Understanding Inflated Financial Result of Amazon
Task Details:
Group task - Groups are to identify and analyse current theories and models in accounting, analysing how they apply to the given situation. Specific research supported recommendations need to be provided.
Research Requirements:
Students need to support their analysis with reference from the text and a minimum of ten (10) suitable, reliable, current and academically acceptable sources – check with your tutor if unsure of the validity of sources. Groups seeking Credit or above grades should support their analysis with increased number of reference sources comparable to the grade they are seeking.
Group Presentation:
Using the group report content, groups are to present their analysis and findings/ conclusions in a professional 5 (five)-minute video presentation. All group members must participate in the preparation of the video. Presentations should be a critical analysis covering the main theory elements of the course – not just presenting a factual story – reference to corporate reports and other material is encouraged. Information can be covered in any order in the presentation, but should contain elements of the course. It is strongly recommended that groups prepare their presentations well in advance of the presentation date, and make some effort to review their video presentation. This will improve the presentation overall, and give groups a chance to improve and time manage their presentations. Videos may be prepared using any available platform such as iMovie, MovieMaker, Prezi and others.
The other issues are to be with corporate social responsibility, sustainability, ethical, environmental. It should be clearly written in the report which accounting standards, AASB , conceptual framework, did it breach.
Note: The report need not be submitted to turnitin so focus more on video, content in video,standards, conceptual framework, the report can contain links. The marks for the video is 70 % and for the report is 30 %, so please focus on both.
1. Title page,
2. executive summary,
3. table of contents,
4. appropriate headings and sub-headings,
Code of ethics, Legal Issues, Conceptual framework, How these issues affected the share price, what did the CEO told about these issues, what was the reaction to the media? What clarification did the company ceo gave or what they said, what happened to the share market after that shocks or collapse...
5. Recommendations
6. /findings
7. /conclusions,
in-text referencing and reference list (Harvard – Anglia style),
minimum of ten (10) suitable, reliable, current and academically acceptable sources
attachments if relevant.
Single spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, Calibri 11pt or Arial 10pt.
Video Presentation: 5-minute video presentation in class supported by appropriate visual aids. Presentations will be timed – groups going over 5 minutes will be asked to stop - this will effect marks, as will presentations that are too short (under 4 minutes) or too long (over 6 minutes). All group members must participate.
