Group assignment of two person . Subject name - decision support tools Research project Value: 10% Due date: 21-Apr-2017 Return date: 15-May-2017 Submission method options Alternative submission method Task The following collaborative research project requires you to work in groups, each group consisting of approximately 2 or 3 students. Please confirm your group composition with your lecturer. You and a group of investors are interested in setting up a chain of coaching colleges in a number of Local Government Areas in Australia. The aim of these colleges is to coach students in years 7 to 12 in order to maximise their final scores in the students' year 12 exams. In order to do this successfully you need to ensure that the regions you choose will support your business over the next 10 years. Your minimum criteria are: • enough adults who are likely to have children within those age ranges • these adults have the funds to pay for coaching (how you identify that is up to you but you need to document this criterion) • enough children in the coaching age group. These are the minimum criteria – you should identify some more that you can use in this business decision. Your task is to prepare a report to be presented to your co-investors which identifies two (2) Local Government Areas in Australia which meet your criteria. Your report should demonstrate how these Local Government Areas meet the minimum criteria above and additional criteria which you have identified. You should also identify additional statistical information that is required before a final decision is made to start building the first coaching centre. Making presentations and working in teams are important professional s******s. As a Master graduate accountant you are expected to be able to justify and communicate accounting advice and ideas in diverse collaborative contexts. In doing this assessment you are demonstrating some of these s******s. Guidance for effective collaborative work is available in Resources. Your report should be professionally presented as a PowerPoint with voice added to each slide. The voice addition that you make is your presentation to the other investors. It should not simply repeat what you have on the slide. Your presentation (5-7 slides not counting the slides with references) needs to sell what you have researched. Here are some resources you can use to help you prepare the best presentation. Only one team member need submit the PowerPoint presentation but each team member must submit a 250 word individual reflection on the team process. http://www.slideshare.net/damonnofar/8-tips-for-slideshare You may choose how you want to work as a group. Some suggestions are to use one or a mixture of Skype, Face time, Google Docs – there are many more. Initial information on how to use these can be found by doing an online search – see some suggestions below: http://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Video-Conference-in-Skype http://www.wikihow.com/Use-FaceTime http://www.wikihow.com/Add-******io-to-Powerpoint-2010 ______________ Mark allocation Development and explanation of criteria 1.5 Substantial data collection, analysis and conclusion 3 Quality of presentation 1.5 Individual reflection on the group process. 4 Rationale This assessment item asesses the folowing subject learning outcomes: be able to demonstrate problem-solving s******s in assessing, organising, summarising and interpreting relevant data for decision making purposes; be able to apply decision theory to business situations; The task also provides the opportunity for students to work cooperatively in groups and to communicate the results of their research.