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Assignments’ Instructions and RequirementsFrom the top two hundred companies MY COMPANY IS -SMARTGRP CORPORATION- listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) download the 2017-2018 annual report and perform the followings:Required:1- From the annual report of your selected company and in addition, to providing examples identify and describe the accounting concepts used.2- What changes have been incorporated in the new accounting standard for lease AASB 16? Using your selected company and discuss the issue with examples.3- Summarise the key disclosures the company has made on its accounting for leases including on the transitional provision and effect of the transition to AASB 16 from AASB 117. Provide examples for your selected company.For additional guidance for marks allocations refer to the below marking rubric / guide.Students need to make sure that performing the assignment using the same company is not permitted. You need to discuss the selection of your company with your lecturer before start working on your assignment. (Financial institutions such as Banks are not permitted to be selected for the assignment as they fall under other reporting and compliance framework requirements)Other Instructions & Information• A title page with the name/s and student ID/s• References to be provided in the text and a reference list included at the end.• Identifying, analysing and arguing the core issues. Discuss relevant aspects and use of suitable examples in support of your arguments.• Answering the assignments questions. Be precise and answer to the point. Show evidence of good critical thinking and research beyond the prescribed text.• Logical arguments to establish your views.• Conclusion. A closing statement. What you have learnt from this assignment.• After writing your first draft, you will need to revisit your writing several times, refining your ideas and editing your work as you go. The final proofreading of your assignment will ensure that you don’t submit any careless errors that could have been easily avoided.• Marks have been allocated to each section of your assignment the Assignment is to be uploaded to Blackboard via the provided linkAssessment Criteria:Assessment of the case study will be based on the criteria listed below and your submission should include the following:This assignment is to be your own work. You will find information regarding plagiarism and academic misconduct in Blackboard. It is the responsibility of the student who is submitting the work, to ensure that the work is in fact her/his own work. Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work without appropriate acknowledgement is an academic offence. Students can submit all assignments for plagiarism checking (self-check) on Blackboard before final submission in the unit. For further details, please refer to the Unit Outline and Student Handbook. It is essential that students use a standard referencing style in their assignments – Holmes Institute uses the Harvard Referencing style.Students Please Note:Any material transcribed directly or paraphrased/sourced from the set textbook, other texts, journals, online material or a colleague’s assignment, and not properly referenced, will incur a penalty. Material in the assignment that bears a strong resemblance to another source and not correctly referenced will also be penalised.MARKING RUBRICAssignment Structure (3000 words limit)Does Not Meet Assignment’s RequirementsMeets The assignment’s Requirements Exceeds assignment’s Requirements MarkStructure The assignment is poorly structured The assignment is well structuredThe assignment is properly and professionally structured /1Introduction Unorganised introduction Good introductionWell-statured and professionally presented introduction /2Descriptions of Accounting ConceptsDoes not develop description coherently, overall unclear and improper structure and origination.Develops structured and coherent description of the concepts with overall good and proper structure, presentation and organisation.Description of the concepts are excellent, with consistent and clear presentation, in addition effective summary statements are developed in a professional manner. /3Why changes have been incorporated in the new accounting standard for lease AASB 16?Does not debate and discuss issue and the idea clearly and logically, overall unclear and improper structure and originationDevelops a structure and coherent debate and discussion with good and appropriate structure and organisations of paragraphs. Overall good, complete and relevant discussions.Develops an excellent debate and relevant discussions with consistent and clear presentation. In addition, effective summary statements are developed in a professional manner. /5Summarise the key disclosure the company has made on its accounting for leases including on the transitional provision and effect of the transition to AASB 16 from AASB 117Does not mention and analysis concepts and fundamental ideas clearly and logically, overall unclear and improper structure and originationAn overall analysis and discussion are consistent and coherent with good and appropriate structure and organisation of paragraphs. Overall good, complete and relevant discussionsDiscussion and Analysis are excellent, with consistent and clear presentation, in addition in a professional manner. /5ConclusionDoes not state an adequate concluding point, reflection on the main concepts as well as it does not state an overall summary of the topic.State and provide an adequate concluding point, reflection on the main concepts as well as it does state an overall summary of the topic.Provides an excellent and relevant discussion of the concluding points, reflections value added remarks. /2LanguageUses words term and terminology that are irrelevant, poorly written sentences and paragraphs with major errors.Words, term and terminology are accurate, good sentences and paragraphs structure. minor errors exist with no major confusion.Uses appropriate and relevant words, terms and terminologies with excellent English standard. Sentences shows no error. /1References usedIrrelevant, Insufficient and inappropriateappropriate Relevant, Appropriate and valid /1 Mark out of 20 20/
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Answer To: Assignments’ Instructions and RequirementsFrom the top two hundred companies MY COMPANY IS -SMARTGRP...

Akash answered on Sep 28 2021
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HA3011 ADVANCED FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
SMARTGROUP CORPORATION LIMITED
ACCOUNTING FOR LEASE AS PER AASB 16 LEASES
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
1. Accounting Concepts and Policies used by Smartgroup Corporation Ltd    3
Accounting Concepts used    3
Accounting Policies used    3
2. Changes inculcated the New Accounting Standard for Lease AASB 16    4
Lease    4
Operating Lease    5
Financial Lease    5
Accounting for Lease by the Company    5
AASB 16 Leases    6
3. Key Disclosures and Transitional Pr
ovision due to Adoption of AASB 16 Leases as well as their Impacts    6
Conclusion    8
References    9
Introduction
With the advent of globalisation, the technology has improved heavily. Improvement in technology and use of the same by companies has scaled up the business exponentially. With the increase in the size of the business, the difficulty in managing the business has increased. The same goes for maintaining the books of account. Various rules and frameworks have been framed by various regulatory bodies to ensure that the books of accounts reflect a true view of the business. In case of Australia, the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) is the body the frames and updates the accounting standards to be followed by organisation. This assignment deals with the accounting concepts used by Smartgroup Corporation to maintain their books of accounts.
1. Accounting Concepts and Policies used by Smartgroup Corporation Ltd
Accounting Concepts used
AASB is the body that sets up and updates the accounting standards in Australia to ensure that the financial statement show a true and fair view of the business of the entity. AASB 1 deals with the disclosures required to be made in the books of accounts of a company in Australia. The accounting standard ensures that the books of accounts are maintained with the global standards. This ensures transparency and accountability in maintaining the books of accounts. The basic accounting concepts that have been used are going concern, consistency, conservatism, matching, materiality and others. The going concern concepts states that the organisation intends to continue the business forever.
There is no intention to close or scale down the operations of the business. On the other hand, the consistency concept states that the books of accounts have been maintained using concepts that were used earlier also. Any changes in the concepts being used in the preparation of financial statement have been clearly stated in the annual report of Smartgroup Corporation Limited. The accrual concept used in the financial statement states that the revenue and expenses related to the period have been accounted in that period, irrespective of whether the cash has been received or not (Smartgroup, 2018).
Accounting Policies used
In case of Smartgroup Corporation Limited, significant accounting used by the management in preparation of financial report for the year 2018 has been clearly disclosed in note 41 of the notes of accounts. The first principle that has been used is the principle of consolidation. The financial statement incorporates the assets and liabilities of all the subsidiary companies of Smartgroup Corporation Limited. The acquisition method of accounting has been used for accounting of acquisition of subsidiaries. The current and non-current classification of assets has been done based on the current and non-current classification. An asset has been classified as current if the same is expected to be realised within the operating cycle of the company. As per the comments of Wilkins (2015), any changes in the accounting policy seem to be difficult but the changes sometimes ensure an increase in transparency and accountability.
The treatment of lease has been done as per the relevant accounting standard. The right to use the asset and the lease liability is recorded by the company on the date of lease commencement date. Straight-line method of depreciation is used to write off the right to use the leased asset. The company has number of intangible and non-financial assets like goodwill and others and the same is visible in the books of accounts of the entity. The company recognised the impairment loss depending on the difference between the assets’ carrying value and the recoverable amount from the same asset. The company computes the recovering amount by computing the difference between the costs of disposing the asset with the fair value of the asset.
The company has adopted a new policy from January 1, 2018 for recognition and measurement of financial instruments. After the adoption of new policy by Smartgroup Corporation Limited, the financial assets are classified as measured at Fair Value through profit or loss, fair value through other comprehensive income and amortised cost. The employee benefits are also being classified as short-term employee benefits, other long-term employee benefits, defined...
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