Managerial accounting

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HI5017 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIVE REPORT T2 2021

Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines Trimester T2 2021 Unit Code HI5017 Unit Title Managerial Accounting Assessment Type Individual Assignment Assessment Title Reflective Report Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)

The purpose of this assessment is to ensure each student is able to provide a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as it relates to fulfilling the learning outcomes of this unit. (ULO 1, 2 and 4).

Weight 10% of the total assessments Total Marks 10 Word limit 1,000 words. Please use “word count” and include the word count in the

assignment cover page. Due Date Week 11 Thursday, 30 September 2021 at 11.59 p.m.

Submission Guidelines

• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.

• The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers.

• It is the responsibility of the student who is submitting the work, to ensure that the work is, in fact, her/his own work. Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work without appropriate acknowledgement is an academic offence. Students should submit all assignments for plagiarism checking on Blackboard before final submission in the subject. For further details, please refer to the Unit Outline and Student Handbook.

Adapted Harvard Referencing

Holmes has now implemented a revised Harvard approach to referencing:

1. Reference sources in assignments are limited to sources which provide

full text access to the source’s content for lecturers and markers.

2. The Reference list should be located on a separate page at the end of

the essay and titled: References.

3. It should include the details of all the in-text citations, arranged

alphabetically A-Z by author surname. In addition, it MUST include a

hyperlink to the full text of the cited reference source.

For example:

Hawking, P., McCarthy, B. and Stein, A. (2004), Second Wave ERP

Education, Journal of Information Systems Education, Fall,

http://jise.org/Volume15/n3/JISEv15n3p327.pdf

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4. All assignments will require additional in-text reference details which

will consist of the surname of the author/authors or name of the

authoring body, year of publication, page number of contents,

paragraph where the content can be found.

For example,

“The company decided to implement an enterprise wide data

warehouse business intelligence strategies (Hawking et al, 2004,

p3(4)).”

Non - Adherence to Referencing Guidelines

Where students do not follow the above guidelines: 1. Students who submit assignments which do not comply with the

guidelines may be required to resubmit their assignments or incur

penalties for inadequate referencing.

2. Late penalties will apply per day after a student or group has been

notified of a resubmission requirement.

• Students whose citations are fake will be reported for academic misconduct.

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Individual Reflective Report Specifications

Assignment Task: In this reflective report, you will be discussing about your learning experience in this unit, the relevance of the unit material and assessments in the unit to your understanding of management accounting in general, and your understanding of how management accounting concepts and techniques assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. Specifically, you are to provide reflections or comments on each of the following: 1. Comment on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future? (4 marks) 2. Comment on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting, what was challenging and what did you learn from it? (3 marks)

3. Comment on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it? (3 marks)

Assignment Structure: The reflective report should include the following components:

a. Assignment Cover Page clearly stating your name and student number b. Table of contents c. A brief introduction or overview of what the assignment is about d. Body of the assignment with the written answers e. Conclusion f. List of References (if applicable) - follow the Holmes Adapted Harvard Referencing guidelines

on pg. 1-2.

Marking criteria:

Marking criteria Weighting

1. Comment on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future?

4%

2. Comment on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it?

3%

3. Comment on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it?

3%

TOTAL Weight 10%

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Academic Integrity

Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding Academic Integrity, as Academic Integrity is integral

to maintaining academic quality and the reputation of Holmes’ graduates. Accordingly, all assessment tasks

need to comply with academic integrity guidelines. Table 1 identifies the six categories of Academic Integrity

breaches. If you have any questions about Academic Integrity issues related to your assessment tasks, please

consult your lecturer or tutor for relevant referencing guidelines and support resources. Many of these

resources can also be found through the Study Sills link on Blackboard.

Academic Integrity breaches are a serious offence punishable by penalties that may range from deduction of

marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of

course enrolment.

Table 1: Six categories of Academic Integrity breaches

Plagiarism Reproducing the work of someone else without attribution. When

a student submits their own work on multiple occasions this is

known as self-plagiarism.

Collusion Working with one or more other individuals to complete an

assignment, in a way that is not authorised.

Copying Reproducing and submitting the work of another student, with or

without their knowledge. If a student fails to take reasonable

precautions to prevent their own original work from being copied,

this may also be considered an offence.

Impersonation Falsely presenting oneself, or engaging someone else to present as

oneself, in an in-person examination.

Contract cheating Contracting a third party to complete an assessment task,

generally in exchange for money or other manner of payment.

Data fabrication and

falsification

Manipulating or inventing data with the intent of supporting false

conclusions, including manipulating images.

Source: INQAAHE, 2020

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Marking Rubric Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Comment on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future? (4 marks)

(3.6 – 4 marks) Excellent comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future.

(2.9 – 3.5marks) Very good comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future.

(2.1 – 2.8 marks) Good comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future.

(1.6 - 2 marks) Reasonable comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future.

(0 – 1.5 mark) Unable to present proper comments on what knowledge you have gained about managerial accounting and how will it be useful to you in your future, or is confusing.

Comment on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it? (3 marks)

(2.1 – 3 marks) Excellent comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it.

(1.9 - 2 marks) Very good comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it.

(1.6 – 1.8 marks) Good comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it.

(1.1 – 1.5marks) Reasonable comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it.

(0 - 1 marks) Unable to present proper comments on what you learned from the individual assignment. What was interesting and what did you learn from it, or is confusing.

Comment on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it (3 marks)

(2.1 – 3 marks) Excellent comments on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it.

(1.9 - 2 marks) Very good comments on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it

(1.6 – 1.8 marks) Good comments on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it

(1.1 – 1.5marks) Reasonable comments on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it

(0 - 1 marks) Unable to present proper comments on what you learned about the various management accounting concepts and techniques that will assist managers in making decisions to real world business problems. What concepts and techniques you found interesting and what did you learn from it, or is confusing.

Total Marks (10) /10