HA3011-Advanced Financial Accounting

Assignments’ Instructions and Requirements

In the excel file “Find Your Company” you will find the listed company you have been allocated for this course. This file will be made available on Friday of Week 4. 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.

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 2018 or 31 March 2019. 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, define, describe and discuss the criteria / factors of a reporting entity and identify if your allocated company is a reporting entity or not?

2- 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 

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.