Question Details

You are required to use PRACTITIONER BASED ARTICLES IN ACCOUNTANCY AND OTHER ACCOUNTING INSTITUTE MAGAZINES. ACADEMIC PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS SUCH AS BRITISH ACCOUNTING REVIEW, ACCOUNTING EDUCATION, ETC A couple of examples of how the Kolb/Paul critical thinking model should look is attached, but the one you would do should be your own, not anyone elses......IT SHOULD HAVE THE EIGHT HEADINS but your own explanations/theories 


Assignment Title: Off balance sheet finance as a financial reporting practice is unethical.

Total 1,800 words

You are required to prepare:

a. A Kolb/Paul Critical Thinking Model that summaries the main features of your arguments and acts as a structure for your essay (about 30%) (One side of A4 type no smaller than 10)

b. An essay that develops, expands upon and illustrates your arguments (about 60%) (1500 words)

c. A brief self-reflective report on the usefulness of the Critical Thinking Model (about 10%). (300 words plus)

Off Balance Sheet Finance as a Financial Reporting Practice is Unethical
You will find there have been a number of famous accounting cases involving companies using off balance sheet finance to mislead shareholders and investors, such as Enron and more recently Lehman.
You will find some:
Practitioner based articles in Accountancy and other accounting institute magazines.
Academic papers in refereed journals such as British Accounting Review, Accounting Education, etc.
You are required to use both types of literature in your essay that needs to be fully referenced. 
I will know that you have used this literature by looking at your reference listing at the back of your essay and by reading your essay. 
References must be laid out in correct fashion and internet references without standard reference content such as author, title, etc will be ignored.



Marks will be awarded for:

1. The way you use the Kolb Critical Thinking Model. (One side of A4 type no smaller than 10)

2. The quality of your essay - see assessment criteria on next page. (1500 words) 

3. The quality of your self-reflective report. (300 words plus questionnaire)



The Financial Reporting Lectures will present a brief introduction to the Kolb-based Critical Thinking Model (also covered in last year's Study Skills Module).


Regarding part (c) of the assesment- a self-reflective report on the usefulness of the Critical Thinking Model, You are required to:

i) What did you like best about using the Critical Thinking Model to help you construct your essay? (about 150 words)

ii) What did you least like about using the Critical Thinking Model to help you construct your essay? (about 150 words)

Assessment criteria

Ability to use component of the Critical Thinking Model:

Experiences (from the professional literature)

World views in relation to off balance sheet finance

Purpose of essay


Analysis of question asked


Concepts (from the academic literature)

Reasons/Assumptions to back up assertions

Assertions

Consequences and implications


Overall issues:

Use of the Kolb-based Critical Thinking Model

Synthesis of the components to tell a integrated story

Ethical ideas well integrated in essay

Quality of self reflection

Clarity of expression

References


PLEASE I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU COULD DO THIS ESSAY, I ONLY WANT THE VERY BEST WORK......1ST CLASS GRADE NEEDED AND I NEED THE ESSAY TO BE DONE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS FOLLOWED STRICTLY. NO PLAYJARISM AND CORRECT REFERNCING. I WOULD GIVE YOU ENOUGH TIME BECAUSE I NEED FIRST CLASS STUFF. SO LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN DO THIS. THANKS


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