The Assessment Task

You are a trainee tax accountant at a firm of accountants called Haveit, Needit and Wantit Accountants LLP. In your role you are expected to respond to both internal management and clients directly and in professionally appropriate tones.

Prepare a report for your managing partner. This report is to backed up with research and evidence. You should write this in the style of an essay using correct Harvard referencing.

In part B it’s Wednesday evening and you receive an email from one of your clients. You need to formulate a response to this email for sending to the client directly by Friday evening. You need to ensure that you explain everything clearly as the clients are not tax experienced. The email should focus on advice being offered to the client. In order to correctly formulate the advice you will need to perform some calculations, but the essence of the email will be the reasoned, evidenced, quantified professional advice you are offering to the client. The email should be 600 words, the calculations you perform should be an appendix to the email (not part of the word count)

Part B should be presented in the style of an email. (with To: From: Subject: etc). You need to ensure that you adopt a professional and concise tone and manner at all times as if these emails are being sent directly to external clients.