Final Assignment ACCG891

Word length: 2,000 words (excluding bibliography, footnotes, etc).

The assignment must be typed (font must be easily readable and of adequate size – for
example, Times New Roman 12), single spaced and include a cover sheet including your
relevant details:
http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate/assignment_
coversheets
The assignment must be submitted via iLearn/Turnitin by 5pm Sunday 9/6/2019.
No extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks
made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the
submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission – 20% penalty). This penalty
does not apply for cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and
approved.
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The Question
In relation to one of the following topics/areas:
1.6 – Discovery
1.7 – Privilege
1.8 – Rules of Evidence
1.9 - Forensic Accountant as an Expert Witness

Analyse relevant regulation (such as case and statute law), principles, and
procedures. Within your answer explain, supporting your position, what you think the
regulation, principals, and procedures are seeking to achieve (that is, what is their
purpose).
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Assistance
Your answer should include:
Explanation of what the topic/area incorporates
Law that applies to the topic/area including relevant case and statute law, and any other
regulatory standards
Principles that underpin or impact upon the way the topic/area is regulated or operates
Procedures, or processes, that underpin or impact upon the way the topic/area is regulated,
managed, or operates
As a result of collecting, researching, and assessing source material give your opinion (with
supporting evidence) of what your inquiry into the topic/area has lead you to believe is the
reason for all of the concepts, rules and procedures – put another way: 1.6 - Why do we
need discovery? 1.7 - Why do we need privilege? 1.8 - Why do we need rules of evidence?
1.9 - Why are accountants useful as witnesses?
General
1. Keep within the word limit. Include a word count.
2. Your assignment must show an understanding and analysis of the relevant issues and
evidence of scholarly research.
3. Your assignment must show that you have considered the relevant material in some
depth, used effective and applicable source material, and formed an opinion.
4. The assignment must represent the result of the application of legal knowledge and skills,
it must display evidence of critical and analytical thinking, it must exhibit research capability,
and it must represent an ordered example of effective written communication.
5. The assignment should be more than just a textbook summary. Sources must be clearly
noted and attributed on every occasion and all direct quotations from sources indicated in
inverted commas. You must use a system of footnotes or endnotes or other clear means of
identifying your sources. Include a bibliography.