Subject: Corporate and Financial Accounting, write the paper pay attention to read the source and follow the assignment details, focus on duplicate checking and paraphrase do not miss any key point and follow the introduction. (this is Australian subject)

pay attention to read the source and follow the assignment details, focus on duplicate checking and paraphrase do not miss any key point and follow the introduction. (this is Australian subject)

HA2032 Corporate and Financial Accounting
Trimester 2 2018
Individual Assignment
Assessment Value: 20%
Instructions:
1. This assignment needs to be submitted using safe-assign. No hardcopy or email
attachment will be accepted.
2. It is the responsibility of the student who is submitting the work, to ensure that the work
is in fact her/his own work. Plagiarism will be heavily penalised
3. Maximum marks available: 20 marks
4. Assignment should be of 2,000 words. Please use “word count” and include in report.
5. Due date of submission: Week 10, Friday at 11.59 p.m.
Format of the Report

1. Your submitted assignment at least should have the following details:
a. Assignment Cover page clearly stating your name and student number
b. A table of contents, executive summary
c. A brief introduction or overview of what you have discussed in this assignment
d. Body of the report where you write your answers with appropriate section headings
e. Conclusion
f. List of references.
ASSIGNMENT TASKS
CORPORATE REGULATION (5 Marks)
(i) Do your own research and critically discuss whether the financial accounting and reporting
should be regulated or manager should be allowed to disclose financial accounting
information voluntarily.
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ACCOUNTING STANDARD SETTING (5 Marks)
(ii) Do your own research and critically explain how the Australian Accounting Standards Board
take part in the global accounting standard setting process (i.e. in setting IFRS). Why is the
IFRS set by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) not compulsory for the
member countries of IASB?
OWNERS EQUITY (10 Marks)
Select 4 public limited companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that
are in the same industry. Go to the website of your selected companies. Then go to the
Investor Relations section of the website. This section may be called, “Investors”,
“Shareholder Information” or similar name.
In this section, go to your firms’ annual reports and save to your computer your firms’ latest
annual reports consecutively for last four years. Do not use your firms’ interim financial
statements or their concise financial statements. Please read the financial statements
(balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in owner’s equity, cash flow
statement) very carefully. Also please read the relevant footnotes of your firms’ financial
statements carefully and include information from these footnotes in your answer.
You need to do the following tasks:
(iii) From your firms’ financial statements, list each item of equity and write your
understanding of each item. Discuss any changes in each item of equity for your
firms over the past four years articulating the reasons for the change.
(iv) Provide a comparative analysis of the debt and equity position of the four firms that
you have selected.
Please prepare the above answers in your own words.
Best of Luc