Assignment Brief

Assignment Coursework (60%) Anonymous Yes

Number and marking
Weighting
Submission Date See Aula Expected 14 working days from the deadline
and Time submission link return of
feedback and
marked work
Submission Electronically via Aula Word Count 2000
(Turnitin) ONLY
Procedure

Assignment Title CW (Coursework)

Assessment 1. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the contexts in which financial institutions operate, including legal,
Learning ethical, and social; markets; national and international regulatory and rule setting bodies.
Outcomes 2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of contemporary theories and empirical evidence concerning financial
markets and institutions.
3. Critically analyse the role and impacts of global financial market on business environment in supporting
business decisions.
4. Demonstrate advanced understanding of the technical language and practices of the financial sector; and the
irrational nature of financial markets.
5. Demonstrate advanced financial data analytical skills to support the arguments and present effectively to
experts and non-expert audience.
Details of the task Specific Tasks

This assignment is in the form of a 2000-word individual Open Book, Case Study Report based on the same firm
used for the presentation.

The purpose of this coursework is to use relevant Excel templates to conduct event studies to test market
efficiency. This is to be based on the same one firm you selected for your presentation coursework. Based on
the result of event studies, determine trading strategies and instruments to be applied to exploit price
efficiency/inefficiency to arrive at appropriate conclusion and recommendations for investment in your chosen
firm.

• Critically analyse the Efficient market Hypothesis (EMH) and its relevance as they relate to your firm (20%).

• Conduct event analysis to test EMH. An event analysis template is provided separately based on contents of
Chapter 14 Benninga (2014) ‘Financial Modeling (4th edition)’ (30%).

• You are required to demonstrate trading strategies and instruments that would be appropriate for exploiting
price efficiency/inefficiency during the global pandemic. Your analysis should forecast possible trading profits
from investing in the firm, going forward until an approximate cut-off date (30%).

• Conclusion and Recommendation. Conclude your analysis based on the above and recommend appropriate
courses of action for trading and investment (10%).

• Presentation, Originality and Referencing. The general presentation of your report, the degree of initiative
taken and the quality and quantity of referencing (10%).

Assignment Guidelines

Structure

You have been asked to produce a report. It should contain the following:
• Appropriate coversheet (as attached per Aula)
• Title Page, including the given title in full.
• Contents Page
• Introduction
 • Main body, which should also be organised under appropriate headings.
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendices, which should be numbered.
o Make sure you refer your reader to them as required.

Layout
Your work should be word processed in accordance with the following:

• Font style, Arial, font size 12

• 1.5 line spacing.
• The page orientation should be ‘portrait’
• Margins on both sides of the page should be no less than 2.5 cm
• Pages should be numbered
• Your name should not appear on the script.
• Your student number should be included on every page.

Additional Skills

Attend a Spotlight session as advertised on Aula.

Marking Criteria/Rubric

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Rubric 0
(1-29) (30-39) (40-49) (50-59) (60-69) (70-79) (80-89) (90-99) (100)
Template Fail
Fail Fail Pass Pass Merit Distinction Distinction Distinction Distinction

No attempt,
Learning Poor, Inadequate, Basic, Competent, Articulated, highly Superb, Faultless,
No Reasonable, fair, Strong, proficient,
Pillars and LO Weight unsatisfactory, incomplete, satisfactory, commendable, impressive, outstanding, publishable,
submission, appropriate very good
Criteria weak limited acceptable effective excellent original industry
Absent
standard
1
A publisher
Outstanding
industry standard
application of
Excellent discussion on
A reasonable An articulate and EMH with critical
A weak application of the EMH and great
No attempt, A poor overview of the highly impressive thinking on model
Critically analyse Inadequate description of the A good discussion EMH in the context application. Well-
No application. theories with fair application of EMH and limitation.
the Efficient application. theories but of the theories and of the case study reasoned critical
submission, Written amount of research discussion which Some originality
market 20% Written analysis if acceptable application in the with proficient thinking and
Absent analysis, if and application. includes insights in thinking.
Hypothesis attempted, is application with context of the case explanation. great originality
attempted, is and limitation.
(EMH) and its incomplete. some contextual study. established via
confused.
relevance in a understanding. research and
highly volatile application.
setting such as a
global pandemic
2,3,
4 A publisher
Outstanding
industry standard
application of
Excellent discussion of
A reasonable An articulate event studies with
A weak application of event event studies and
A poor overview of event application of event critical thinking on
Conduct event Inadequate application of the A good discussion studies in the great application.
No attempt, application. studies with fair studies. A highly model and
analysis to test application. event study of event studies context of the case Well- reasoned
No Written amount of research impressive limitation and
EMH. 30% Written analysis if analysis but and application in study using all critical thinking
submission, analysis, if and application to discussion which further
attempted, is acceptable the context of the appropriate tests and great
Absent attempted, is test the theories includes insights improvement
incomplete. application with case study to test and applied to the originality
confused. even though into the models and through new
some contextual EMH. models with established via
limited. limitations. techniques and
understanding. proficient research and
tools. Some
explanation. application with
originality in
significant
thinking.
improvement to
the models and
techniques.
3,4, A good discussion A proficient An articulated and A publisher
5 A weak An outstanding
A reasonable and application of application of highly impressive industry
application of discussion and
Very poor Inadequate application of trading strategy. trading strategy. discussion and standard
trading strategy. application of
discussion. discussion. trading strategy. Valuation is Discussion is application of discussion and
Discussion and Written analysis trading strategy.
Theories and Theories are Written analysis competent and competent and trading strategy. A application on
application of No attempt, attempted but Well-reasoned
applications discussed poorly. attempted but lacks commendable with commendable with relatively well trading
relevant trading No lacks depth. discussion/critical
30% are discussed The discussions depth. Fair amount relevant points relevant points reasoned strategy.
strategies submission, Insufficient valuation of the
very poorly. are not coherent of evidence being made in the being made in the discussion/critical Well-reasoned
Absent amount of results backed up
The to some extent presented. written analysis written analysis valuation of the discussion/critic
evidence by excellent
discussions are with limited Appropriate level of backed up by backed up by results backed up al valuation of
presented. Basic evidence. Some
not coherent. application. research and evidence. evidence. by good evidence. the results
level of research original research
application. Effective research Effective research Excellent research backed up by
and application. and application.
and application. and application. and application. excellent
evidence. Great
originality
 established via
research and
application.

Overall 5
presentation, No attempt,
Poor, Inadequate, Basic, Competent, Articulated, highly Superb, Faultless,
conclusion and No Reasonable, fair, Strong, proficient,
10% unsatisfactory, incomplete, satisfactory, commendable, impressive, outstanding, publishable,
recommendation submission, appropriate very good
weak limited acceptable effective excellent original industry
Absent
standard

Presentation, 1-5
Originality
No attempt, Poor, Inadequate, Basic, Competent, Articulated, highly Superb, Faultless,
and 10% unsatisfactory, incomplete, satisfactory, Reasonable, fair, commendable, Strong, proficient, impressive, outstanding, publishable,
No
Referencing.
submission, weak limited acceptable appropriate effective very good excellent original industry standard
Absent