There are 3 short answer questions in this paper. Type your answers where indicated. Your answers can be in bullet point form.

A local resort in the Blue Mountains is for sale.

1. What are the potential valuation effects of COVID-19 and of the bad bushfire season the year before? Identify how these events would be taken into consideration in a valuation model. Be sure to identify positive or negative valuation effects and whether these effects are short term or long term.

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The government has identified an area of the national park near the resort that they are going to release for sale for development to raise money. The sale of the land is being done by sealed bid auction with the government committee deciding which offer to accept based on several criteria including the amount offered as well as the plans for development. You find out that someone on the committee is trying to solicit a kickback of 15% to award the contract.

2. You tell your boss and she tells you that this is how the industry works. What should you do? Can you identify any examples of this type of corruption has occurred in Australia or by Australian companies?

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The resort monitors all the sales and COGS in each of the departments and they noticed that COGS have been increasing in the restaurant without any change in the revenues.

What are some of the possible explanations for the increasing COGS? How would you investigate fraud-related potential explanations?