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Contents
Introduction 4
Assessment for this unit 4
Assessment Task 1: Knowledge questions 5
Information for students 5
Questions 6
Assessment Task 1: Checklist 13
Assessment Task 2: Project 14
Information for students 14
Activities 15
Assessment Task 2: Checklist 22
Final results record 25
Introduction
Welcome to the Student Assessment Tasks for SITXFIN009 Manage finances within a budget. These
tasks have been designed to help you demonstrate the skills and knowledge that you have learnt during your
course.
Please ensure that you read the instructions provided with these tasks carefully. You should also follow
the advice provided in the Hospitality Works Student User Guide. The Student User Guide provides
important information for you relating to completing assessment successfully.
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Student assessment agreement
Make sure you read through the assessments in this booklet before you fill out and sign the agreement
below.
If there is anything that you are unsure of, consult your assessor prior to signing this agreement.
Have you read the assessment requirements for this unit? Yes No
Do you understand the requirements of the assessments for this unit? Yes No
Do you agree to the way in which you are being assessed? Yes No
Do you have any specific needs that should be considered? If so, Yes No
explain these in the space below.
I declare that all assessment tasks will be my own work and I will not cheat or plagiarise the work or
collude with any other student(s).
I understand that if I am found to have plagiarised, cheated or colluded, action will be taken against
me according to the process explained to me.
I will correctly reference all resources and reference texts throughout these assessment tasks.
Sushmita Sharma
Student name
M400017
Student ID number
Sushmita Sharma
Student signature
28.03.2024
Date
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Student declaration
To be filled out and submitted with assessment responses
I declare that this task is all my own work and I have not cheated or plagiarised the work or
colluded with any other student(s).
I understand that if I am found to have plagiarised, cheated or colluded, action will be taken against
me according to the process explained to me.
I have correctly referenced all resources and reference texts throughout these assessment tasks.
Sushmita Sharma
Student name
M40017
Student ID number
Sushmita Sharma
Student signature
28.03.2024
Date
Assessor declaration
I hereby certify that this student has been assessed by me and that the assessment has been carried out
according to the required assessment procedures.
Assessor name
Assessor signature
Date
Feedback
Student signature
Date
A copy of this page must be supplied to the office and kept in the student’s file with the evidence.
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Knowledge questions are designed to help you demonstrate the knowledge which you have acquired during
the learning phase of this unit. Ensure that you:
review the advice to students regarding answering knowledge questions in the Hospitality Works Student
User Guide
comply with the due date for assessment which your assessor will provide adhere with
your RTO’s submission guidelines
answer all questions completely and correctly
submit work which is original and, where necessary, properly referenced submit a
completed cover sheet with your work
avoid sharing your answers with other students.
i Assessment information
Information about how you should complete this assessment can be found in Appendix A of the
Hospitality Works Student User Guide. Refer to the appendix for information on: where
this task should be completed
the maximum time allowed for completing this assessment task whether or
not this task is open-book.
Note: You must complete and submit an assessment cover sheet with your work. A template is provided
in Appendix B of the Student User Guide. However, if your RTO has provided you with
an assessment cover sheet, please ensure that you use that.
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Questions
Provide answers to all of the questions below.
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Payroll / wages report
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Payment processors' monthly bills to their merchant
Merchant statement
clients, which can be printed out or submitted
electronically
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Purchasing budget
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Sales budget
Wages budget
3. Explain each of the terms in the table that are factors to consider in preparing
financial and statistical reports for a business.
Cash flow
Expenditure
Staff costs
the sum that you get paid by clients for the products or
Income
services that you have supplied them.
Commercial account
activity
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A sum given to a worker according on their sales
Commission earnings
volume.
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5. List two techniques a business can use for maximising budget performance.
Apply a model budget.
Make advantage of a budgeting tool.
7. Document the reporting that is completed for the following cycles/periods and
write down a procedure for each that is relevant to a hospitality business.
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booking platform where you
promote your property and your
marketing and sales campaigns
8. For two different accounting software programs of your choice, write down at
least one function and one feature of each and how these can help in
monitoring budgets.
The two distinct accounting software applications that are functional and
future-oriented are:
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9. What information does an annual financial report contain and how should it be presented?
The pay explanation, which displays incomes, expenses, benefits, and misfortunes, is one
of the annual financial reports' contents. It illustrates the practical consequences of an
organization.➢ The accounting report provides information on an organization's capital
and liquidity by displaying its assets, liabilities, and value as of the disclosure date.➢ The
income statement, which displays the inflows and outflows of funds throughout the
reporting period ➢ The declaration of retained profit, which displays any fluctuations in
value, such as stock offers, profit installments, and changes resulting from good or bad
luck. All of the significant record paperwork and reports that comprise an association's
financial records are included in its annual monetary report. This often includes
information from a single fiscal year, allowing the report to be presented toward the end of
the fiscal year in order to satisfy legal requirements for specific details. Additionally, a
company must maintain financial records that attest to its financial activities and fulfill any
obligations it may have to disclose financial information to investors or senior
management. An organization may also choose to produce a financial report more
frequently, say once every quarter, in order to collect financial data more consistently and
do financial analysis, such as tracking pay and benefits or calamities.
10. Discuss how a business will show the findings of the projected budget versus
the actual budget and how this might be presented.
Real correlation is essential for small businesses because it enables them to adjust their
financial plans going forward based on the data they receive from month-to-month reports.
Independent business owners are able to identify areas in which their budget needs to be
improved and areas where it is currently enough. Projected costs are those that are anticipated
based on transactions and expenses from previous periods. Conversely, the aggregates that were
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actually invested throughout the energy phase take care of the legitimate uses. At the end of
that period, organizations will compare actual consumption with projected costs to determine
whether they overspent.
Student’s name:
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Question 7
Question 8
Question 9
Question 10
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Task outcome: Satisfactory Not satisfactory
Assessor signature:
Assessor name:
Date:
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Assessment Task 2 Cover Sheet
Student declaration
To be filled out and submitted with assessment responses
I declare that this task is all my own work and I have not cheated or plagiarised the work or
colluded with any other student(s).
I understand that if I am found to have plagiarised, cheated or colluded, action will be taken against
me according to the process explained to me.
I have correctly referenced all resources and reference texts throughout these assessment tasks.
Student name
Student ID number
Student signature
Date
Assessor declaration
I hereby certify that this student has been assessed by me and that the assessment has been carried out
according to the required assessment procedures.
Assessor name
Assessor signature
Date
Feedback
Student signature
Date
A copy of this page must be supplied to the office and kept in the student’s file with the evidence.
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Information for students
You are required to manage finances within a budget for a case study organisation and then report on your
findings.
You will need access to:
your learning resources and other information for reference
software such as an accounting program or Microsoft Excel or similar your
Café Quarterly Budget
your Budget Report Template.
i Assessment information
Information about how you should complete this assessment can be found in Appendix A of the
Hospitality Works Student User Guide. Refer to the appendix for information on: where
this task should be completed
how your assessment should be submitted.
Note: You must complete and submit an assessment cover sheet with your work. A template is provided
in Appendix B of the Student User Guide. However, if your RTO has provided you with an assessment
cover sheet, please ensure that you use that.
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Activities
Complete the following activities.
Successful completion of this unit requires that you complete the range of tasks listed
above. It is important that you provide evidence that you have successfully completed
each task.
Below is a guide to the skills and knowledge you must demonstrate when you are
completing each activity step. We have provided several documents to assist you and you
will find these in the student resources.
You will need access to:
your learning resources and other information for reference
software such as an accounting program or Microsoft Excel or similar your
Café Quarterly Budget
your Budget Report Template. space
for a meeting.
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advising colleagues of budget status in relation to targets.
Identifying and evaluating options for improved budget performance including:
Assessing existing costs and resources and proactively identifying areas for improvement
including:
discussing desired budget outcomes with colleagues.
undertaking research to investigate new approaches to budget management. defining and
communicating the benefits and disadvantages of new approaches.
factoring in the impacts on customer service levels and on colleagues when developing new
approaches.
presenting clear and logical recommendations for budget management. Completing
financial reports relating to the budget including:
completing the required financial and statistical reports according to required timelines.
preparing and presenting clear and concise information to enable informed decision making.
You are the café manager of a popular café within the Blue Healer Hotel and Spa.
The owner has provided you with the budget for the next quarter and it is part of your
responsibility to allocate resources and manage the finances within the budget.
The budget has been increased in month three as this is a popular month where lots of
visitors stay at the Blue Healer and neighbouring guest houses as there is a music festival
on. As such, additional wait staff will be hired on a casual basis and less private catering
jobs will be booked in as the café will be at its peak.
Additional information:
The business uses local suppliers but due to a recent drought the cost of meat with the usual
supplier, Fresh Farms, went up by 7% last month.
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The café serves breakfast, light meals, light dinners and sharing plates, smoothies, coffee,
pastries and is a local favourite for its homemade iced tea.
Due to the clientele of the hotel and health spa, and the area within which the Blue Healer is
located, there have been a number of requests for more vegetarian and vegan options.
Apart from you and the owner (you also cook and prepare food) there is full-time chef
named Navneet, two part-time kitchen porters and casual wait staff employed.
There has been a pattern of food wastage in the past two months with too much fruit
purchased that spoiled before it could be used as the iced tea became so
popular that not as many smoothies were made and sold.
The food budget has blown out over the past three months, but the owner can’t increase it
as the profit from the café is being invested into building and landscaping works to create
an outside undercover area that will double the capacity of the café.
The business uses Wave Accounting free online software for recording income and
expenditure but makes use of Excel spreadsheets for budgeting and planning purposes.
11. Review past information and future budget and plan fund allocation.
12. Have a meeting with the owner to discuss the budget and fund allocation.
Now that you have reviewed all the information, have a meeting with the manager
(your assessor) at the date and time advised to discuss any concerns, priorities and changes
you would like to make before you allocate the funds. Review the new suppliers you have
sourced with your assessor.
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During the meeting, you will need to demonstrate effective communication skills including:
speaking clearly and concisely
using non-verbal communication to assist with understanding asking
questions to identify required information
responding to questions as required.
Using the Café Quarterly Budget template – Fund allocation page, allocate the funds for the
quarter to the relevant areas and what you will purchase from existing or new suppliers.
Make notes in the relevant column to support your choice and rationale. Add or delete rows
as necessary and apply cell formatting and the use of formula functions as necessary.
Submit to your assessor.
Briefly meet with Navneet (your assessor) to discuss the resource allocations and the
planning for the next quarter in relation to fresh produce, reduction of wastage and recipe
variation.
Make sure that you discuss the importance of sticking to the budgeted allocations and
discuss ways that food wastage can be avoided to ensure the budget is met.
During the meeting, you will need to demonstrate effective communication skills including:
speaking clearly and concisely
using non-verbal communication to assist with understanding asking
questions to identify required information
responding to questions as required.
It is the end of month 1. You have kept to the budget and the funds have been allocated as you
planned for.
Using relevant software (such as an accounting program or Microsoft Excel or similar)
and the exact figures from your fund allocation document, enter the
expenses you have incurred over the first month exactly as they are represented in your fund
allocation page of your spreadsheet.
Print a report of the entries or take a screenshot and submit to your assessor.
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16. Monitor activities – month 2.
It is the end of month 2. You have kept to the overall budget, but funds have had to be
rearranged in the following ways:
There was an accident when unloading the vegetable crate one week and all the produce
was spoiled. You had to purchase a second crate which pushed your amount spent with the
vegetable supplier up by 10%.
To accommodate for the overspend, you reduced the amount spent on cakes and pastries by
that same amount and baked inhouse.
Enter the expenditure figures into the software you are using as outlined in your fund
allocation document but consider the information above and work out the variances.
Print a report of the entries or take a screenshot and submit to your assessor.
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18. Develop an actual budget from the past three months.
Develop an actual budget using the past information and your financial records you
complied and submitted in the previous activity steps. Make a new page in the Café
Quarterly Budget spreadsheet and name it ‘Actual Budget’.
Assume the following information:
Variances of 10% are not considered unusual. The
actual income is as follows:
Income
Compile a report to the owner about what has occurred over the past three months. You will
also need to conduct some research when writing this report as outlined below. Submit in the
timeframe as provided to you by your assessor.
Include the following in your report:
The status of the budget and the variations in relation to what was projected – use
percentages and figures to discuss a detailed account of what has occurred in the overall
actual budget in relation to projections.
Lessons learned from what has occurred in the past quarter and ideas for how you can
prevent similar situations in the future by improvements that can be made.
Undertake research to investigate new or different approaches to budget management and
then outline the benefits and advantages of different approaches you could take and how
these approaches may impact on customer service levels or staff.
Provide recommendations for budget management for the next quarter and provide estimates for this
period.
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Make sure you use correct budget terminology, and your report is neatly presented, clear and
concise with the use of statistical representations.
Use the Budget report template to guide your work.
Submit to your assessor. Your assessor will provide you timelines for completing this task
which you must adhere to, and you will be assessed on this.
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Assessment Task 2: Checklist
Student’s name:
Completed
successfully?
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using non-verbal communication to assist
with understanding
asking questions to identify required
information
responding to questions as required
using active listening techniques to confirm
understanding.
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Assessor signature:
Assessor name:
Date:
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Final results record
Student name:
Assessor name:
Date:
Qualification name:
Result
Satisfactor
Task Type y Unsatisfactory Did not submit
Feedback
I hereby certify that this student has been assessed by me and that the assessment has been carried out
according to the required assessment procedures.
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