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 Program title Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
Module title Accounting Information System
Module code BAC 3733

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

Assignment – (3000 words | 40%) (Excludes references, attachments, graphs, images, tables
and addendums)

ASSIGNMNET TITLE: Evaluation of the Accounting Information System in Business Organization

ASSIGNMENT DEADLINE: As Communicated on the LMS

ASSIGNMNET DESCRIPTION: Individual Assignment

Task – Critically evaluate the role of accounting information system in business

organizations in archiving organizational goals and governance.

 Your task is writing a report that critically analyses the adoption of cloud-
based Accounting Information System (AIS) in Business organisations
and discuss challenges and benefits of cloud-based environment.
 You are required to conduct a literature review and analysis using
academic journal articles.

To accomplish your assignment, you will need to:

 Choose any book or journal article that related to the question. You can choose any topic in Sri
Lankan issues or abroad. While you are reading, sometime you will find that the opinion or
suggestion that you are agree with that. So you can state your idea or opinion. opinion and
ideas must be based or supported by references.
 You might need to read many references and evaluate them before selecting which ones will be
involved in your writing.
 Thus, you will need to incorporate support from several sources of different views. This type of
assignment requires you to examine a variety of sources and identify their relationship to your
topic.
 Arrange multiple sources per point to increase your credibility.
  Follow the following format:

- The introduction (usually one paragraph)

 Contains a one-sentence statement that sums up the focus of your topic or the introduction
about the article.
 Sometimes also provides pertinent background about the general topic from which the texts are
drawn.

- The body
 This should be organized by any point or content that you found. Please do not mix 2 or more
point in the one paragraph. Separate it in to different paragraph. In order to make your
explanation become interesting, you need another extra information that you can get from the
library or another sources.

Be sure that each paragraph:

1. begins with a sentence or phrase that informs readers of the topic of the paragraph (a topic
sentences);
2. includes information from more than one source; and clearly indicates which material comes
from which source using in-text citations to avoid plagiarism.
4. shows the similarities or differences between the different sources in ways that make the
paper as informative as possible;

 Titles and subtitles can be used throughout the essay to emphasis different issues

- Conclusion.
 Remind readers of the most significant themes you have found and the ways they connect to
the overall topic. You may also want to suggest further research or comment on things that it
was not possible for you to discuss in the paper.
ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES:

1) Your essay must be supported with 5 – 10 references, and your references must include both
books, journal articles and research. Majority of the references must be recent (5 years)
2) You must complete your assignment using Microsoft word and Microsoft excel, if needed.
3) Marks will be deducted from the final assignment mark which is under the word limit and for
grammar, spelling errors and reference errors.
4) Attach your sources, if articles and cover page of a book, and any planner, mapping and notes
that you might have used during doing your assignment.
5) A hard copy spiral bound document must be submitted and the softcopy of the assignment
should be uploaded to or before the deadline. Students must upload the softcopy before the
hardcopy submission. The submission of hardcopy and uploading of softcopy must take place
on or before midnight 11.59 pm on the submission day.
 6) Uploaded softcopy should be named as BBA-(subject number) (followed by the Student ID
E.g. for Introduction to International Business Assignment | BBA - 2453 - 2000000
7) Students are expected to keep a backup of all the assignments. BIMT and LUC reserve all the
right to recall the soft copy of any assignment at any time during the course.
8) Please note that plagiarism is treated as a serious offence and therefore the work you produce
must be individual and original although may work in groups in some instances (Please refer
to Student Handbook on Plagiarism & Cheating).
9) All sources of information must be referenced using “Harvard referencing” where a
reference listing should be included at the end of the assignment.
10) Please note that the submission date given for this assignment is the final date that you can
upload the assignment. No late submissions are allowed by the system. (Please refer to the
Student Handbook on Assessments - Late Submissions).
11) Please refer to Student Handbook on Assignments – Re-submission, mitigating circumstances
procedure.
12)Please include the assignment coversheet in your answer.

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NAME OF STUDENT: Module: Program: BA TESL
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INSTRUCTIONS
The student’s assignment will be evaluated according to the following criteria

Classification Content Knowledge and Evidence of Reading Referencing Presentation Grammar and Spelling Full
Understanding and Bibliography Marks
Allocated Marks 40 36 12 6 6 100
Excellent description and Excellent Knowledge and depth of Evidence of reading a Excellent referencing and Excellent presentation, logically structured,
discussion of main issues understanding of principles and wide range of appropriate bibliography (6) using correct grammar and spelling (6)
Outstanding and material with evidence concepts (34-36) supplementary sources (12)
Work of critical evaluation (37-40)
Detailed description of (33-36) Knowledge and depth of Evidence of reading Accurate referencing and Good presentation logically structured,
main issues and material understanding of principles Appropriate supplementary bibliography (5) using correct grammar and spelling (5)
Excellent Work with evidence of evaluation and concepts (31-33) sources (10)
Description of main issues Knowledge and sound Evidence of directed Appropriate referencing Orderly presentation,
and material with occasional understanding of the key reading and some and competently structured and acceptable
Good Quality evidence of discussion (29-32) principles and concepts (28-30) supplementary sources (8) Bibliography (4) grammar and spelling (4)
Acceptable Description of main issues Basic knowledge of the key principles Evidence of directed Adequate referencing and Adequate presentation and structure,
and material only (25-28) and concepts only reading (6) bibliography (3) acceptable gram (3)
(25-27)
Limited description of main issues Adequate knowledge of key Limited evidence of Limited referencing and Weak presentation and structure,
Adequate Work and material only principles and concepts only reading (4) Bibliography (2) acceptable grammar and spelling (2)
(21-24) (22-24)
Fail Omission of some relevant Limited and or inconsistent Evidence of minimal reading Inadequate referencing and Poor presentation, structure, grammar and
( Limited Work) material knowledge and understanding of key only (2) bibliography (1) (1)
(17-20) principles and concepts (19-21)

Fail Insufficient and largely Little or no evidence of Little or no evidence of Little or no Unacceptable
(Unacceptable irrelevant material knowledge and understanding of the reading (0) referencing and presentation, grammar (0)
(0-16) key principles and concepts (0-18) bibliography (0)
Work)
Marks obtain

Overall Comment: