EC35720 - BUSINESS FINANCE PROJECT

Module Identifier

EC35720

Module Title

BUSINESS FINANCE PROJECT

Academic Year

2005/2006

Co-ordinator

Professor Peter R Midmore

Semester

Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)

Pre-Requisite

All core modules on the Business Finance degree scheme

Mutually Exclusive

EC35420

Course delivery

Lecture

Seminars / Tutorials

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment Length/Details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	Semester One: 6000 word group report (including 15% for a presentation)	30%
Semester Assessment	Semester Two: 6000 word individual report	70%
Supplementary Assessment	Re-submission of the individual project	100%

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Learn to investigate the current economic environment of a firm or financial organisation and analyse and evalute its financial strategy with respect to particular features of its external or internal environment. The group part of this project includes, as objectives, the development of teamworking and presentational skills.

Develop, individually, business finance research skills, including networking with other people investigating firms in the same sector.

Aims

This module is the final year focal point of the Business Finance degree. Its aims are for students to integrate learning from various parts of the scheme, develop practical skills in business economic research methods, develop team-work, time-management, initiative, report writing and presentational skills.

Brief description

This is a final year core module involving supervised preparation of group and individual reports on economic and financial aspects of the operating environment of a financial sector and a firm or organisation within that.

Content

Report writing structure, and style; leadership, motivation and delegation; team-building; presentations; research methods; sources of information; company/organisational/institutional analysis; report-writing, drafting, revision and finalisation.

Transferable skills

Project work will develop students' ability to work both in a team context and also independently; IT and information handling skills will be developed and reports are expected to be word processed; students will be expected to manager their own time in order to meet submission deadlines.

Reading Lists

Books
The nature of this module is such that there is no set text. Students are expected to use in their work, concepts learned in other modules of their degree scheme. Consequently, they will need to refer back to reading material and notes from previous modules. Students will also be expected to use their own initiative and to undertake extensive research on their chosen industry/firm.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6