ACCT3013 Financial Statement Analysis
Mid-semester Take-Home Assessment
Semester One, 2023
General information
Due date and time: Wednesday, 11am, 5th April (Sydney Time)
1. You are not permitted to use any artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, to
generate any part of your responses. AI tools cannot be relied upon to generate responses
that will adequately address the requirements of this assessment. All responses must be
in your own words.
2. This assessment is worth 15% of your final grade for the unit.
3. Answer all the questions. Please note that the questions are not of equal value and have
sub parts.
4. You are required to provide your narrative responses using the following font: Times
New Roman, Size 12, double spaced.
5. No Submissions will be accepted via email
6. Answers to some questions should not exceed specified word limits (a precise writing
won’t require to write up-to the max limit). Word limits are mentioned in appropriate
sections of the assessment document. The word count is based on the word count
information as presented in Turnitin and this will be checked. As a suggestion, you can
use the following procedure to assist you to track the word count, select the section you
want to check, then use Ctrl+Shift+G to open the Word Count dialog box.
7. Please ensure you submit well before the due time in case there are problems. Turnitin in
Canvas does not automatically email a digital receipt. Once you have successfully
submitted your assignment, a time and date stamp will appear next to your submission.
Should submission problems arise, you should contact the University’s ICT Service Desk
on 02 9351 2000 (option 2 for ICT) or email ict.support@sydney.edu.au
8. We don’t expect students to use much of the additional resources/researches apart from
the annual report for this assignment. Use of any resources including annual report must
be appropriately and properly referenced using the American Psychological Association
referencing style 7th (or APA 7th as it is more commonly known).
9. In step two, you will need to download the excel file and find your company that need to
be analysed for your assessment.
10. Once you have identified your company, then go to step 3, download the assessment,
Mid-semester take-home assessment, submit a new word file by addressing all the
questions from the assessment through Turnitin. Use the following file name format:
“ACCT3013_MS1_2023_SID”. You do not need to reiterate the question, just simply
answer as Q1. A).
11. Please make reasonable assumptions if necessary. For the next 48 hours (starting from
11am Monday to 11am Wednesday), any form of communication (including CANVAS
discussion board) regarding the assessment is highly discouraged.
12. As a student of the University of Sydney, you are responsible for taking part in your
education in an honest and authentic manner. It is therefore expected that you take extra
care to ensure that there are no breaches of academic honesty. All assignments will be
manually and electronically checked for plagiarism (copying). Any perceived breaches
of academic honesty will be referred to the Office of Educational Integrity for further
investigation and penalised if verified. You can read more information on what
plagiarism is and how to avoid plagiarism from the University link:
https://sydney.edu.au/students/academic-dishonesty.html
Grade Descriptors
Due to the specific nature of this assignment, students are advised generic submissions will not
score high marks as the assignment requirements will not be met. The following can at best be
considered as a general indication, assuming consistency in quality of component parts.
High Distinction The attempted solution substantially exceeds minimal requirements,
and is consistent and coherent. It excels in substantive content and demonstrates professional
communication skills. It reflects consideration of your own well developed perspectives and is
framed in your own words.
Distinction The attempted solution substantially exceeds minimal requirements across
most tasks and through effective communication demonstrates a strong understanding of the
accounting issues and relevant accounting requirements. Good development of your own
perspectives.
Credit The attempted solution exceeds minimal requirements across most tasks, but is
less well developed, less framing in your own words (e.g. dull reproduction of slabs of text
from others), some errors or omissions in application.
Pass A minimal standard is reached across various aspects of the task.
Fail The task is not completed. The solution does not reflect an appropriate
understanding of the question/assigned task. Poorly developed responses.