Section A

A blog that should make use of headings, sub-sections, columns and appropriate business-related images and illustrations. This format offers the opportunity to present academic and theoretical information in a practical, contextualised and creatively written way. The recommended word limit for the case study is 1,5002,000 words, although you will not be penalised for going under or exceeding the total word limit. All work must be supported with research and referenced correctly using the Harvard referencing system (or alternative referencing system).

You will need to provide a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system (or an alternative referencing system). Inaccurate use of referencing may lead to issues of plagiarism if not applied correctly. Your supervisor, one of the firms Key Account Managers, has asked you to prepare a blog that will be used to market and promote its accounting services to new and existing clients. The working title you have been given for the blog is The role of accounting in an organisation. The blog must be presented as an online blog in an engaging and practical way, covering relevant academic theory, making use of, for example, headings, images and illustrations. Your blog should include the following, but is not limited to: the purpose and scope of accounting in complex operating environments a critical evaluation of the accounting function in informing decision making and meeting stakeholder and societal needs and expectations the main branches of accounting and job skillsets and competencies accounting systems and the role of technology in modern-day accounting issues of ethics, regulation and compliance and the extent to which they are constraints or threats to the organisation.

Your supervisor, one of the firms Key Account Managers, has asked you to prepare a blog that will be used to market and promote its accounting services to new and existing clients. The working title you have been given for the blog is The role of accounting in an organisation. The blog must be presented as an online blog in an engaging and practical way, covering relevant academic theory, making use of, for example, headings, images and illustrations. Your blog should include the following, but is not limited to:

the purpose and scope of accounting in complex operating environments

a critical evaluation of the accounting function in informing decision making and meeting stakeholder and societal needs and expectations

the main branches of accounting and job skillsets and competencies

accounting systems and the role of technology in modern-day accounting

issues of ethics, regulation and compliance and the extent to which they are constraints or threats to the organisation.

Pass	Merit	Distinction
LO1 Examine the context and purpose of accounting
P1 Examine the purpose of the accounting function within an organisation.	M1 Evaluate the context and purpose of the accounting function in meeting organisational, stakeholder and societal needs and expectations.	D1 Critically evaluate the role of accounting in informing decision making to meet organisational, stakeholder and societal needs within complex operating environments.
P2 Assess the accounting function within the organisation in the context of regulatory and ethical constraints.
LO4 Prepare budgets for planning, control and decision-making using spreadsheets.		D3 Justify budgetary control solutions and their impact on organisational decision making to ensure efficient and effective deployment of resources.
P6 Prepare a cash budget from given data for an organisation using a spreadsheet.	M4 Identify corrective actions to problems revealed by budgetary planning and control for effective organisational decision making.
P7 Discuss the benefits and limitations of budgets and budgetary planning, and control for an organisation.