FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING THEORY & PRACTICE
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ACCT90013 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING THEORY & PRACTICE
Engagement Assignments
GENERAL
INFORMATION
This assignment consists of four summaries, each representing
7.5% and together representing 30% of your overall grade for
this subject.
This assignment is to be completed individually.
WORD LIMIT No more than 300 words for each essay.
ADMINISTRA-
TION
Assignments must be typed, 1.5-spaced with font size of 11
(Arial) or 12 (Times New Roman). All pages should be numbered.
SUBMISSION
Submission should be made via the LMS subject page.
Please make sure that you only submit the final version of the
assignment (as a pdf document) and that the file name has the
following format: Week(assigned lecture week
number)_(student number).pdf (without spaces), for
example, “Week5_1000000.pdf”. In your submission, please
provide a title and state your name and student ID.
FURTHER
INFORMATION
For information relating to plagiarism/collusion, late submission,
special consideration, referencing, penalties, teaching and
learning unit, please refer to the subject guide.
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Engagement Assignments
These assignments fulfil the purposes of getting you to engage with the materials, of applying
the concepts to current practice and real-world developments, and of learning how to update
your professional knowledge independently by reading high-quality business news. You are
allocated four lecture weeks with corresponding due dates in the following weeks before the
corresponding seminars.
Lecture Week and Topic Due Tuesdays 11.59AM (noon)
Week 3: Recognition 21 March
Week 6: Equity Valuation 18 April
Week 8: Compensation Contracting 2 May
Week 11: Disclosure 23 May
To complete the assignment, you should follow the following process:
1. Watch the lecture recording.
2. Pick one specific idea/observation/argument that was discussed in the lecture that
you want to explore further. Use a specific idea/observation/argument and not one
that is broad or generic (see further guidance below).
3. Find a high-quality business press article about a case company, fund, or
professional body online from the past 3 years (1 January 2020-now). As a student
at the University of Melbourne you have free-of-charge access to a wide range of
resources. The article must be in English, where notable newspapers and news outlets
include but are not limited to the (Australian) Financial Review, Bloomberg,
Thomson Reuters, New York Times, Forbes, Financial Times, The Economist, Wall
Street Journal, Fortune etc.