200267Advanced Accounting, Individual Assignm ent, Autum n 201.docx

200267Advanced Accounting, Individual Assignm ent, Autum n
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200267 Advanced Accounting
Autumn Semester 2014
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
Due: Week 11, Friday 9th May 2014
Question:
Hines (1989, p 89) argues that conceptual frameworks are ‘a
strategic manoeuvre for
providing legitimacy to standard-setting boards during periods
of competition or
threatened government intervention’. Write an essay to explain
what is the basis of Hine’s
argument. Your essay should also include a discussion of
whether or not the history of the
development of conceptual frameworks be used to support her
position. Provide evidence
to support your answer.
How to present your work
1. You must submit Microsoft Word (electronic) copy of your
assignment through vUWS by

10pm Friday 9th May 2014 (week 11).
2. Your assignment must be scanned using the anti-plagiarism
software Turnitin ®. The
Turnitin plagiarism prevention system is being used with this
unit. It is an important tool to
assist students with their academic writing by promoting
awareness of plagiarism. Please make
use of this tool to improve your essay and iron out any
plagiarism issues prior to your final
submission. The system will allow you to overwrite your
submission up until it is due. All
assessments must be submitted via the Turnitin system (unless
alternative arrangements are
advised by your lecturer) on or before the due date and time.
3. The essay should be approximately 1,500 words in length
(excluding appendices, tables,
diagrams and references) and conform to the marking guide
provided.
4. Use the Assignment Cover Sheet and include your Name and
Student ID on the cover sheet.
5. Ensure that the declaration is signed and dated on the
Assignment Cover Sheet.
6. Students are to keep a copy of all assignments submitted for
marking.
7. It is extremely important that you are familiar with the
university policy on plagiarism
that is included in the Unit Guide.
8. The file name for the electronic copy must follow the
following pattern: your student ID
number followed by 200267Assignment. For example if your

student ID number is 17432968,
the file name should be 17432968_200267Assignment.
9. Assessment percentage. 15% (out of 100% total for the unit).
Essay will be marked out of 50
and converted to 15 %.
10. Your essay must follow essay structure.
11. Key factors to keep in mind when writing your essay are:
• Ensure that all in-text references are accurate and comply with
the Harvard referencing
style. A guide is available on the UWS Library website with
examples to assist you. Ensure
you use only credible sources appropriate to your level of
studies. Wikipedia, for example,
is not a credible source. A Reference list of works of all works
cited in your essay must be
provided.
• Ensure you use accurate your spelling and grammar. It is often
best to state things simply
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and clearly rather than using complicated language in the wrong
context.
• An essay should begin with an introduction, which outlines
key arguments and defines key

terms. Make it clear in the first paragraph how you are planning
to address the question.
• Each paragraph should contain a topic sentence (what
summarises the main idea in this
paragraph) and be followed by supporting sentences (and
citations), which expand and
provide more detail on the idea raised. A common student
mistake is to write topic
sentence after topic sentence. This makes essays seem like they
are jumping from one idea
to the next and will often attract feedback stating “no depth”.
The supporting sentences
are crucial to examine the initial idea in more detail and
demonstrate an argument along
with understanding. Ensure you examine each idea in enough
detail – examine the idea
fully before moving on.
• Remember that the marker can only mark what you actually
said on the paper, not what is
in your head or what you “meant to say”. For this reason, it is
essential to review your own
work in order to reveal flaws in structure or writing.
• Conclusions should never introduce new ideas, but instead
should summarise the
arguments and leave the reader with a resounding “take home
message”, hopefully
convincing them you have answered the question.
• The most common criticism faced by students in this unit is
not answering the question.
Discussion around a topic is not answering the question. It is
often a helpful technique to
use the essay question as part of your essay structure. You are

the bouncer at the door of
your own essay: choose which ideas get in. Choose the ideas
that directly address the
question.
Assessment Criteria:
A matrix outlining the assessment criteria and how your work
will be assessed against
these criteria is presented on the next page.
Reference
Hines, R. (1989), ‘Financial accounting knowledge, conceptual
framework project and the social
construction of the accounting profession’, Accounting,
Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2(2), pp. 72-
92.
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Individual Assignment (15%)
Marking criteria and standards
CRITERIA UNSATISFACTORY NEEDS
IMPROVEMENT
MEETS
EXPECTATIONS
EXCEEDS
EXPECTATIONS

Identifies and
uses relevant
information to
support
conclusions
reached:
Use a range of
information
sources
Only the text-book
and internet
sources.
A limited range of
texts, internet
sources,
professional and
academic
journals.
A comprehensive
range of texts,
internet sources,
professional and
academic journals.
An extensive range of
texts, internet
sources, professional
and academic
journals.

0 1 2 3 4 5
Presents a well-
structured
argument within
the word limit
and conclusions
are convincing
Assignment is
poorly structured
and/or unconvincing
and/or outside the
word limit.
Assignment could
be better
structured and/or
the conclusions
reached are not
persuasive and/or
outside the word
limit.
Acceptable
structure. The
conclusions
reached are
convincing. Length
is within the set
limits.
Well structured.
Conclusions are

argued in a very
persuasive manner.
Length is within the
set limits.
0 2 3 5 6
8 9 10
Addresses the
requirements of
the assignment
question:
Dumps information.
Shows no evidence
of critical
consideration of
relevant
information.
Shows some
evidence of
critical
consideration of
relevant
information, but
may be poorly
integrated.
Shows evidence of
critical
consideration of
relevant
information, but
may require better
organisation.

Critically chooses
information and
clearly integrates it to
support the
conclusions reached.
2 5 6 10 11 15 16
20
Presents with
clarity:
References and
paraphrases
correctly. [Note:
Use of the
“Harvard”
system or
similar
referencing
approach is
required i.e. no
footnotes]
In-text citation
and/or paraphrasing
and/reference
missing or
substantially
incomplete.
In-text citation
and/or
paraphrasing

and/reference
have a number of
errors.
Satisfactory in-text
citation,
paraphrasing and
reference, possibly
with a few minor
errors.
Excellent in-text
citation, paraphrasing
and reference.
0 1 2 3 4
5
Presents with
clarity:
Uses clear
prose style:
sentence
structure,
grammar,
spelling, etc.
Writing style is poor
and difficult to
follow and/or
marred by many
grammatical and/or

spelling errors.
Writing style
requires
improvement but
is largely
coherent. There
are grammatical
and/or spelling
errors.
Writing style is
coherent, with
possibly a few
grammatical and/or
spelling errors.
Writing is clear and
error-free,
demonstrating
superior written
communication skills.
0 2 3 5 6 8 9
10
Total Mark out of 50
Inputs, Outputs & Process
To start your pseudocode, think of your inputs and outputs first.
Complete the boxes below. Once you are done filling in the
blanks, upload this file to Angel.
Inputs:

Round, Square, Small, Medium, Large, Xlarge, Pepperoni, Ham,
Sausage, Bacon, Cheese, Peppers, Pineapple, Mushrooms,
Chicken, Onions
Problem Statement
SubT=PizzaCost+TopCost
Total=SubT+Tax
Outputs:
“Welcome”,PizzaCost, TopCost, SubT, Tax, Total
Variables
Variable
Data Type
Brief Outline (or the 30,000 foot view)
In the space provide, create a brief outline of this problem.
A Little Closer Look
Now that you have your outline, file in some of the details.

Place your detailed outline below.
Page 1 of 6
Homework # 4 ~ Calories Consumed & Burned
Points: 75
Trying to Get Some Exercise
You have decided that you need to start eating better and
getting some exercise. Since you like riding
your bike when the weather is nice and you have access to
stationary bike when the weather is not good,
you decide to start cycling every day. Also you want to keep
better track of the calories you have
consumed throughout the day. At the end of the week you want
to know the following:
What is the total calories consumed and burned for each day?
Assume that for every minute you
are cycling you burn 10 calories.
What is the deficit or difference between the number of
calories you consume and burn?

What is the average calories that you burn and consume?
What day did you consume the highest amount of calories?
What day did you burn the highest
calories?
What day did you consume the least amount of calories? What
day did you burn the least calories?
Every day you plan on logging in a notebook the total number
of calories you consume
(approximately) and how many minutes you spend on either or
both bikes. At the end of the week you
plan on loading all of these numbers into a program so that you
can analyze the data.
Program Requirements
Your program will need to do the following:
Feature a menu so that all you need to do is enter a letter and
the program will perform the
necessary task. Use the following letters to correspond to what
the program needs to do:
Menu Option Operation
T Get Total Calories Consumed and Burned. This will also
print out
calories consumed and burned per day

D Get the deficit or difference between the total calories
consumed and
burned
A Get the averages
H Get the highest calories consumed and burned and the
corresponding
days in which this happened
L Get the lowest calories consumed and burned and the
corresponding
days in which this happened
E Exit or exits the program
Make sure that whatever choice you make from the menu that it
is validated and will not cause the
program to stop prematurely
Allow you to pick numerous tasks before you are done with the
program. HINT: you will need a
loop here.
Load both Cycling and Eating amounts when the program
loads. In other words, you will not get
prompted to load these values separately. Instead you will
initialize your arrays with these

numbers at the beginning of the program.
Nice clean output.
Utilization of modular programming. At the minimum you
should have 5 modules.
Some Help with the Logic
This program will need to use numerous modules. After you
code each module, run it to test it and
debug it, if necessary. Do not move on to your next module
until you have successfully tested the module
you are currently working on.
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It is all in the Planning
Open up the planning document or a notepad file and start to
figure out what this program needs to
do, the inputs, the outputs, the variables, the 30,000 foot view
and your pseudocode. If you do not want
to use the planning document provided, make sure you have all
the necessary components in your
notepad file.

Time to Test the Logic
Now that you have planned out your attack, test your logic
using Raptor. Use the following test data
to test your program.
Cycling Eating
15 2,600
10 2,400
20 3,500
18 3,200
25 2,700
10 3,300
5 3,000
Here is my output when I selected T in Raptor:
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Here is my output when I select D in Raptor
Here is my output when I select A in Raptor
Here is my output when I select H in Raptor
Page 4 of 6
Here is my output when I select L in Raptor
Time to Code
Once you have your Raptor file working, now it is time to
translate that to Python. Open up IDLE and
create a new window. Save your file and give it a name. Open
your Raptor file and your new window so
that you can see both in your computer screen (like we did in
the labs). Translate your Raptor file to
Python. As you are putting this together keep the following in
mind:
Remember the proper flow
the top, fill the variables, process

the variables and print out the variables
Choose good variable names. These are not too long but
descriptive.
Take care with your output. This does need to make sense.
Don’t forget your comments! Points will be deducted.
Since this program is a little longer than your lab programs,
test as you go. If you type all of your
code in and then test at the end, your debugging will last longer.
Once you have your code typed in, using the test data above,
test your program. My output looked
like the following when I entered T:
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When I entered D
When I entered A
When I entered H

When I entered L
Try to get your program to look as much like mine as you can.
Utilize the format function and the tab
character to line your output up.
Page 6 of 6
How I Will Be Graded
Please remember that in order to get a C or better in this course,
this
assignment must be completed. Failure to complete this
assignment will result
in a grade of C- or worse.
Exemplary
Competent
Developing

11
Completion of Planning
Document
8.8
Planning Document is missing a
minor element
6.6
Planning Document is missing a
major element
7 Completion of Raptor File 5.6
Raptor file is missing a minor
element or has a small bug.
4.2
Raptor file is missing a major
element or contains multiple bugs.
2 Comments in the code 1.6 Only one comment in code 1.2
Missing comments
2
Variables declared with
appropriate data types and
appropriate names
1.6
More than one variable
declaration missing or improperly
declared
1.2
More than three variables missing.

0 points will be given if there are
no declarations. OR was able to
complete variable declarations in
Raptor file.
3 Displayed menu 2.4
Minor error with the display of the
menu
1.8
Major error with the display of the
menu or was able to display a
menu in Raptor
5
Retrieved the user's choice
from the menu and validated
it.
4
Minor error with input validation
on user's choice.
3
input validation present with a
major error OR input validation
done correctly in Raptor
8
Get Totals module prints out
the total calories burned and
consumed. Also prints out the
calories burned and consumed
for each day.

6.4
Minor error with the print out of
each days calories burned and
consumed or minor error in the
calculation of total calories burned
or consumed
4.8
Major error with the print out of
each day’s calories burned and
consumed or was able to achieve
all exemplary items in Raptor.
6
Get Deficit module displays the
difference between calories
consumed and burned for each
day.
4.8
Minor error in the calculation or in
the display of the difference.
3.6
Major error in the calculation or in
the display of the difference or was
able to achieve all exemplary items
in Raptor.
5
Get Average module calculates
and displays the average

calories burned and consumed.
4
Minor error in either average
calculation.
3
Major error in either calculation or
was able to achieve all exemplary
items in Raptor.
7
Get Highest module
determines the highest amount
of calories burned and
consumed. Also determines
the corresponding day those
values occurred.
5.6
Minor error in determining the
highest values and/or day.
Amounts or day still are outputted
to the user.
4.2
Major error in determining the
highest values and or day. One or
either are missing from the output
or was able to achieve all
exemplary items in Raptor.
7

Get Lowest module determines
the lowest amount of calories
burned and consumed. Also
determines the corresponding
day those values occurred.
5.6
Minor error in determining the
lowest values and/or day.
Amounts or day still are outputted
to the user.
4.2
Major error in determining the
lowest values and or day. One or
either are missing from the output
or was able to achieve all
exemplary items in Raptor.
2
Output looks professional and
includes the use of the tab
character and the format
function.
1.6
Missing one of the required
elements.
1.2
Missing more than one of the

requirement elements or was able
to get all required elements to
print in Raptor
65 TOTAL POINTS 52
39.0
Handing it all in
1) Log on to our Angel course shell. Navigate to the Homework
#4 Drop Box. Upload your planning
document, your Raptor file and Python file to drop box. Before
you upload your files make sure you
click on the rubric to make sure you have everything done.

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