Appendix Queries

HELP!!! are abbreviation lists allowed in the RR?

Under topic 8, you should provide extracts of statement of financial position and statement of comprehensive income along with ratios (with formula) in appendix. Kindly don’t provide entire Financial Statements in appendix as you can only provide extracts in appendix.

Extract from Information Pack

“If you choose approved topic area 8 ‘The business and financial performance of an
organisation over a three year period’ then it is likely that you will use the published
financial statements of the organisation as an information source. You must include
appropriate extracts from the organisation’s financial statements as an Appendix.
However, these extracts are not included in the word count”

hi trephena
I have seen any supporting spredsheets should be uploaded as excel documents in the appendics. does it mean we cant submit appindics in document?
can u advice me me plz.thank u

@ts1110 – I am nor sure I understand the question.

Excel spreadsheets are used for calculating ratios and producing graphs. The latter should be posted in your RAP and Presentation as images. The spreadsheets themselves are loaded as an Appendix

@avian will – yes label the tabs and make it all clear – don’t make the marker work any harder than they have to as they won’t appreciate having to hunt around to find things… 🙂

I have never known any feedback that has said ‘you have failed on presentation of the findings because you used 10 pages in your Appendices rather than 8 as stipulated’. I suspect they say 8 to stop someone loading a bucketful and slowing down the system (and markers must have better things to do than count pages. I laughed on here when someone implied the markers physically counted the words manually – I am reliably informed they don’t, BUT if they suspect that tricks have been used to evade passages being detected and counted then they resort to a forensic examination of it and will come down heavily on anyone infringing the Rules illicitly and/or blatantly.

So when it comes to your Appendices: Chill baby! Chill! 😀

@avian will – You may call your Excel tabs Appendix 1, Appendix 2 etc. but it will only count as 1 Appendix file 🙂

Regarding tables: graphs and charts are more appropriate for T 8 as they visually show the position with greater clarity when making numerical comparisons [ for some topics when comparing facts such as T17 & T 20 tables are useful as they (a) save on word count and home in on the key issues and (b) can break up page after page of text ].

I always suggest students get someone to review their work objectively before they submit – does it read well? Can someone follow it or are they drowned in sea of numbers? Does the way the work is presented look slick? As I have stressed many times – good graphs and charts speak a thousand words – they are what markers want! ( see the FAQs on our homepage) – so sock it to them! Give them lots of good explanations too and they will be happy.

I read comments on here occasionally where students have a go at the markers and kind of make out they are on a witch hunt. However I’ve met and talked to a few of them and most of them are pretty nice people, who are just paid to do a job properly and only wish students would help make their lives easier by taking on board all the guidelines and feedback. Seems as far as the markers are concerned it is actually quicker to pass a student than having to fail and then write all the detailed feedback….. So although it may surprise the naysayers on here – that’s what they really hope they can do… (or so I am told) 🙂

@avian will – I believe you can set up your login details and password and then exit the site. As far as I am aware once you have done this you can go in and load your files whenever you like during the submission window 🙂

@Ahmad – OBU Mentor, @LearningLuminarium will appreciate your feedback on the above too

@avian will – some more chilling required I think 🙂

1. No problem in having 3 years accounts figures on one tab.

2. You may reference your charts to the Appendices. Where a figure you are taking about is shown in the graph there is no need to reference it again in that section. If you are picking out other figures not shown in the graph above it, it will require a ref and I consider that is best done to the annual report although Appendix is probably acceptable (provided you have referenced the Appendices themselves – bung in the webpage link on the spreadsheet – normally URLs are not allowed but appendices fall outside the main report)

Regarding the other student I am guessing here as that is all I have to work on but they probably just put (Annual Reprt XYZ) each time with no year and didn’t list out each report – possibly this annoyed the marker as they thought he was being lazy… or maybe it was other aspects too that cumulatively showed poor Referencing skills

Oh don’t worry about putting the Appendices in the contents page – this is not a criminal offence to leave them out. However you will need to load references as a separate file as it will ask for them in the reference list tab ( and don’t leave the list attached to the RAP when you load as I hear this messes up the word count so markers probably won’t thank you for it)

Chill baby, chill! 🙂

@wajiman -I’m sorry I don’t understand what you are saying your problem is. You can load a glossary as an appendix. Keep the reference list separate from any other file as it is supposed to be loaded as a single document file on its own on the reference tab.

Hi @trephena

so I take it that you meant in one word document that contains list of references…. I can also put bibliography… so two separate sections in one document… correct?

All my appendices are pretty much in the excel file… I labelled the tabs as the appendices… and am calling the excel file itself ‘Appendice 1-7’ … sounds fine?

Thanks!!