Financial Accounting and Reporting Individual Assignment
Learning Outcome: Develop information gathering (research) and communication strategies to enable the provision of professional advice to a client.
Objective: The objective of this assignment is to learn to effectively research a technical aspect of accounting and communicate professional advice to a client, via a business letter.
Background to the case study:
Assume that you are a graduate accountant working for McKenzie and Associates a public accounting firm situated at 668 George Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000. The manager of your firm, Ms. Maria McKenzie has asked you to draft a letter in response to an email received from a client - Mr. Con Pewter, the Managing Director of Pewter Ltd, raising a number of issues regarding his company - see the copy of the email on the next page.
The maximum length of the letter is 1,250 words (excluding any calculations).
Part A: Technical component - This mark covers the technical content of your advice and the explanation on each of the issues, the calculations and the sources used.
Part B: Communication Skills - Letter Writing - This mark covers the generic skills of business letter writing; layout, clear meaning, structure and organisation, appropriate tone and grammar, spelling and punctuation etc.
The assignment is designed to test the following skills:
1. Your knowledge and your ability to research the issues and then apply the information appropriately using judgement to correctly identify the relevant standards and legislation that relate to the issues raised by the client.
2. Your written communication skills - business letter writing.
Attachment:- Assignment File.rar