individual assignment

• Address each question directly. You don’t need to present answers in
essay or report form.
• The word limit is 1000-2000 words. Make sure you answer/address the
question directly.
• Reference your answers if you are using information from another source
using Harvard referencing (a guide is available on the portal under
“Assessments”).
• Do not plagiarise your answers or you will get 0. Please see p.4 of Student
Misconduct Policy for a definition of plagiarism and the consequences:
http://kbs.edu.au/CurrentStudents/SchoolPolicies/InformationforallStudent
s/StudentMisconductPolicy/tabid/445/Default.aspx
• The assignment needs to be submitted on the portal through Turnitin.
Instructions on how to do this are available on the course page under
“Assessments” and also on the portal welcome page. Please read it
carefully as before the due date you can submit a draft and get a similarity
report. If your assignment is directly copied from another source or
student this will be identified by Turnitin and you will receive 0
marks.
• Please submit a word document
Useful sources
• You may wish to look at the sources listed below to get started. However,
you will also have to do some of your own research.
Online Links
• Newspaper websites: ABC, The guardian newspaper, The Australian, The
Financial Review, Bloomberg
• Google news search /Other Finance textbooks
• Yahoo finance: You can look up the share price and market data related to any
publicly listed company – http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=bhp&ql=1
Sources on the portal
• Chapter 12 Viney, Case Studies in Financial Crises, “Financial Market
Essentials”(2011) McGraw and Hill (this is available on the portal under
assessments)