44-708266 International Finance Management Task 2 Report Assessment Brief | SHU

Assessment Brief 

You have been organised into groups of three and allocated a country upon which to base your assignment on. You must then answer the following questions.

Required:

(a) Extract the appropriate data and graph your country's exchange rate against the pound. The data should be weekly and cover the last 5 years. You then need to critically discuss trends in the exchange rate, including the volatility of the exchange rate and the impact of the exchange rate trends on companies engaging in FDI in your allocated country.

(b )Identify what you consider to be the political risks facing companies thinking of investing in your allocated country and how a company would go about trying to mitigate these risks.

(c) Identify a recent and substantive example of FDI in your allocated country. 

Critically evaluate:

• The rationale behind the identified investment in the country
• how the parent company have financed the FDI
• How the venture is progressing from the parent company's point of view

The assignment must be word processed and not more than 2,000 words in length. List all the sources of information used in your assignment. Photocopy and include in an appendix any relevant financial data. All books, journals or electronic data systems (including web addresses) used in the preparation of your report must be clearly and appropriately referenced in footnotes using academic referencing. All quotations made directly from books, journals or other information media must be acknowledged by using footnotes and quotation marks. More information is below.

1. Referencing

Accurate and consistent referencing is essential in all academic work. Whenever you refer to either the work or ideas of someone or are influenced by another's work, you must acknowledge this. Similarly, if you make a direct quotation from someone's work, this should be referred to accurately.

Useful guidance can be found here on the SHU Library Gateway site:

2. Academic Integrity

If your work is not properly referenced, it may appear that you are trying to present someone else's ideas as your own. This is plagiarism, and it is considered to be a form of cheating. It is your responsibility to ensure that your work conforms to the University's standards of academic integrity. Please see SHU's "Academic Misconduct Policy" if you are in any doubt what is meant by plagiarism:

3. Submission

You must submit your group assignment via an electronic copy, in full, via the BlackBoard "Coursework Submission Point" link in the "Assessment" folder no later than 3 pm (see BB module homepage [Assessment] for the deadline). You only need to submit the assignment once per group, so please nominate one person from your group to submit the assignment.

In addition, the Assignment must also be submitted to Turnitin via a link in the ‘Assessment’ folder on the module Blackboard site. Again, please nominate one person from your group to submit the assignment to Turnitin.

4. Feedback

You will be provided with electronic feedback within three working weeks of the assignment being handed in.

5. Peer Assessment

The default position will be assumed to be that the mark on the assignment is appropriate to all three students and that everyone in the group has contributed appropriately. If this is not the case, then students need to contact the module leader in the last week preceding the deadline for submission to confirm whether they want their work to be marked as a group or be assigned an individual mark based on the question they have done. In the latter case, the students need to have identified the questions asked by each member of the group.

You must have at least 5 group meetings. If you have less than 4 out of 5, then this would be considered a non-engagement, which would result in a mark of 0. Please take note of who was present at the meeting. (The best thing is through calendar invites).

Assessed Module Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate an appreciation of and evaluate the financial management skills required to operate in a  complex multi-national global organisations
• Apply appropriate financial models and tools in the strategic management of the organisation.
• Critically evaluate financial models and tools and their usefulness in tactical and operation management of complex global organisations.
• Critically reflect on your learning from this module, evaluating how theories and concepts in international financial management are linked to other modules on the course, the organisational context and your own personal and professional development.