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ACC202 Management Accounting

Student assessment:
There are two parts to the written assignment, please read all of the following:
Attached to this Assignment Requirement Specification is an Academic Article (which has been
abbreviated) for you to read and come to an understanding of its Hypotheses and findings. You
are then to find a Company or Industry to study in this ‘context’. This will require you to
investigate a Business or an Industry that has been overhauling its management of the Supply
Chain to add both Customer and Shareholder Value. You can research the examples given in
Chapter 15 of the Text (6e p.685 Regarding Roberts Wool Link and The Merino Company. or
6e pp.686-687 Sigma and Blue Circle: A Supply Chain Partnership as examples of how you
could START your report and the type of companies you could examine.)
There are two parts to the submission:
1. Individual Essay Task (1000-1500 Words) is to focus on the Academic Article and explain
the hypotheses and findings of the authors. You may wish to relate how you have found
this to apply to the Company you studied in the Group Report however this essay is
specifically to show each students individual understanding of the academic article and its
findings. Additional Academic Articles may be referenced to show your expanded
knowledge on this topic.
2. Students are to work in a GROUP and produce a report (minimum 2000 words) on how the
company you have chosen has worked on its supply chain (relationships between itself and
its suppliers and customers) to add value to the firm and to maximise that value due to the
relationships it has created.
The Report will require that you use Microsoft Word to format and complete the task.
The Total Assignment will be marked out of 100 Marks as follows: 30 Marks of the total will be
awarded based on the INDIVIDUAL Essay. The Group Report will be marked out of 70 Marks.
4. A hard copy (Paper copy) of the essay and research report is to be submitted using Turnitin on
Moodle on or before 12 Midnight Monday 20 May 2013 (Moodle due time will be set to
11.59pm.) This date is in Week 9. (Please consult the Library for instructions if necessary
WELL BEFORE the due date and time.) A printed copy of the assignment should be handed in
during your tutorial in Week 9 however the time of electronic submissions to Moodle will be the
time officially recorded as your lodgement time. Naturally you may lodge it earlier if desired.
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The students MUST accompany their printed copy of the assignment submission with a
completed and signed KOI Assignment Coversheet. One of these coversheets must be
completed for EACH student in your group for the individual Essay component and ONE
“Group Submission Sheet” attached to the single copy of the Group Assignment. Please note
that marks will be awarded to all members of the group based on their input. The lecturer
should be consulted if a group member is not contributing to the task WELL IN ADVANCE of
the due date so action may be taken.
NOTE: It is important to note that each student should lodge your INDIVIDUAL ESSAY
where indicated in Moodle (this will be setup before the due date) however ONE person
in the GROUP (someone very reliable) should be nominated to make the GROUP
lodgement. Do NOT lodge multiple copies of the GROUP assignment from each group
member. More information will be provided in Week 8 on how this can be done.
5. Student assessment:
Assignment – Complete the Report and Essay with references to the supplied Article.
This assignment carries a course weighting of 20% of TOTAL COURSE MARK.
6. Research hints:
Remember, you are looking for additional academic articles and information to support your Report
relating to “Supply Chain Reform” in an AUSTRALIAN Company or Industry. Also you should try to get
current articles, so you should try to find articles written between 2005 and 2013. Earlier articles
may be OK but you need to think as to whether they are still relevant given today’s circumstances.
Finding articles:
1. Type the term into the Library database
2. Add a second search term such as marketing or consumer if you don’t get any results
first
3. Still no results that you can use? Try to use a different term that means the same
thing.
Reading/reviewing/analysing articles
Many articles you will find will be several pages long – this is quite normal for
academic research papers as they are required to explain in detail the research
methodology and results. These details are necessary to support and validate the
findings.
Do not let this concern you, as, for the purposes of your research for this, and most
other assessment tasks, you do not need to read the detail about the research
methodology and results. What you need to find out is the purpose of the research:
what question they are trying to answer; any context considerations; the findings –
i.e. the answer to the question; and any comments about future directions or the
application of the findings
To gain this information, points 1 and 2 will be found in the abstract and the
introductory section(s) – usually within the first 2 pages. Points 3 and 4 will be found
at the end of the paper under the headings “Findings” and/or “Conclusions” and/or
“Recommendations” or similar. These are usually the last page or two pages.
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A FULL copy of your ‘reference’ article can be found on the subject website along
with all other information under the heading ‘Assignment’ however there is also an
‘abbreviated version’ which omits the research methodology and statistical data.
Although the article is quite long, only the first two pages (336 & 337) and page 350
have been needed for the review – i.e. students usually only need to read the
introduction and conclusion sections of the articles.
7. Late submission:
Please note that late submission (any time after the due date and time) will incur a 25% penalty
and then an additional 5% per day each day or part thereof that the Assignment is late. No
Assignment will be collected after one week past the due date. Note that Doctor’s Certificates
do not exempt a student for lodging on time. Please lodge the Assignment showing your efforts
to the due date and consideration may be given based upon the level of Assignment
completion to the date of your illness or other misfortune.
8. Additional information:
You may, directly source items to include in your report such as graphic material and charts
from reputable websites such as those shown above providing your show and acknowledge all
sources of this material however the analysis should be your own work.
9. Referencing:
Referencing IS Required. Ensure that you fully reference ALL material that is directly copied
and enclose direct quotations appropriately with full references. (Please see the Library for
assistance if you are unfamiliar with the correct procedure for Academic Referencing.

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