Skills and Learning Statement
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
Skills and Learning Statement
for
Topic 8: An analysis and evaluation of the business and financial performance of an organization over a three years period
Being a Research and Analysis Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of:
BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting Oxford Brookes University
By:
Name: Tao De
ACCA Registration Number: 2171332
Submission Date: 24th May 2012
Words Count: 1881
Table of Contents
Lessons Learned From Meetings With Project Mentor 3
Extent to Which Research Questions Have Been Answered 5
Demonstration of Interpersonal and Communication Skills During Project Work 7
Benefits Of Undertaking The RAP In Accountancy Studies and/or Current Employment Role 8
Copy of Presentation Slides 9
Lessons Learned From Meetings With Project Mentor
During the project, I meet with my project mentor, Sonny Chan, for three times. In the three meetings with him, he gave me general guidance over my project progress, pointed out problems that I had made and took enquiries from me.
First Meeting
In the first meeting, I came up with an idea of writing topic 8, and my mentor supported my idea. He gave me suggestions that potential problems that I may come up with, e.g. ratio explanation; and suggest me to review F7 (Financial Reporting) first to quickly pick up knowledge that I might forgotten, e.g. ratio analysis.
After deciding the topic, I gave my mentor a list of companies that I want to analyze. The companies I selected are mainly operating in real estate industry, e.g. Frasers Centrepoint Trust, CapitaLand Commercial Trust and Suntec Real Estate Trust. Mr. Chan suggested that I need to choose a company that can make comparison, which means they have to have same year ending, similar operating area and both in form of trust. Only in this way, the ratios that have been calculated are
Skills and Learning Statement
for
Topic 8: An analysis and evaluation of the business and financial performance of an organization over a three years period
Being a Research and Analysis Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of:
BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting Oxford Brookes University
By:
Name: Tao De
ACCA Registration Number: 2171332
Submission Date: 24th May 2012
Words Count: 1881
Table of Contents
Lessons Learned From Meetings With Project Mentor 3
Extent to Which Research Questions Have Been Answered 5
Demonstration of Interpersonal and Communication Skills During Project Work 7
Benefits Of Undertaking The RAP In Accountancy Studies and/or Current Employment Role 8
Copy of Presentation Slides 9
Lessons Learned From Meetings With Project Mentor
During the project, I meet with my project mentor, Sonny Chan, for three times. In the three meetings with him, he gave me general guidance over my project progress, pointed out problems that I had made and took enquiries from me.
First Meeting
In the first meeting, I came up with an idea of writing topic 8, and my mentor supported my idea. He gave me suggestions that potential problems that I may come up with, e.g. ratio explanation; and suggest me to review F7 (Financial Reporting) first to quickly pick up knowledge that I might forgotten, e.g. ratio analysis.
After deciding the topic, I gave my mentor a list of companies that I want to analyze. The companies I selected are mainly operating in real estate industry, e.g. Frasers Centrepoint Trust, CapitaLand Commercial Trust and Suntec Real Estate Trust. Mr. Chan suggested that I need to choose a company that can make comparison, which means they have to have same year ending, similar operating area and both in form of trust. Only in this way, the ratios that have been calculated are