Cases In Finance
2000 words. By 14th 22:59 Barcelona time.
CASES IN FINANCE Task brief & rubrics
Task: MID-TERM TIMED ASSIGNMENT
Choose a Case of your election, related to a Financial matter or to an Economic/Enterprise case, and explain the first part of the Case. Within the Case explanation, please make sure to follow the following structure:
1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction to the Case
3. Methodology and Hypothesis (if any)
4. Literature Review
Submission: deadline is Sunday 14th March 2021 at 22:59 CET – Via Moodle (Turnitin).
Weight: 40% of your total grade for this subject.
Details and Formalities:
· The Assignment is an individual task.
· It shall be submitted in a word document format. If you need to attach some graphics or calculations you can do it as an appendix.
· Wordcount: between 2,000 and 2,500 words.
· Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
· Font: Arial 11 pts.
· Text alignment: Justified.
· The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
Rubrics
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Exceptional 90-100 |
Good 80-89 |
Fair 70-79 |
Marginal fail 60-69 |
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Knowledge & Understanding (30%) |
Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner. |
Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary. |
Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary. |
Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary. |
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Application (30%) |
Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. |
Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. |
Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident. |
Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident. |
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Critical Thinking (30%) |
Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors. |
Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references. |
Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant. |
Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources. |
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Communication (10%) |
Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck. |
Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck. |
Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident. |
Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident. |