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HA 3011 Advanced Financial AccountingAssessment item 2 — AssignmentDue date: 11.00pm Friday Week 10Weighting: 20%Assessment Task Part A (10 Marks)In the excel file “Find Your Company” you will find the listed company you have been givenfor this course. This file will be made available on Friday of Week 4. Complete this assignmentfor the company you have been given. Please be careful to use the listed company you havebeen given. Your assignment will not be marked if you use a different company to the one youhave been given; and you will be asked to resubmit your assignment using the right company.Go to the website of your company, by clicking on the URL next to your company in the listof companies in the file “Your Company”. Then go to the Investor Relations section of thewebsite. This section may be called, “Investors”, “Shareholder Information” or similar name.In this section, go to your firm’s annual reports and save to your computer your firm’s latestannual report. For example, these may be dated 30 June 2015 or 31 March 2016. Do not useyour firm’s interim financial statements or their concise financial statements. You are need todo the following tasks:Please read the relevant footnotes of your firm’s financial statements carefully and includeinformation from these footnotes in your answer.Within your firm’s latest annual report(i) From your firm’s annual report find out the asset/s that your firm has tested forimpairment.(ii) How did your firm conduct the impairment testing?(iii)Has your firm recorded any impairment expenditures during the period?(iv)Identify the key estimates and assumptions used by your firm in conducting theimpairment testing.(v) Do you find any sort of subjectivity involved in the impairment testing process? Howcan this subjectivity influence the outcome of the impairment testing?(vi)What do you find interesting, confusing, surprising or difficult to understand about theimpairment testing?(vii) What new insights, if any, have you gained about how companies conductimpairment testing?(viii) Based on your assignment, comment on the “fair value measurement”.For your understanding of the impairment testing process, you may download and read thefollowing articles using ProQuest:
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