Assessment
ACCT5961 (Assessment 1) - 25%
Content Analysis of a
Sustainability Report (Individual)
Assessment Description
This essay aims for students to gain knowledge of information typically provided in
sustainability reports. A company will be allocated students in groups to perform a
content analysis of a sustainability report. As part of this assessment, students will
identify the company’s approach to sustainability, identify the company’s initiatives
with regards to social and environmental impacts of the company’s business
operations and then critically evaluate the company’s strategy and its societal
impact.
Assessment Length
2–3-page Content Analysis (Font 12 including references; cover page excluded)
Submission
Individual assignments must be submitted in pdf format through a submission link in
Moodle by 5pm in Week 4 (Friday, 28 June).
Each submission must be submitted with a cover sheet (excluded from page count).
The assignments will be checked using a plagiarism software, so it is the
responsibility of the student to ensure that no plagiarism occurs, and quoted text is
properly cited.
Penalties apply for late submissions (10% per day) and if plagiarism is detected.
Assessment information
Required:
1. Download from the Company’s website the annual corporate
report/sustainability report of your assigned company (or Company’s website).
Your assigned company will be the organisation assigned to your group. See
company allocated to your group below.
Group 1 Sanford Group 6 Suncorp
Group 2 AGL Group 7 Sunrice
Group 3 ASX Limited Group 8 GPT
Group 4 Transurban Group 9 Qantas
Group 5 Westpac Group 10 Bluescope
2. Peruse corporate annual/sustainability report of your assigned company and
understand the company’s business and identify its purpose, mission, business
strategy, vision, corporate values and culture, if disclosed.
3. Identify initiatives that address social and/or environmental issues that are
relevant and material to the organisation’s business and purpose. Quality of
discussion will be assessed in the ability of the student to identify what is
significant to the organisation. For example, energy companies will typically
reduce its environmental impact.