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Assignment Specifications Purpose: This assignment aims at developing a clear understanding of students on what qualifications and experiences employers seek from Corporate Accountants. Students will have to search and collect a significant number of job advertisements posted by employers in the electronic or print media or in the job search portals throughput the first 8 weeks of their trimester. Based on the collected job advertisements, they will have answer a series of questions and evaluate the qualifications and experiences sought in those advertisements with the learnings objectives, outcomes and contents of the subject. Assessment task: Collect as many job advertisements as possible on the position of ‘corporate accountant’, ‘corporate and management accountant’ ‘senior accountant’, ‘tax accountant’, ‘corporate financial accountant’ ‘corporate financial and management accountant’, ‘accountant corporate finance’, ‘senior financial accountant’ ‘senior accountant: tax and corporate reporting’ or any other similar positions published by Australian employers in electronic or print media or in job search portals (such as seek, Jora, Indeed etc.) from the first week of the Trimester to the week 7 of the Trimester.Based on your collected advertisements, do the following tasks: 1. How many job advertisements you have collected in total? How many job advertisements you have collected from each sources. 2. Lists the name of the organisations posting the job advertisements and show the industry breakdown of the organisations posting the job advertisements. 3. List all the job titles mentioned in the advertisements that you have collected. 4. List all the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements that you have collected. 5. List all the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements that you have collected with your detailed understanding of each of the attributes. 6. List all the academic and professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed in the advertisements that you have collected. 7. Based on the key roles, tasks, responsibilities identified from your collected job advertisements, how those key roles, tasks or responsibilities are related to the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting. 8. What additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement. 9. Critically examine the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. Also critically evaluate how the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting have helped you in gaining the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. Assignment Structure should be as the following: Abstract - One paragraph List of Content Introduction Body of the assignment with detailed answer on each of the required tasks Summary/Conclusion List of references ….. Page 3 of 6 HI5020 Corporate Accounting Marking criteria Marking criteria Weighting Abstract 1% List of content & overall presentation of the assignment 1% Introduction 1% How many job advertisements you have collected in total? How many job advertisements you have collected from each sources. 1% Lists the name of the organisations posting the job advertisements and show the industry breakdown of the organisations posting the job advertisements. 2% List all the job titles mentioned in the advertisements that you have collected. 2% List all the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements that you have collected with your detailed understanding of each of the attributes. 2% List all the key roles, tasks, responsibilities of a corporate accountant that have been listed in the advertisements that you have collected and analysed. 4% List all the academic and professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed in the advertisements that you have collected. 2% Based on the key roles, tasks, responsibilities identified from your collected job advertisements, how those key roles, tasks or responsibilities are related to the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting. 5% What additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement. 3% Critically examine the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. Also critically evaluate how the topics that you have learned in your MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting have helped you in gaining the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate accountant. 5% Conclusion 1% TOTAL Weight 30%

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Solution 1
No. Of job advertisements collected in total and the no. Of job advertisements collected from each source. 
  6 job advertisements have been searched. 3 from each source (Jora and Indeed)
Solution 2
Names of the organisations posting the job advertisements and the industry breakdown of the organisations posting the job advertisements
2.     Name of the Organization         Industry
	1. Armidale
	Counselling 
	2. Dogdayz
	Dog-boarding
	3. CIMIC Group (CPB Contractors)
	International contractor
	4. Darling Downs Health
	General hospital 
	5. CIMIC Group (Broad Construction)
	International contractor
	6. VIRTUAL BOOKKEEPER
	Bookkeeping and operational support functions 
	7. K-State
	University
	8. University of California Los Angeles
	University
	9. University of New England
	Education
	10. Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company
	Waste Management
 
	1. Hancock Natural Resource Group 
	Investment management services 
	2. AUB Group Limited
	ASX listed
	3. Karlka Recruiting Group
	 Debt collection 
	4. Moir Group
	Online company
	5. u&u. Recruitment Partners
	 Recruitment Partners
	6. CPL - Choice, Passion, Life
	Caring
	7. Goodman Fielder
	Food company
	8. Michael Page Accounting & Finance
	Homewares
	9. Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
	Museums
	10. Davidson Corporate
	Recruitment
	11. TMG Group
	Investment
	12. Sedgman Limited
	Construction
	13. BNP Paribas
	Tax services
	14. Sandvik
	Mining and construction industry
	15. Moore Stephens (WA) Pty Ltd
	Accounting and advisory
	16. Torque Recruitment
	Financial Group
	17. Perigon Group
	Education company
	18. Pitcher Partners Brisbane
	 Accountant 
	19. Lopaker
	 Digital Marketing Agency 
	20. Superior People Recruitment
	Recruitment
Solution 3
Job Titles are:
Accountant, A person who records the financial processing of any organisation, i.e. an accountant has an imperative place in accountant plays a vital role in identifying the growth of the organisation. Verifiable, there exists endless back up of write ups explaining the job profile of accountants. During our previous sessions discussions we’re held stating the moral gauges or issues related to an accountant. An expert accountant delivers top notch standards of work and factual suggestions to the business visionaries. Accountants elevate the worth and credibility of the organisation by working in unison with the guidelines and standards issued by the government. Managing loans, payments, etc. and helping the organisation to manage the financial activities on time adds to the credibility of the organisation. As they view and review the financial matters of the business, they automatically come across the sections where the organisation needs to invest or where there is a need of cost cutting. Eventually, they also suggest the business about the latest technology which can be implemented in the system which would add towards smooth functioning of the organisation. In the while, an accountant is a power for an organisation.
Corporate Accountant, Corporate accountants represent considerable authority in business accounting and takes care of an organisation's financial mattersand confirms that it works in unison with guidelines and the firm's rules and regulations. A large part of it crafted by corporate accountants is deployed within the organisation to enable administrators to decide on  money related decisions of the organisation. 
Senior Accountant, "Crucial to each great business is an extraordinary lateral of business, who is the expert accountant." Considered by numerous individuals, in terms of any organisation, maintaining accounts in all the truth is a dubious definition.  There exists numerous sorts of accounting each with its own accreditations and prerequisites.  Three basic sorts of accountants are there
· Public book keeper/ accountant or CPA. This is an individual who works for a business operating in public sector. In public sector firm, the activity is to proceed to assess the working of an organization through reviewing fiscal reports. 
· Corporate accountant- An accountant who works within an organisation to  assesses the credit and worth of the organization through formation and investigation of the fiscal reports
Tax Accountant, In order to handle the money related affairs of the organisation professionally must appoint a tax accountant. These personnel are pretty aware of the guidelines issued for taxation and work accordingly to identify the transactions done and all financial proceedings. In addition to this, tax accountants also act as advisors to the organisation suggesting the firm about tax rebate measures, assets management, eradication of tax penalties, changes in tax laws, assistance in disputes arising legally, aids in auditing sessions, selection of apt taxation policy and so on. On the whole hiring a tax accountant is a wise choice for effective and profitable financial management of any organisation. Eventually, the organisation also gets trained to work with the tax rules and regulations. 
Financial Accountant, These individuals are crucial part of any business who maintains records of financial transactions, including credit, debit, returns, records them, checks and forwards it to the next level of organisation for further processings. They segregate the accounts on the basis of category applicable for easy audit. Application of appropriate tax plans is also one of their duty. 
Senior Financial Accountant, Individuals have to attain qualification to work as Senior financial accountants Let’s have a quick glance on the job profile of a senior financial accountant to identify whether this job is apt for any individual or not.Being a part of top management, senior work towards identification of the economic status of the business which provides data to be presented in annual reports. Any body who wishes to work as a financial accountant is required to be post graduate in financial accounting. In addition to this a work experience makes the resume even stronger. The major role of an financial accountant is to analyse the information and data provided by the organisation's accounts department. 
Solution 4
All the personal attributes required from a corporate accountant that have been mentioned in the job advertisements collected:
Personal Attributes: 
Conceptual Knowledge of Australian Accounting Standards: Knowledge of Accountancy,  Corporate Finance, skills required for preparing reports, should be capable of working within timelines, can do in depth study of the results obtained from accounting,  SFAS Rules, can maintain privacy, capable of managing accounting data, mathematical skills are essential.With the advancement of technology and digitisation the work culture for accountants is changing at a rapid pace. In order to adapt to these changes the education providers are required to impart knowledge of soft (or technical skills) to their accounting students so that they can get jobs in this technical world. This will eventually help them contribute to the revenue of the organisation. [1]. Why enhancement if skills is important is generatedin the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB)’s 2015 release of International Education Standard (IES) 3 Initial Professional Development – Professional Skills. What reflected here is the level of professional skills required to perform the duties of an accountant. The skills are categorised into 4 types:based on mind set, interpersonal and communication, personal, and organisational.It illustrates the purpose, facts, concepts of accounting. The objective of the Conceptual Framework is to:

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