KOLEJ UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

FACULTY OF ACCOUNTANCY, FINANCE AND BUSINESS

ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

DIPLOMA YEAR 1 (ALL PROGRAMMES)

COURSEWORK 1 – GROUP ASSIGNMENT

ABFA1153 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I

PART A – General Information

1. Grouping for Coursework

The minimum student per group is 4 with maximum 6 members per group (from the same tutorial
class and programme).

2. Harvard Referencing Method

Harvard referencing shall be adopted for this coursework and you can generate of such format
using Microsoft Word. Kindly read, understand, and comply with the requirements of such standard.

3. Deadline for Submission

Your written report must be submitted to your respective tutor not later than 5pm, Friday, 31
July 2020.

5. Grading
A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D F
80 – 100 75 – 79 70 - 74 65 – 69 60 – 64 55 - 59 50 - 54 45 - 49 40 – 44 0 - 39

The total combined coursework 1 and 2 for this subject is 100 marks and a student securing a
minimum of 50 marks from the combined coursework 1 and 2 meet the minimum threshold marks
to avoid repeating this course. A student who failed to meet the minimum coursework marks may
need to pass a make good test.

6. Originality Report
You are required to Turn In the FINAL copy of the report (Google document) into the google
classroom. A percentage will appear indicating the figure you have plagiarized. An acceptable
percentage for this course is not exceeding 20%.

Any group assignment with a percentage exceeding 20% has an option to redo with the aim of a
lower percentage or being imposed a penalty deduction of 10 marks by the tutor concerned.
PART B – Research Project

1. Requirement
Write a research report of not more than 2,000 words on the following topics:
• Importance of accounting
• Users of accounting information
• Accounting equation (please link to double entry system)
• Source documents (please provide examples: invoice, credit note, debit note…)

2. Presentation and format

• You must not include in your word count the cover page, acknowledgement page, content
page etc.

• The font size shall be 11, font type is “Times New Roman” and line spacing – 1.5 lines.

• You are to include the following information on the cover page:

TARUC logo, course code and title, programme, class, name and student ID number, number
of words, submission date and the lecturer/tutor’s names.

• All coursework MUST be submitted in the following order:

- Cover
- Table of Content
- Declaration of plagiarism statement duly signed (Part C)
- Introduction (consider giving a summary of report)
- Content (refers to the researched item stated on requirement)
- Conclusion (state how this research shall help you as a consultant in the future or how
would the accounting assist you to interpret the performance of the company you are
attached in the future etc)
- Appendices (if any)
- References
PART C – Plagiarism

Plagiarism Statement Declaration Form

Semester : Semester 1
Course Code & Title : ABFA1153 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I

Declaration:

We confirm that we have read and shall comply with all the terms and condition of TARUC’s
plagiarism policy.

We declare that this assignment is free from all forms of plagiarism and for all intents and
purposes is my/our own properly derived work.

We further confirm that the same work, where appropriate, has been verified by antiplagiarism
software _______________ (please insert Originality percentage)

Name (in alphabetical order) Student ID Signature

Date: _________________
Part D – Marking Scheme

Description Excellent Good Average Poor Very Poor

(A) Source Documents / (18 – 20 marks) (14 – 17 marks) (10 – 13 marks) (6 – 9 marks) (1 - 5 marks)
Information Demonstrate excellent collation Demonstrate good collation of Demonstrate average collation Demonstrate poor collation of Demonstrate very poor collation
(20 marks) of source documents and source documents and of source documents and source documents and of source documents and
Identify and collect information that is relevant and information that is relevant and information that is relevant and information that is relevant and information that is relevant and
appropriate source appropriate for the type of appropriate for the type of appropriate for the type of appropriate for the type of appropriate for the type of
documents / information business selected. Minimum business selected. Minimum business selected. Minimum business selected. Minimum business selected. Minimum
from various sources relevant references were 10 from relevant references were 7 from relevant references were 5 from relevant references were 3 from relevant reference were less than
including text, journals, text, journals, websites etc. text, journals, websites etc. text, journals, websites etc. text, journals, websites etc. 3 from text, journals, websites
websites etc. where etc.
appropriate.
Sub Total (A)
(B) Report, presentation (25 – 30 marks) (19 – 24 marks) (13 – 18 marks) (7 – 12 marks) (1 – 6 marks)
& referencing Demonstrate excellent report Demonstrate good report writing Demonstrate average report Demonstrate poor report writing Demonstrate very poor report
(30 marks) writing skills that is concise skills that is quite concise writing skills that is somewhat skills that is not concise, simple, writing skills with lots of
Adequate research done to simple, accurate and complete. simple, accurate and complete. concise, simple, with some with some inaccurate and grammatical error and
support the report. Researches were thorough and Researches were thorough and inaccurate and incomplete incomplete passages. Researches inaccurate information. Most of
References were clearly complete that answer ALL complete that answer ALL passages. Researches were not were not that thorough and the passages were incomplete.
labeled and listed in the requirements stated on the requirements stated on the that thorough and complete and complete and fail to answer Researches do not care about the
table of contents, with the coursework. There were coursework. There were fail to answer some more than half of the coursework and was not that
page numbers easy to thorough write ups of relevant thorough write ups of relevant requirements (at least one) stated requirements stated on the thorough. They fail to answer
follow through by tutor. and complete definition where and complete definition where on the coursework. There were coursework. There were not so almost 75% of the requirements
appropriate. References were appropriate. References were not so thorough write ups of thorough write ups of relevant stated on the coursework. There
clearly labeled and in clearly labeled and in relevant and complete definition and complete definition where were no write ups of relevant
accordance to Havard accordance to Havard where appropriate. References appropriate. References were and complete definition where
referencing standard. Table of referencing standard. Table of were sometimes not completely sometimes not written or in appropriate. References were
contents, with the page numbers contents, with the page numbers written or in accordance to accordance to Havard mostly written and not in
were easy to follow through by were easy to follow through by Havard referencing standard. referencing standard. There accordance to Havard
tutor. Format were original and tutor. Format were original and There were at least 2 mistakes were at least 5 mistakes from the referencing standard. There
creative. creative. from the table of contents, with table of contents, with the page were more than 5 mistakes from
the page numbers and difficult numbers and difficult for tutor to the table of contents, with the
for tutor to follow through. follow through. Format were page numbers and difficult for
Format were similar to samples similar to samples and not that tutor to follow through. Format
and not that creative. creative. were similar to samples and not
that creative.

Sub Total (B)

GRAND TOTAL
(A+B)
Comments by tutor (for marks in Excellent or Very Poor bracket):