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英国留学生作业指导需求
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
BUSINESS SCHOOL
ACC2211 MANAGERIAL FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
ACC2211 Coursework (Weight to overall mark 20%)
DEADLINE: FRIDAY 26th MARCH 2010 at 4 PM.
WORD LIMIT: 2 000 WORDS WITH +/- 10%
You are required to submit a HARD COPY ONLY, however, you will need to attach your turn-it-in receipt to your hard copy (see note below). ALSO KEEP THE RECEIPT IN SAFE PLACE. NO LATE
SUBMISSIONS ARE ACCEPTED.
Attention for Students relating to Plagiarism
(a) Turn-it-in is required. A report without the turn-it-in receipt will not be marked. Also if your similarity is over 40%, this coursework will not be marked and your coursework will be sent to the plagiarism committee.
(b) All work submitted must be written in your own words, where you have used quoted material, you MUST give full reference to it, you must cite all references used at the end of your assignment (refer to the information cited on page 4 of this document concerning Harvard Referencing System).
Case Study: Golden Agri Corporatio
Michael Brown has just finished his studies at Middlesex University, UK this year. Although the financial crisis is still ongoing, Michael has managed to secure his internship position with Golden Agri in Singapore. After Michael has worked there for six months, he is very interested in purchasing some of this company’s shares.
Your assignment task is to generate one financial report to provide the following information required by Michael:
Financial Report OutlineThe Essay is provided by UK Assignment http://www.ukassignment.org
I. Background to the Company (on average 500 words):
Please write a short introduction of Golden Agri’s history, mission, products, customers and the market competition.
II. Company Strengths and Weaknesses (on average 1300 words):
To adequately cover this part, you are required to give information to address the following:
•What is meant by the term Financial Statements? And how do organizations made use of financial statements to measure their performance? (You are advised to refer to different references to address this question). Many texts are available in the library. A useful link is given below:
http://library.mdx.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=B265370915T0I.516&menu=se
arch&aspect=basic_search&npp=15&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=bg&ri=&index=.T
W&term=financial+reporting&aspect=basic_search#focus
•Calculate and critically comment on the Financial Ratios (from 2006 January to
2008 December; 3 years) for Golden Agri. You can access the company’s annual
reports for these THREE years via the web link:
http://www.goldenagri.com.sg/index.php?page=annual-reports#p#分页标题#e#
III. Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations (on average 200 words):
Are you willing to recommend Michael to purchase Golden Agri’s shares?
Format of report
Detailed calculations should be provided into the report. The report should be structured as follows:
•a title page
•a contents page showing all numbered sections or subsections and their page numbers
•an appropriate Introduction
•sections which have a heading and a number
•section headings (and if appropriate sub-sections) should describe their contents
•sections should be in a logical order
•page numbersThe Essay is provided by UK Assignment http://www.ukassignment.org
•Appendices (numbered or lettered) containing the detailed calculations
•an appropriate Recommendation
Each member of the group should do a fair share of the work. The report is a joint responsibility, and each member is responsible for numerical accuracy, presentation, and standard of writing: marks awarded for the report will be the same for all members. If there are problems within the group which you cannot resolve, please discuss with your lecturer.
If the problems are not resolved and it is felt there has been an unequal contribution, then, exceptionally, you should inform your lecturer of the proportion of the work which has been contributed by each member.
Academic integrity
You should use your own words, not quote phrases from textbooks. Do not quote from lecture handouts. It is expected that you will use textbooks to obtain an understanding of Budgeting and customer satisfaction. If you use textbooks as the source of ideas for your report, you must provide a reference. Not to do so would be plagiarism – a breach of regulations with serious penalties. Please provide the page number in your in-text reference if you have referred to a textbook.
Turn-it-in
When you have completed your report, and prior to handing it to the Student Centre, it MUST be submitted to Turn-it-in via Oasis Plus. Further guidance will be given in classes.
This website will check your writing against a database of published sources, and will report if a match is found, and highlight the words in your report which match other work.
If this passage has been attributed i.e. it was made clear that it is not your original work and the source was given, then a match is not plagiarism. However, a high proportion of original work is expected, and you will not gain high marks unless you do use mainly your own words.
Submission of report
Reports should be submitted by the due date. Please note that no extension to this date is permitted by Business School regulations, so make sure you plan your time so there is no last minute rush, and allow plenty of time for possible problems such as printers not working. Assignments submitted after this date will not be marked. However, if you experienced a serious and unforeseeable problem which prevented you handing in your work on time, you should consult the Business School Student Handbook section on Extenuating Circumstances and decide whether you should submit an application.#p#分页标题#e#
vThe Essay is provided by UK Assignment http://www.ukassignment.org
Assessment criteria
Maximum mark
Relevance of materials used to the task set 10
Application of appropriate techniques 10
Logical sequence and development 10
Evidence of background reading 10
Appropriate depth of analysis 10
Evaluation of issues/results 10
Use of supporting data/evidence 15
Use of referencing system and bibliography 15
Overall presentation 10
Total mark 100
HARVARD REFERENCING SYSTEM
All assignments you submit should be properly referenced. You will lose marks if you do not reference your work properly and you may even be accused of plagiarism.
While there are a number of different conventions regarding referencing, it has been decided that we should adopt the 'Harvard' system (otherwise known as the 'author-date' system. The following paragraphs and accompanying tables are intended to give you the essential information you need to employ the convention.
Remember that:
•References are required in the body of the text, not just at the end.
•Referencing should be consistent and complete.
Referencing in the body of the text:
Whether the written work is an essay, report or dissertation you will be expected to include references to published work as you go along. As Cottrell (1999:123) says:
'You must give the reference whenever you draw on a source of information:
•As your inspiration (in general)The Essay is provided by UK Assignment http://www.ukassignment.org
•As the source of a particular theory article or viewpoint
•For specific information such as statistics, examples or case studies#p#分页标题#e#
•For direct quotations (reproducing the writer's exact words)
•For texts which you paraphrase rather than quote.'
The general form of each reference in the body of the text is:
First
Author's Name
Then
Date of publication
Then
Page number(s)
(These are only given where specific pages are being referred to)
You are referred to Cottrell (1999: 123-5) for detailed advice on how to incorporate references and for different ways of introducing them.
The following table is designed to help you with most situations you will encounter. It is important to employ these rules consistently, even if this may seem pedantic.
Table 1: Using the Harvard System to Reference in the Text
To refer to: For example
A work by a single author (Cottrell, 1999:125)
where 1999 is the date and 125 the page number.
A work by two authors (Cohen and Marshall, 1997)
A work by more than two authors (Gabriel et al., 2000)
More than one publication by the same author (Seegram, 1995, 1998)
in ascending date order
More than one publication by different authors (Ahmed, 1995, Smith, 1997)
in alphabetical order
More than one publication by different
authors with the same surname (James, A., 1990, James P., 1999)
An author referred to by another author
(secondary reference) (Mwansa cited by Samuels, 1994:678)
A publication where no author is given but
an organisation's name is (Hanson Trust plc, 1998)
Newspaper or journal article with no
author given (The Times, 1999)
An internet site (BBC Online, 1999)#p#分页标题#e#
References at the end of the assignment:
You should always provide a comprehensive list of references at the end of your assignments. This should list all the items referred to in the body of the text and give full publishing details so that anyone can follow up any particular reference and be certain that it is the correct one. References should be organised in alphabetical order. You should not include works which may have been referred to in the course of your preparation for the assignment but which have not been referred to in the body of the text. If you feel it is important to alert the reader to such items a separate list headed 'bibliography' should be provided but usually this is unnecessary.
The following list illustrates most of the kinds of references you are likely to need, Saunders et al (2000:454-456) has a more comprehensive list.
References to books:The Essay is provided by UK Assignment http://www.ukassignment.org
Lynch, R (1997) Corporate Strategy London, Pitman
Note that it is essential that it takes the above form, giving: name(s) and initials, date, place of publication (London in the above example) and publisher (e.g. Pitman). The title should be distinguished from other text - usually italics are used. Edition numbers should be given for second and subsequent edition but not for first editions.
References to chapters in edited books where the chapters are by different authors:
Flam, H (1993) 'Fear, Loyalty and Greedy Organizations' in Fineman, S (1993) Emotion in Organizations, London, Sage, pp58-75
Note the title of the chapter is in inverted commas, the title of the book in which it appears in italics.
Journal Articles:
Rafaeli, A. (1989) 'When cashiers meet customers', Academy of Management Journal, 32:245-73
Note that the title of the article appears in inverted commas and the title of the journal in italics (as in book titles). The numbers at the end are the issue number of the journal in which it appears, followed by the page numbers. Sometimes journals give volume number and issue number (or Month or season) within the volume, in which case give the reference accordingly - e.g. 12,3:323-344 for volume 12 number 3 pages 323-344.
Newspaper articles (with no author given)
Guardian (2000) 'Fraud in the office' The Guardian 6th April, page 5.
Internet siteThe Essay is provided by UK Assignment http://www.ukassignment.org
Prospects Web (2000) 'Career planning' (online) (cited 7th July 2000). Available from
URL:http://www.propects.csu.ac.uk/student/cidd/
Since, as in all referencing the aim is to allow the reader to access the materials you are referring to, it is important to give the correct URL so they can find what you are referring to. (One disadvantage of web references is that there is no guarantee of permanence - unlike a book or article - this is one reason for giving the date you used the site).#p#分页标题#e#
References/Further Reading:
Cottrell, S. (1999) The Study Skills Handbook (UEL edition) Basingstoke, Macmillan.
Saunder, M., Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. (2000) Research Methods for Business Students (second edition) Harlow, Pearson Education Ltd.
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