Assessment InstrumentCover Sheet
Course Code: BACC 205
Course Title: Principles of financial accounting
Semester: Spring
Academic year: 2023-2024
Assessment Instrument: Team project
Due Date: Week 14
Course Instructor: Dr. Mohamed Kolsi
College: DBS
This instrument assesses the following Course Learning Outcomes (CLO):
CLOs
3
Course Learning Outcomes (CLO)*
CLO 3: Evaluate financial statements based on GAAP
Questions
Marks
1
/20
Total
/20
*Linkages to Program Outcomes and Concentration Outcomes are provided in the Syllabus.
Question
Grade
Q1
Total
Out of
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Exam Instructions:
1. The team project MUST be submitted via Moodle and checked with Turnitin on
due date.
2. Delayed submissions (see deadline) are subject to marks’ deductions.
3. This is a team work. Copying from other groups or other sources without
references is not allowed and be subject to marks’ deductions/project rejection.
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Team Project guidelines
Project Question: CLO#3: describe and evaluate financial statements of a given
company in the UAE.
Total 20 marks
The group project consists of two parts : A written report (10 marks) and an oral
presentation (10 marks).
A. The written report must encompass the following 10 points:
1- Title: Examples:
a- Describe the recording process (journal, ledger, trial balance, and financial
statements) case of company (X).
b- Describe and Analyze accounting issues for:
• purchases,
• sales,
• receivables,
• inventory,
• cash,
• tangible assets, ……. Case of company (X)
c- Describe accounting issues for intangible assets case of company (X).
d- Historical cost versus fair value measurements in accounting case of company
(x).
e- Describe and analyze the process of physical inventory case of company (X).
f- Accounting for perpetual vs periodic inventory systems used by company (X)
2- Introduction: Example: the importance of (inventory, purchase cycle, sales cycle,
cash, receivables, …) for the firm (x).
3- Project objective: Example: to highlight accounting issues related to (fair value
concept, receivables, sales, cash, inventory ……) by UAE companies or firms.
4- Project question: Example: what are the different steps in the accounting process
?
How company X accounts for its receivables/tangible assets/cash/………..?
5- Methodology: A case study on the accounting process (sales, purchases,
inventories) for (SALIK, DU, Emirates Aviation Company, Dubai Islamic Bank,
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etc.……).
• Use a Questionnaire addressed to managers
• or interviews
• Analyze financial statements or accounting documents provided by company
X.
6- Results: an analysis of the main findings and interpretations based on journal
entries, figures, charts and graphs and financial statements.
7- Conclusion and limits: a summary of the main results and the main limits of the
research (data availability, information confidentiality, time constraint, etc).
8- Future perspectives: What is the future of accounting for intangible assets/
inventories/fair value accounting/Blockchain/Artificial Intelligence…. ?
9- References: Ordered alphabetically. Use Harvard or APA style only.
10- Appendices: any additional tables, charts, images etc.
B. Oral presentation: Consists of 10 slights PPT and each group will be granted 1012 minutes to present his work.
Important notes:
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All projects MUST be submitted before the due date via Turnitin on Moodle
https://moodle.ud.ac.ae/ using Word format only.
The deadline for submission is fixed to Week 14 and the presentation to
week 15.
The similarity index for the submitted work MUST be less than 20%.
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