Assignment Specifications

 
Purpose:
The Group Assignment aims to provide students with an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment in solving two case problems by citing the relevant legal rules and cases and applying these to the facts of the case.
 
Students are to form groups, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 students per group. The assignment consists of a 2,000-word written report.
 
Instructions: Please read and re-read carefully to avoid mistakes.
 

Group Report

1. This group assignment consists of 2 parts. Part A is a question on Contract Law, and Part B is a question involving Business Structures. Both questions must be answered.

2. The total word limit for the group report is 2,000 words (+/- 10% allowed) with each part having a maximum word count of 1,000 words. Word count limits are strictly enforced. A deduction of two (2) marks will be imposed for every 50 words over the word count for either part of the report. Anything over the word count will not be read by your lecturer.

3. The total word count for the report as well as each part must be clearly written on the cover sheet of the assignment. A paper will not be marked if the word counts are not written on the cover sheet.

4. The group report is worth 30% of total marks in this unit.

             
Important Reminders:

• You must form your groups by self-enrolment in Blackboard. Please refer to the document “Group Assessment Self Enrolment Tutorial”, that has been posted in Blackboard (under announcements and also in “Assessments” folder). This document will assist you with the process of self-enrolling in a group to undertake an assessment task in Blackboard Ultra.

• All group report submissions must be de done online and run through SafeAssign. No hard copies are to be submitted. Only one group member needs to submit for the whole group.

• Please fill in the “Rubric Group Report” sheet (available in Blackboard under “Assignments and Due dates) and attach as a cover sheet to your group report and upload on Blackboard.

• Each team member also must also submit to their lecturer/tutor a “Peer Evaluation of Individual Participation in Group Assignment” sheet (available in Blackboard under “Assignments and Due dates) with their assignment.

• Group report must be submitted via SafeAfssign on Blackboard and show a similarity percentage figure. Any group report that does not show a SafeAssign similarity percentage will not be marked and be required to re-submit.

• Late submissions will be subject to Holmes Institute policy on student assessment submission and late penalties (please refer to subject outline and Student handbook).

• All reports are expected to observe proper referencing in accordance with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC). A copy of the AGLC has been posted in the Week 2 tutorial folder.

You may also download a copy for free via this link:  https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2877782/AGLC3.pdf
 

• In general, for written reports, a SafeAssign similarity percentage of 25% or below is acceptable. Regardless of the similarity figure, all group reports must use in-text citation and observe proper referencing rules.

• All assignments are expected to strictly follow Holmes Institute’s Academic Conduct and Integrity Policy and Procedures. A copy of the Policy is available on the Holmes Institute home page. (About Holmes > Policies) This policy is also explained in your Student Handbook.

• Plagiarism and contract cheating in any form will not be tolerated and will have severe consequences for the groups found committing the same, including receiving zero (0) for the entire assignment and possible failure in the unit.

• Any group assignment that is found to contain fake or bogus references or references that are clearly irrelevant to the subject matter of the assignment will receive an automatic zero (0) mark.

• IMPORTANT: Identification of individual work. To ensure that all students participate equitably in the group assignment and that students are responsible for the academic integrity of all components of the assignment, each group must complete the following table which identifies which student/students are responsible for the various sections of the assignment:

 
This table needs to be completed and submitted with the assignment as it is a compulsory component required before any grading is undertaken.
 

Assignment Questions

Part A: Contracts Law Question

• Read the Contracts Law question below.

• In 1,000 words (+/- 10% is allowed), answer your chosen question using the IRAC method.

• Your answer must be supported by relevant law and cases decided by Australian courts (preferably the High Court) and/or scholarly articles. A minimum of 3 genuine and relevant references are required for this part of the report.

• Your references must be listed in a Reference list at the end of the Part A question.

 
 
 
Joey Joystick is a computer programmer. While he was in his final year of university studies, he worked as an intern with a local electronic games producer, Great Games Pty Ltd. Joey impressed his supervisors with his insightful comments and other input on design work. They were so impressed with his work on one design, Crypt Force, that they gave him part credit for it and paid him a general bonus for it. Crypt Force ultimately won an industry award and proved to be a big seller for the company.
 
After Joey’s university graduation ceremony, he was ushered aside by a Great Games executive who showed him a document and said:
 
“We’re very impressed by your work, Joey. We’d like you to join us permanently— we’re sure you’ll be happy with the deal we can offer you.”
 
The document was a contract of employment which contained the following clauses:
 

1. The duration of the contract is three (3) years.

9. The employee (Joey) agrees that he will not for the duration of the employment contract or for a period of one year after the conclusion of the employment undertake design activities in Australia for the purposes of the production of electronic games or any other form of entertainment.

 
The starting salary under the contract was that normally paid to a senior designer, which was a position a new designer would not usually attain until he or she had worked with Great Games for three years. Joey happily signed the agreement.
 
After two years with Great Games, Joey was approached by a film production company, Computer Animated Films Inc (CAN). Joey agreed with CAN that, for a salary five times what he was getting paid by Great Games, he would immediately start work as part of a team producing Cosmic Armada, a feature-length computer animated film. As part of the deal, Joey would also work on a spin-off Cosmic Armada electronic game.
 
Advise Great Games whether it can prevent Joey from working for CAN.
 
In answering this question, you are expected to draw on legal rules, principles and cases discussed in the lectures from Weeks 1 to 4 and the corresponding chapters from the prescribed textbook.
 
             

Part B: Business Structures question

• Read the questions below on Business Structures.

• In 1,000 words (+/- 10% is allowed), answer the chosen given question.

• A minimum of 3 genuine and relevant references are required for this part of the report. Examples of relevant references for this question include the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); the Australian and Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) website (asic.gov.au), the website of the Australian Business Register’s (ABR) website (www.abr.gov.au).

• Your references must be listed in a Reference list at the end of the Part B question.

 
 
You have graduated from Holmes Institute with a Master’s Degree in Professional Accounting, and you’re employed as an accountant/financial advisor, for an accounting firm called Big Business Accountants. 
 
Harry is a client, and he has made an appointment to see you. Harry is keen in starting a business. This business he is proposing to start is a bakery. Harry has qualifications in bakery which includes making cakes, bread, pastries. 
 
Harry, has saved up his money and he has about $50,000.00 in cash. He hasn’t bought any equipment but he has found a shop which he is considering leasing where his bakery business will be operating from.
 
Harry has always been an employee and now he would like to know what type of business structure he should have for his bakery. 
 
Your task is to write a report to Harry about the types of business structures that you consider would be suitable for Harry to consider.
             
Marking Rubric
Group Report

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Assignment: Tutorial Questions 1
 
Due: 11:30pm 15^th May 2020
 
Weighting:  25%
 

Total Marks: 50 marks

 
Purpose: This assignment is designed to assess your level of knowledge of the key topics covered in this unit
 
Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed:
 

1. Students are able to apply appropriate business research methodologies to support decision-making process.
2. Students are able to identify and apply valid statistical techniques in a given scenario to solve business problems.
3. Students are able to justify and interpret the results of a statistical analysis in the context of critical reasoning for a business problem solving.
4. Students are able to apply statistical knowledge to summarize data graphically and statistically, either manually or via a computer package.
5. Students are able to justify and interpret statistical/analytical scenarios that best fit business solution.
6. Students are able to justify value and limitations of the statistical techniques to business decision making.

 
Description: Each week students were provided with three tutorial questions of varying degrees of difficulty.  These tutorial questions are available in the Tutorial Folder for each week on Blackboard. The Interactive Tutorials are designed to assist students with the process, skills and knowledge to answer the provided tutorial questions.  Your task is to answer a selection of tutorial questions for weeks 2 to 6 inclusive and submit these answers in a single document.
 
The questions to be answered are;
 
Week 2
Question 1 (10 marks)
 
In your own words, differentiate the following statistical terminologies with some examples.

2. Population Parameter and Sample Statistic                                                                 (2.5 marks)
3. Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics                                                                 (2.5 marks)
4. Nominal Scale and Ordinal Scale                                                                                 (2.5 marks)
5. Primary Data Source and Secondary Data Source                                                 (2.5 marks)

Week 3
Question 2 (10 marks)
 
Data showing the population by state in millions of people follow (The World Almanac, 2012).  The dataset in Excel file 2012Population.xlsx.

1. Develop a frequency distribution, a percent frequency distribution, and a histogram.

 
Week 4
Question 2 (10 marks)
 
Forty-three percent of Americans use social media and other websites to voice their opinions about television programs (the Huffington Post, November 23, 2011). Below are the results of a survey of 1364 individuals who were asked if they use social media and other websites to voice their opinions about Television programs
 

1. Show a joint probability table.                                                                                   (2 marks)
2. What is the probability a respondent is female?                                                              (2 marks)
3. What is the conditional probability a respondent uses social media and other websites to voice opinions about television programs given the respondent is female? (3 marks)
4. Let F denote the event that the respondent is female and A denote the event that the respondent uses social media and other websites to voice opinions about television programs.

Are events F and A independent?                                                                                             (3 marks)
 
Week 5
Question 3 (10 marks)
 
The average starting salary for this year’s graduates at a large university (LU) is $20,000 with a standard deviation of $8,000. Furthermore, it is known that the starting salaries are normally distributed.
 

1. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a starting salary of at least $30,400? (3 marks)
2. What is the probability that a randomly selected LU graduate will have a salary of exactly $30,400? (2 marks)
3. Individuals with starting salaries of less than $15600 receive a low income tax break.

What percentage of the graduates will receive the tax break?                       (2 marks)

1. If 189 of the recent graduates have salaries of at least $32240, how many students graduated this year from this university? (3 marks)

 
Week 6
Question 3 (10 marks)
 
The College Board reported the following mean scores for the three parts of the SAT (The World Almanac, 2009):
Critical reading                  502
Mathematics                      515
Writing                                 494
Assume that the population standard deviation on each part of the test is 100.
 

1. What is the probability that a random sample of 90 test takers will provide a sample mean test score within 10 points of the population mean of 502 on the Critical reading part of the

test?                                                                                                                                                 (4 marks)
 

1. What is the probability that a random sample of 90 test takers will provide a sample mean test score within 10 points of the population mean of 515 on the Mathematics part of the test? Compare this probability to the value computed in part (a). (6 marks)

 
Submission Directions:
 
The assignment has to be submitted via Blackboard.  Each student will be permitted one submission to Blackboard only.  Each student needs to ensure that the document submitted is the correct one.
 
 
             
 
Academic Integrity
Academic honesty is highly valued at Holmes Institute. Students must always submit work that represents their original words or ideas. If any words or ideas used in a class posting or assignment submission do not represent the student’s original words or ideas, the student must cite all relevant sources and make clear the extent to which such sources were used. Written assignments that include material similar to course reading materials or other sources should include a citation including source, author, and page number.
In addition, written assignments that are similar or identical to those of another student in the class is also a violation of the Holmes Institute’s Academic Conduct and Integrity Policy. The consequence for a violation of this policy can incur a range of penalties varying from a 50% penalty through to suspension of enrolment.  The penalty would be dependent on the extent of academic misconduct and the student’s history of academic misconduct issues.   All assessments will be automatically submitted to SelfAssign to assess their originality.
 
Further Information: 
For further information and additional learning resources, students should refer to their Discussion Board for the unit.
 

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