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200101 Accounting Information for Managers Autumn 2013 Page 2 School of Business Individual assignment guidelines The following is a business case that you are required to analyse as per the ‘Required’ section on page 3, by answering the four parts (a, b, c and d) of requirement 1 and compiling a Reference List as per requirement 2. The business case: After being trained by former US vice-president Al Gore, Mike Sewell FCPA is convinced that the weight of scientific evidence behind climate change and the global effects we’re seeing today should be enough to push businesses and individuals to take action. Sewell was general manager and company secretary for the Nossal Institute for Global Health (Nossal), which is actively involved in research, education and inclusive development health practices in developing countries. In July 2011 he underwent an intensive climate change course, along with a group of other volunteers under the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Climate Project. The training was led by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, whose Oscar award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth helped bring mass international attention to climate change. His interest in climate change grew earlier in 2011 when he read an article in the…