Course Title: Carry out business activity and instalment activity statement tasks

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2013

Course Code: ACCT5305C

Course Title: Carry out business activity and instalment activity statement tasks

School: 650T TAFE Business

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4324 - Certificate IV in Accounting

Course Contact : Claude Marasco

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 1651

Course Contact Email:claudio.marasco@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

The other teachers for this cluster in semester 1, 2013 are:

1. Bruce Phillips

bruce.phillips@rmit.edu.au


2. Linda Boyce

linda.boyce@rmit.edu.au

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to record and prepare payroll documentation, deal with enquiries in regard to payroll, and process payroll from provided data in manual or computerised payroll systems. This unit has application to a variety of financial services sectors. It is applicable to individuals working within enterprises and job roles subject to licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements, including various aspects of taxation law (including, but not limited to, the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 and the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997), other relevant legislation and Goods and Services Tax (GST) rulings. The Tax Practitioner’s Board (TPB) administers specific educational and experience requirements for registration of BAS agents and sets specific assessment requirements that must be met. The varying Commonwealth, State or Territory requirements should be confirmed with the relevant body.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

FNSBKG404A Carry out business activity and instalment activity statement tasks

Element:

1. Identify individual compliance and other requirements

2. Recognise and apply GST implications and code transactions

3. Report on payroll activities

4. Report on other amounts withheld, Pay As You Go (PAYG) instalments and taxes

5. Complete and reconcile the Activity Statement

6. Lodge Activity Statement

Performance Criteria:

1.1. Legislative and regulatory requirements and organisational and industry requirements relating to Activity Statements are researched, documented and expert advice is sought to clarify issues where applicable.
1.2. Requirements for information, advice or services outside the individual's scope of operation are identified and additional information, advice or services are accessed, and networks are established and used where necessary
1.3. Lodgement schedule requirements are identified and documented
1.4. Entity's cash flow and payment options are assessed and discussed with management to ensure sufficient funds
2.1. GST principles are identified, applied and recorded
2.2. Purchases and/or payments are identified, coded as per GST classifications and split into capital and non-capital as appropriate
2.3. Sales and/or receipts are identified and coded as per GST classifications
2.4. Accounting data is processed to comply with tax reporting requirements
3.1. Total salaries, wages and other payments for the accounting period are identified and reconciled
3.2. Amounts withheld from salaries, wages and other payments for the accounting period are identified and reconciled in conjunction with payroll department if applicable
4.1. Amounts withheld from other payments for the accounting period are identified and reconciled in conjunction with other departments if applicable
4.2. PAYG instalment amount is verified or, where applicable, calculated or, where applicable, calculated for other taxes
5.1. Activity Statement reports are generated where required, checked and validated with any errors identified and correctional bookkeeping entries made
5.2. Adjustments for previous quarters, months or year-end are made where necessary
5.3. BAS and/or IAS return is completed in accordance with up-to-date statutory, legislative, regulatory and organisational schedule
5.4. Figures completed on the BAS/IAS form are reconciled to journal entries, profit and loss statement, GST and other control accounts
6.1. Activity Statement is checked and signed off by an appropriate person as identified by statutory, legislative and regulatory requirements
6.2. Activity Statement is dispatched in accordance with statutory, legislative and regulatory requirements
6.3. Payment/refund is processed and recorded
 


Learning Outcomes



Details of Learning Activities

In this clustered/co-delivered, holistic course comprising three units and using the textbooks and other materials, students will be progressively introduced to establishing and maintaing a payroll system, both manual and electronic together with taxation specifically in regard to general business taxation requirements and indirect taxation such as IAS and BAS, incorporating GST. With respect to the full-time students, in-class activities will account for some of the nominal hours allocated to this course and will include a range of self-paced and collaborative learning activities such as class discussion, completion and review of set exercises and work, a test and two comprehensive assignments in which parts involve a simulated/real workplace environment.

The hours of self-directed/self-paced learning by students will be taken up with reading, research, set work on exercises and the completion of the two assignments outside scheduled class time. Please note that the format of the classes will in total, three hours per week. The learning activities described above will be covered in these classes and we expect you to participate and contribute in all scheduled learning activities. This course will not be offered part-time until semester 2, 2013.
 


Teaching Schedule

The nominal hours associated with this are a guide only and represent the total teaching time and student effort required to successfully complete the course. This may include not only scheduled classes but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities. The teaching schedule is representative of full-time students.

Please note that this course is clustered/co-delivered holistically as a group of three courses those being, ACCT 5305C - Carry out business activity and instalment activity statements tasks, ACCT 5308C - Process business tax requirements and ACCT 5309C - Establish and maintain a payroll system. As a result, other than the elements and the critical aspects specific to this course, the three course guides will depict the same information.

 

Week Week Commencing Topics Assessment Self-Learning
1 11/2/2013  Course Induction
• Course delivery and assessment details
• Course support documents
• Online learning environment including Blackboard
• Grading
• Plagiarism
• Appeals/Extensions
• Feedback/Privacy
• Submission requirements/Resubmission policy
• Where to get support
• Student responsibilities
• Use of Turnitin
Pre-Training Review (if applicable)
• Includes skills analysis and Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfers
Commence topics
• MYOB text – “Rates and Figures”
• Units 1, 2, 9 & 10 from MYOB text
Assignment 1 will be discussed in class and made available on Learning Hub.
Due and submitted in class in week 6.
You will receive the feedback in week 9
 
Payroll notes, read pages 470-481
Complete exercises 7.6-7.9
 
2 18/2/2013 Discuss list of 10 websites and materials required for Assignment 1
Complete Unit 3 from MYOB text
PBTR Text – chapter 1, read pages 12-18
 
  • Complete review questions (RQ) 1, 4, 11-13
COBA Text – chapter 1, read pages 12-58 Complete Self-test exercises (STE) 3-5, 7 from PBTR text
Complete RQ 3 & STE 1 from COBA text
3 25/2/2013 Payroll notes, read pages 481-513
Complete exercises 7.10-7.21
Practise questions for Assignment 1 to discuss - PBTR
PBTR Text – chapter 2, read pages 49-62
Complete STE 20 from PBTR text
Continue with COBA Text – chapter 1, read pages 12-58
  Complete exercises 7.22-7.24 from Payroll notes
Complete Unit 4 from MYOB text
 
4 4/3/2013 Complete practise payroll exercise 7.2 (follow payroll theory notes)
COBA Text – chapter 2, read pages 70-41
• Complete RQ 27, 45
PBTR Text – chapter 3, read pages 98-103 & 108
  Complete payroll practise exercises 7.3-7.4
Complete exercises WP01 & SS04

 

5 11/3/2013 Continue with COBA Text – chapter 2, read pages 70-41
Continue with PBTR Text – chapter 3, read pages 98-103 & 108
• Complete case study (CS) 24
  Complete exercises SS07 & SS08
Complete STE from COBA text 7, 8, 11-12
Continue Practise Questions for Assignment 1
Complete Unit 5 from MYOB text
6 18/3/2013 Continue with COBA Text – chapter 2, read pages 70-41
PBTR Text – chapter 4, 154-160, 162-165
 
Assignment 1 to be submitted in class Complete payroll practise exercises 7.5-7.6
Complete STE from COBA text 13, 15, 16 & 24
7.1 25/3/2013 COBA Text – chapter 3, read pages 181-245
Complete RQ from COBA text 7, 11 & 13
Continue with PBTR Text – chapter 4, 154-160, 162-165
  Complete Unit 6 from MYOB text
Complete RQ from COBA text 16, 17 & 35
Complete STE from COBA text 1-4
 
7.2 1/4/2013 COBA Text – chapter 3, read pages 181-245
Complete RQ from COBA text 7, 11 & 13
PBTR Text – chapter 5, read pages 178-181, 195-197
  Complete RQ from COBA text 16, 17 & 35
Complete STE from COBA text 1-4
Complete payroll practise exercises 7.7-7.8
8 8/4/2013 Continue with COBA Text – chapter 3, read pages 181-245   Complete STE from COBA text 9-10
 
9 15/4/2013 Continue with COBA Text – chapter 3, read pages 181-245
PBTR Text – chapter 6, read pages 204-217
 
Assignment 2 will be discussed in class and made available on Learning Hub.
Due and submitted in class in week 13.
You will receive the feedback in week 15
Complete Unit 7 from MYOB text
 
10 22/4/2013 Continue with COBA Text – chapter 3, read pages 181-245
PBTR Text – chapter 7, read pages 228-238, 244-258
  Complete STE from COBA text 11-17
Complete payroll practise exercises 7.9-7.10
11 29/4/2013 Continue with COBA Text – chapter 3, read pages 181-245
PBTR Text – chapter 8, read pages 264-270, 275
  Continue with week 11 activities
 
12 6/5/2013 Practise questions for Assignment 2 to discuss – COBA (IAS & BAS)
Continue with COBA Text – chapter3, read pages 181-245
  Continue Practise Questions for Assignment 2
 
13 13/5/2013 Complete payroll practise exercises 7.11-7.12 Assignment 2 to be submitted in class Continue Practise Questions for Assignment 2
 
14 20/5/2013 Revision for test 1
Complete payroll practise exercises 7.13-7.14
  Continue Practise Questions for Assignment 2
 
15 27/5/2013 Test 1 – 90 minutes test (closed book)
• Tax Tables will be supplied
 
Test 1 in class
You will receive the feedback in week 16
 
16 3/6/2013 Resits and re-assessments Special consideration/Finalisation of results/Moderation
 
 


Please note:
1. The mid-semester break is scheduled between 28/3/2013 and 3/4/2013.
2. The teaching schedule is subject to change at the teacher’s discretion. Notification of changes can be made directly in class by the teacher, emailed to each student or via an announcement placed on the Blackboard.
 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

1. A step by step approach to Esatblish and Maintain a Payroll System, MYOB AccountRight Plus v19. Marion Brown, Software Publications.

9781921885532

2. Process Business Txx Requirements, Charles and Deaner, 10th Edition. Learnnowbiz.

9781921579356

3. Carry out Business Activity and Instalment Activity Statement Tasks, 4th Edition, Charles and Deaner. Learnnowbiz.

9781921579561


References


Other Resources

Other materials will be placed on the Blackboard and will be used when directed so by your teacher.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including technical requirements documentation, homework, assignments, group and/or individual projects, in class exercises, written and practical tests, problem solving exercises, presentations, direct observation of actual and simulated work practice, presentation of a portfolio of evidence which may comprise documents, and/or photographs and/or video and audio files, review of products produced through work-based or course activities.

Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met. Students will be provided with feedback throughout the course to check their progress.

 


Assessment Tasks

Students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of competency to be deemed competent and will be required to demonstrate all of the indicators which are shown in the Unit Mapping Document, the Graded Assessment Matrix for each assessment and the Graded Assessment Grading Sheet.
These indicators are detailed further in this document.

The following range of assessment methods will be used to assess practical skills and knowledge:

1. evaluating an integrated activity which combines the elements of the competency for the course – via the two assignments and the test;
2. verbal or written questioning on underpinning knowledge and skills – via the two assignments and the test;
3. setting and reviewing workplace projects and business simulations – via the two assignments and the test;
4. evaluating samples of work - via the two assignments and the test; and
5. accessing and validating third party reports - via the two assignments.

Crtical aspects of Assessments:

Evidence of the following is also essential:

• interpret and comply with relevant provisions in the following Acts and their associated regulations:
• Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA 2009)
• Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986
• Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
• Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act 1992
• A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999
• Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
• Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
• Taxation Administration Act 1953
• Privacy Act 1988
• interpret and comply with relevant ATO and TPB requirements, including TPB registration requirements where applicable
• apply GST terminology and appropriate application to financial transactions
• meet taxation requirements for business purposes and taxation parameters related to a range of business types
• use relevant accounting terminology when maintaining accounting records for a variety of business types for taxation purposes
• accurately complete all sections of both BAS and IAS for multiple entity types
• lodge statements within the allocated timeframe.
 

Assessment Tasks:

Assessment will be undertaken in a classroom via one (1) test and two (2) assignments.

You are required to complete the 3 assessment tasks which you must successfully complete to be deemed competent in this course. The 3 assessment tasks are as follow:

1. Assignment 1

The assignment will be structured by incorporating short answers, multiple choice questions, practical calculations and completion of business forms specific to Payroll and Taxation. As this assignment is a competency based assessment then a competent (CA) grade must be achieved for this assessment. This assignment will be made available in week 1 and is due for submission in week 6.

2. Assignment 2

The assignment will be structured by incorporating a work-place scenario which involves implementing an electronic payroll system followed by short answer questions. The student will then manuallly prepare a BAS and IAS. As this assignment is a competency based assessment then a competent (CA) grade must be achieved for this assessment. This assignment will be made available in week 9 and is due for submission in week 13.

3. Test 1

The test incorporates a manual payroll involving manual calculations. It will be closed-book to be conducted in week 15 with a 90 minute duration. Students will be provided with the tax rates. As this tst is a competency based assessment then a competent (CA) grade must be achieved for this assessment.
Your teacher will discuss the assessment matrix for each assessment with the class at the beginning of the semester and prior to the assessment taking place. Each student will also receive this document completed by the teacher a the feedback with regard to performance in each assessment.


 


Assessment Matrix

To be deemed competent students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks. Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.

All competency based assessments for this course must be completed to achieve CA. Each assessment task will also carry a numerical weighting to be used for grading purposes. The grade applied to this weighting will only be awarded if a CA has been achieved in all compulsory assessment tasks.

If a student has been marked NYC (Not Yet Competent) in any of the assessment tasks, the weighting will carry no value until the student has obtained CA. If a CA is achieved on re-assessment then only a competent – enterprise will be granted for that assessment.

Reassessments will only be granted to students who were either unsuccessful in the first attempt or have an approved special consideration application.

To be deemed competent in this unit the participant will be required to demonstrate all indicators which are shown in the Marking Guide/Assessment Matrix for each assessment and the Graded Assessment Grading Sheet. The indicators described above are detailed further in this document together with the three assessments.

Marking Guide and Assessment Matrix (competency) for each assessment:

Vocational Education and Training (VET) is based on current industry needs and the focus on preparing you for the workplace. Because VET courses are informed by practical application of knowledge and skills, they are based on a system known as ‘competency based training’ (CBT). So when you are assessed in VET it is about whether you are competent to do the job, as well as having a firm grasp on the knowledge and skills required to do that job, as opposed to traditional curriculum based education settings that are often based on knowledge retention. The marking guides or assessment matrix for each assessment together with the assessment will be discussed in class by your teacher at the beginning of the semester and prior to the assessment taking place. Each student will also receive this document completed by the teacher a the feedback with regard to performance in each assessment. Feedback is incorporated in the assessment matrix which each student will be given before each assessment. This will be completed by the teacher who will then go over this document and the feedback with each student individually. The assessment matrix documents are attached to each assessment.

Marking Guide (Grading)

After achieving competency, we then grade your performance in the unit. This gives you the opportunity to have the level of your performance formally recognized against industry standards and employability skills. The grading is according to the following criteria:

1. LEVEL OF INDEPENDENCE, INITIATIVE, ENTERPRISE AND PERFORMANCE OF WORK TASK

We are looking for a high level of ability to complete all tasks independently as per the specifications as well as demonstrating a high level of initiative in your study and work.

2. DEMONSTRATED BREADTH OF UNDERPINNING KNOWLEDGE AND A WILLINGNESS TO CONTINUE LEARNING

We are looking for depth of understanding of the key concepts and knowledge required in both Payroll and Taxation. You should be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of all applicable Payroll and Taxation procedures in all the assessment tasks.

3. TECHNIQUES & PROCESSES, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS AND PROBLEM SOLVING

We are looking for appropriate use of technology to assist in presenting all tasks clearly and suitable for the intended audience. You also need to show an understanding of the kinds of problems that can arise in Payroll and Taxation procedures and how these might be addressed.

4. WORK ORGANISATION, PLANNING AND SELF MANAGEMENT

We expect to see all students working effectively and efficiently. We also expect timely completion and submission of all required assessment tasks.

5. COMMUNICATION, PEOPLE NETWORKING, LANGUAGE AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS AND TEAMWORK

We expect to see a contribution by all students towards their classmates and Teacher via interaction in the classroom. Your tasks should demonstrate a very good understanding of strategies for a collaborative approach to your work as a group within the classroom involving both students and Teacher.

Final Grades Table:

 

CHD Competent with High Distinction
 
CDI Competent with Distinction
 
CC Competent with Credit
 
CAG Competency Achieved – Graded
 
NYC Not Yet Competent
 
DNS Did Not Submit for assessment
 

Further information regarding the application of the grading criteria will be provided by your teacher.
 

Other Information

Assessment tasks will all be submitted to your teacher in class and the case study must include a signed cover sheet.

You should:

• Ensure that you submit assessments on or before the due date. If your performance in the assessment is affected by unexpected circumstances, you should consider applying for Special Consideration. Information on the process and application forms is available at http://rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ls0ydfokry9rz website.
• Always retain a copy of your assessment tasks. (hard copy and soft copy)
• When you submit work for assessment at RMIT University you need to use a cover sheet that includes a declaration and statement of authorship. You must complete, sign and submit a cover sheet with all work you submit for assessment, whether individual or group work. On the cover sheet you declare that the work you are presenting for assessment is your own work. An assignment cover sheet for submission of work for assessment is available from the Student forms website.
• Each page of your assessment should include footer with your name, student number, the title of the assessment, unit code and title and page numbers. For example, Julie Macpherson, 324567, Task 2, OHS2345C Ensure safe workplace, Page 1 of 10.

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