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DIPLOMA OF BUSINESS

ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

BACC012

SEMESTER 1, 2023

Prerequisites: BACC011

Deadline: End of Week 8, Sunday @ 23.59 pm

ASSESSMENT TASK: ACCOUNTING FOR YOUR BUSINESS (AFYB)

(WEIGHT 25%)

TASK DESCRIPTION

Students with their peer working in a pair work will create their own business and account for their business operations. Business ideas and accounting knowledge for a partnership business is the fundamental part of the assessment. In addition, students are required to use the set of technical skills including the use of accounting application MYOB to record for their business transactions and Excel spreadsheet to prepare for NCA’ s Depreciation Schedule. The successful completion of this task will demonstrate that students have a strong understanding of business concepts and accounting principles applied in real business context, as well as the ability to use the computer accounting system.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SLO   1:  Demonstrate the process of recording economic events in accounting information system

SLO 3: Identify and address the practical issues in accounting for assets.

ASSSSMENT BRIEF

PART A – Introducing the business and the partners

You are required to write a great story to introduce about your business and your business partner.

ABOUT BUSINESS

• What is the name of the business & where is it located?

• Describe the business in details. E.g.: What is the business engaged in? Are you selling a product or providing a service? What product/s or what services?

• Who are its expected customers or clients? (Target market).

• What strategies would you do to attract customers to your business?

• What strengths do you have over your competition? Why would potential clients or customers choose your business instead of one of your competitors?

• What are major plans for business development in future?

ABOUT PARTNERS

• Introduce the partner: Who are they? What were they doing before forming the partnership?

• Why/How did you come up with this business idea?

• What are partners’ capital contributions (Cash/Car/Equipment/etc...)? (using a table)

• Recording Each partner’s capital contribution (a table for journal entries)

• What else can they contribute into the business apart from their capital? How will they use their knowledge/background/experience etc. to help the business?

• Partnership agreement. How are profits and losses to be shared etc.?

(Partnership agreement template may be downloaded from the Internet. Just change names etc. and delete unwanted sections. Using Referencing & Keep it short with 1 page only.)

Commencement of Business

•    Write a narrative: What date did business commence? (It will be at least a month after the partnership agreement is signed). Anything interesting at start?

•    Prepare  a trial  balance showing all accounts & their beginning balance on the day of business commencement (using the format given below & make up different amount & more accounts to be used in your business).

LINH DO ACCOUNTING BUSINESS

TRIAL BALANCE

AS AT 1st February 2023

1 PART C -USE MYOB TO RECORD TRANSACTIONS FROM PART B

Learning resources on how to use MYOB are provided under the bottom of Module page in Canvas.

After the completion of recording, you are required to generate those reports from MYOB:

•    General Journal Transaction Journal

•    Sales and Receivable Transaction Journal

•    Purchase and Payable Transaction Journal

•    Cash Disbursement Transaction Journals

•    Cash Receipts Transaction Journals

•    Standard Balance Sheet

•    Profit and Loss Statement (Accrual)

1 PART D - ANALYSE THE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Financial Statement Analysis and Ratio Analysis are commonly used to produce information on the business performance and therefore it helps to identify the problems early so that the prompt decisions can be made to correct the problems and improve the business performance.

Your pair is required to use the reports obtained from MYOB to demonstrate some analysis to draw information on your business performance during the period of business operation.

Your calculations and writing should be well developed in a structure of analysing business performance based on 4 main categories:

Profitability

Liquidity

Efficiency

Solvency

Finally,  you  might  need  to  provide some suggestions (future plans) to  improve  the  business performance in the future if you believe that your business is currently facing some problems given your analysis.

1 PART E -DEPRECIATION SCHEDULE FOR NON-CURRENT ASSET

You are required to select ONE (1) depreciating Non-Current Asset from your Balance Sheet to complete the following tasks:

o Clearly explain the depreciation method used to determine the its depreciation expense for this business operation period.

o Using Excel to construct Depreciation Schedule for this NCA over 3-5-year period under both methods: Straight-line & Reducing balance (at double S-L rate)

o Draw graphs on NCA’s depreciation & Book Value to make a comparison between two methods.

o Explain the key findings for differences between Straight-line & Reducing balance in accounting for the NCA’s depreciation and Book Value

DEADLINE

The deadline to submit this AFYB assignment is by the end of Week 8 Sunday @ 23.59 pm

Anything handed in after the above deadline will incur late penalties.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Only ONE (1) single file (Word or PDF) must be submitted to Canvas before the deadline, which should include all of the followings:

•  Cover page

•  Table of Content

•  All writing for part A

•  All writing & tables required in part B

•  All writing & calculations for part D

•  All writing & calculation & Excel tables & Graphs for Part E

• All Reports generated from MYOB (Part C)

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

•     Demonstration of a quality work submission (10%)

•     Demonstration of the ability to :

o Setup a partnership business in practice and understand how accounting principles are applied in business (20%)

o Analyze the business performance for the period of operation (20%)

•    Demonstration of the ability to use MYOB & accounting principles to record for business transactions (sales/purchases/ cash collections & payments/ general journals…) (30%)

•    Demonstration of the technical skills of using Excel to construct Depreciation schedule for NCA and knowledge required to account for depreciation expense using different methods (20%)