedures, reasonably illustrates application of concepts and ideas | Answer does not demonstrate understanding and application of disciplinary concepts, ideas, procedures, does not illustrate application of concepts and ideas |
| Has an appropriate structure | Has an excellent logical sequence, ideas relate to each other and to topic, provides signposts for the reader (e.g. ‘there are three main reasons for this, ‘taking a different perspective…’, a possible counter-argument might be….’), conclusions drawn logically follow from the arguments and evidence presented | Has a very good logical sequence, ideas relate to each other and to topic, provides signposts for the reader (e.g., ‘there are three main reasons for this, ‘taking a different perspective…’, a possible counter-argument might be….’), conclusions drawn logically follow from the arguments and evidence presented | Has a good logical sequence, ideas relate to each other and to topic, provides signposts for the reader (e.g., ‘there are three main reasons for this, ‘taking a different perspective…’, a possible counter-argument might be….’), conclusions drawn somewhat logically follow from the arguments and evidence presented | Has a reasonable logical sequence, ideas relate to each other and to topic, provides signposts for the reader (e.g., ‘there are three main reasons for this, ‘taking a different perspective…’, a possible counter-argument might be….’), conclusions drawn vaguely follow from the arguments and evidence presented | Has not a logical sequence, ideas relate to each other and to topic, does not provide signposts for the reader (e.g., ‘there are three main reasons for this, ‘taking a different perspective…’, a possible counter-argument might be….’), conclusions does not logically follow from any argument or evidence. |
| Follows the appropriate academic and stylistic conventions (Harvard) with regard to formatting, citations and references | Sources used are correctly cited in the text and included in the reference list/ bibliography; document is formatted according to instructions; where appropriate diagrams, charts and graphs are properly labelled | Sources used are correctly cited in the text and included in the reference list/ bibliography; document is formatted according to instructions; where appropriate diagrams, charts and graphs are properly labelled | Sources used have some errors in the text and there are some errors in the reference list/ bibliography; document is formatted according to instructions; where appropriate diagrams, charts and graphs are properly labelled | Sources used have many errors in the text and there are many errors in the reference list/ bibliography; document is formatted according to instructions; where appropriate diagrams, charts and graphs are properly labelled | Sources used are not correctly cited in the text and included in the reference list/ bibliography; document is formatted according to instructions; where appropriate diagrams, charts and graphs are properly labelled |
3. FEEDBACK METHOD
Formative feedback will be provided during tutorials. Feedback on your assignment will normally be provided via Moodle. Generic (class-level) feedback and grade profiles will normally be posted on Moodle.
Students can use academic staff office hours for additional feedback on your work.
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