MAN00162M Finance Summative Assignment Research Proposal

MAN00162M-S3A-A Individual Research Project – Finance

The assignment requires a research proposal outlining the research choices underlying your Individual Research Project (IRP).

You need to organise this assessment around a question-based or pitch-based format whereby learners choose a topic to consider from the four choices outlined Corporate Finance (Governance), Investing (ESG) Reports, Accounting, and Economics and Finance research design sessions. For this assignment outline the specific research question you wish to consider, the research design you deem as appropriate to follow, identify the data to collect from the University of York datasets and outline the statistical methods you wish to deploy in your IRP.

These choices will be accompanied by a brief discussion of the following issues:

1. Working Title and Basic Research Question
2. Key academic paper(s) in this field of study
3. Motivation/Puzzle, Idea?
4. Data?
5. Tools and Techniques employed?
6. What’s New? So What? Contribution?
7. Other Considerations

It is essential in this proposal that you discuss why the decisions made are appropriate and incorporate a critical interpretation of the decisions made.

MAN00162M Format: 

The formative coursework assignment is to be of length not exceeding 1000 words, including any footnotes, but excluding the contents’ page and appendices/annexes and references. The coursework should be developed using size 12 font with 1.5 line spacing. Please make sure that the references are made in an acceptable (Harvard referencing style) format. The format of the coursework must include an introduction, a conclusion and references.

Suggested Readings: Readings for the different areas for research are located on the VLE site for the different research design areas.