BUSN20017 Effective Business Communication

Over 40 countries currently have mandatory reporting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including the US, the UK, the EU, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. In Australia, GHG reporting is governed the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act) and overseen by the Clean Energy Regulator. While it is not mandatory for GHG reports to be audited unless requested by the regulator, some reporting entities will voluntarily have their GHG reports audited. If an audit is completed, it must be conducted within the guidelines of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Audit) Determination 2009 legislation and relative Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards.  In addition, many companies that lodge GHG Reports will also include details about their greenhouse gas emissions in an annual sustainability report. Assurance of sustainability reports is also not compulsory. However, there appears to be an increasing trend for these reports to be assured. In Australia, Woodside Petroleum Limited (Woodside) and AGL Energy Limited (AGL) are two companies that report to the NGER and issue audited Sustainability Reports.   In this task, you will write a memo in response to the case study provided below. The memo must be logically structured, free of grammatical errors, professionally styled; in addition, follow the writing conventions for memos as discussed in the lecture. This assessment is aimed to assess your written communication skills. Students who do not perform well will be highly recommended to consider training with Academic Learning Centre (ALC). The assessment is aimed to ensure that you have an advanced level of writing skills before you proceed into other units in the postgraduate course. The assessment will also assess the integrity of your work. Given all students will do the same assessment, plagiarism will be monitored to ensure that your submitted work is original and not purchased or copied from other students. Where assessments are found to be similar, penalties may apply in accord with University policy. Case study: Data Solutions is a medium sized company that sells data management software. The company is based in Brisbane and has offices in both Melbourne and Sydney. After conducting an organizationwide communication audit it has become apparent that external communication processes, such as marketing and promotions of the products, are effective and cost-effective. However, the audit has highlighted that there are problems with the internal communication processes