Identify and describe the accounting concepts used

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Advanced Financial Accounting Assignment -

Purpose of the assessment - Students are required to, follow the instructions by your lecturer to confirm any relevant information. You also need to follow any relevant announcement on Blackboard that confirm the date and time. The individual assignment will assess students on the following LOs;

1. On understanding of the various theoretical models of accounting.

2. On applying knowledge and understanding to specific financial reporting issues to AASB accounting standards.

3. On discussing the theoretical constructs of contemporary financial accounting.

4. On evaluating and explaining the need for the development of a conceptual framework for accounting, and discuss the influence of such a framework on accounting practice.

5. On Understanding of the Australian accounting regulatory framework and the conceptual framework.

6. On understanding of how to account for assets, non-current assets and liabilities.

7. Be able to calculate for revaluations and impairments of non-current assets, and then journalise, and

8. Account for leases for both lessees and lessors.

Assignments' Instructions and Requirements -

"Find Your Company" you will find the listed company you have been allocated for this course. Complete this assignment for the company you have been allocated. Please be careful to use the listed company you have been allocated. Your assignment will not be marked if you use a different company to the one you have been allocated; and you will be asked to resubmit your assignment using the right company.

Company - SYD Airport FP Ordinary/Units Stapled Securities and sector is Industrial.

Go to the website of your company in the list of companies in the file "Find Your Company". Then go to the Investor Relations section of the website. This section may be called, "Investors", "Shareholder Information" or similar name.

In this section, go to your firm's annual reports and save to your computer your firm's latest annual report. For example, these may be dated 30 June 2017 or 31 March 2018. Do not use your firm's interim financial statements or their concise financial statements. You are need to do the following tasks:

Please read the relevant footnotes of your firm's financial statements carefully and include information from these footnotes in your answer.

Within your firm's latest annual report,

Required:

1- From the annual report of your allocated company and in addition, to providing examples identify and describe the accounting concepts used.

2- With reference to the conceptual framework, and the debate over measurement in accounting. Using your allocated company discuss the issue of measurement and provide examples.

3- As fundament qualitative characteristics state your understanding of relevance and representational faithfulness in relation to the useful information of the financial statements and if one is more important than the other, in accounting for assets and liabilities. Provide examples from your allocated company. For additional guidance for marks allocations refer to the below marking rubric / guide. Students need to make sure that performing the assignment using the same company is not permitted.

Assignment Structure should be as the following:

Structure
Introduction
Descriptions of Accounting Concepts
Conceptual framework, and the Issue of Measurement
Fundamental Qualitative Characteristics - Understanding of Relevance and Representational Faithfulness
Conclusion
Language
References

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Word limit - 2500 words . 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. Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.

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Assessment Criteria: Assessment of the case study will be based on the criteria listed below and your submission should include the following: 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 can submit all assignments for plagiarism checking (self-check) on Blackboard before final submission in the unit. For further details, please refer to the Unit Outline and Student Handbook. It is essential that students use a standard referencing style in their assignments – Holmes Institute uses the Harvard Referencing style.

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