This requires you to prepare written report for your senior manager in the business/financial organisation/accounting practice that you are employed. :

• The scenario is that you are all graduate accountants / financial advisers working for an integrated accounting and financial planning organisation.
• As the graduate accountant/financial adviser (depending on your specialisation or major) you are required to attend a meeting with the firm's client and take notes and then prepare a response for the client.
• Your response will be reviewed by your senior manager and then by the senior partner/director of the organisation.
• The organisation that you work for has very high standards and will not tolerate spelling mistakes, or grammatical errors in your report. They will also not tolerate any copying of information from websites, textbooks or other sources without proper referencing.
• They expect to be able to see from your report, that you understand the relevant legislation, case law can apply it to the facts and come to a logical and well thought out conclusion.
• Any conclusions not supported by well-researched reasons will be marked down.
• The report will need to include :
  • written explanations,
  • calculations of numbers
  • simple and plain English
• You are preparing a report to the client who is not a corporate or financial law expert.
• Remember you are all on a 3-month probation period with the organization and your performance review is coming up in the next month.

Preparation for the question:

• Students should have been practising the exam-style based questions in your tutorial question set in preparation for this assessment.

In answering the question, you will need to ensure that you identify the issues, apply the relevant law and justify your answer. Merely stating they have breached a section without explaining why will not be accepted.

If you refer to case law or legislation you must use the RMIT Harvard method of referencing in your response.

Your report must meet the standards set by the organisation.

The questions will cover issues raised in topics 1-8 (week 1-7).