MBA FP 6014 Muscat college Seseka Trading Financial Accounting Analysis
| Submission Deadline | Marks and Feedback |
| Before 10am on:
20/06/2020 |
20 working days after deadline (L4, 5 and 7) 15 working days after deadline (L6) 10 working days after deadline (block delivery)
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| Unit title & code | Accounting For Leaders & SHR036-6 |
| Assignment number and title | Main Assignment A1 |
| Assignment type | Report |
| Weighting of assignment | 25% |
| Size or length of assessment | 1600 |
| Unit learning outcomes | 1. The main aim of this unit is to demonstrate how managers can use accounting and financial information for planning, decision-making and control. The unit aims to help students to develop the skills necessary to interpret and analyze financial information, to address management problems.
2. The unit incorporates the application of absorption and marginal costing techniques to short term decision-making problems prevalent in the business environment and concludes with time-value-of-money, and related techniques, for the selection of long-term investment projects.
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| What am I required to do in this assignment? |
| The Chief Executive Officer of Abdul Wahab Investments is considering the financial information of SesekaTrading, for the year ending 31 July 2019. They are considering acquiring the company shares and trying to decide whether to bid for control or to take a smaller stake in the business.
The following additional information is relevant: a) Purchase and sales are made evenly throughout the year b) All purchases and sales are made on credit terms c) Inflationary effects are to be ignored d) The company makes and sells only one product e) There was investment in Plant & Equipment during 2018 totaling OMR 250m.
Required As a Management Consultant, you are required to produce 1500 words report (structure 5 marks) for the Board of Directors of Abdul Wahab Investments, which covers, inter alia, the following regarding Seseka Trading:
(Total 100 marks)
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| What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF) |
| In order to pass Assessment 1, you will need to:
Demonstrate an ability to classify and analyze, to a limited level, the five groups of ratios commonly deployed in the business context. Apply, to a satisfactory level the outcomes the above information provides, in both horizontal and vertical analysis of financial statements in the business context.
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| How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade? |
| Your work should show a critical insightful evaluation of the information provided. There should be high level of creativity, and independent thought.
Extensive evidence of advanced applications and/or empirical results, where applicable, informed extensively by current research and practice in the area
Your work should show remarkably high level of competence in analysing and interpreting the financial performance of the company under consideration, and assessment of the completeness of the information provided and its implications for your analysis and advice
The conclusions should be outstanding, logical and consistent with the information provided and a recommendation based upon the information provided, as to whether Abdul Wahab Investments should purchase an interest in SesekaTrading, take a controlling stake, or not invest at all
Overall, the work should be Outstanding, well-directed presentation, logically and coherently structured, using correct grammar, spelling and accurate referencing and presentation |
| How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions? |
| The main aim of this unit is to demonstrate how managers can use accounting and financial information for planning, decision-making and control.
The unit aims to help students to develop the skills necessary to interpret and analyse financial information, to address management problems.
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| How will my assignment be marked? |
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Your assignment will be marked according to the threshold expectations and the criteria on the following page.
You can use them to evaluate your own work and consider your grade before you submit.
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| Pass – 40-49% | Pass – 50-59% | Commendation – 60-69% | Distinction– 70%+ | |
| Report structure & Referencing (5%) | Weak presentation and structure, grammar, and spelling. Limited or no referencing
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Adequate presentation and structure, acceptable grammar and spelling. Adequate referencing and bibliography
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Good presentation competently structured, using correct grammar and spelling. Comprehensive referencing and bibliography | Excellent presentation, logically structured, using correct grammar and citation. Outstanding referencing and bibliography |
| Analysis and interpretation of the available information provided
(25%) |
Basic categorization of ratios and basic analyses of ratios | Good categorization of ratios and limited analyses of ratios but demonstrates links between ratios and non-financial information.
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Good categorization of ratios and good analyses on ratios with sound rationales | Excellent categorization of ratios and detailed analyses of how each ratio has been changed with sound rationales and able to link with non-financial information |
| An assessment of the completeness of the information provided and its implications for your analysis and advice
(20%) |
Basic assessment of the completeness of the information provided and its application | Good assessment of the completeness of the information provided and its application
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Very good assessment of the completeness of the information provided and its application | Excellent assessment of the completeness of the information provided and its application |
| Areas that, in your assessment, require further investigation (15%) | Basic identification of areas that require further investigation | Good identification of areas that require further investigation
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Very good identification of areas that require further investigation | Excellent identification of areas that require further investigation |
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Limitations of your analysis and interpretation (20%) |
Basic identification of the limitations of your analysis | Good identification of the limitations of your analysis
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Very good identification of the limitations of your analysis | Excellent identification of the limitations of your analysis |
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Recommendation based upon the information provided, as to whether to purchase an interest, take a controlling stake, or not invest at all in the other company (15%) |
Basic recommendations and/or recommendations not grounded in analysis. | Draws good recommendations grounded in analysis of practical situation
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Draws appropriate recommendations well-grounded in analysis of practical situation.
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Draws insightful recommendations thoroughly grounded in in-depth analysis of practical situation.
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