BUSN20019: Market Performance: Evidence from 50 Constituent Stocks in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (HSI) - Project Report Assignment Help

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Project Report Assignment

The impact of sustainability disclosures on market performance: evidence from 50 constituent stocks in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (HSI) Assessment 2 - Project Report This is an individual, written assessment, to be completed in report format. You are required to write around 3,000 words (+/- 10%), excluding title page, preliminaries, tables, figures, reference list and appendices. The report requires in-text referencing and a full reference list in APA style, with evidence that you have critically read and integrated a minimum of 20 suitable scholarly references. The purpose of this assessment is to present the final report of the Professional Project you proposed in Assignment 1. This report should build upon both components of your Assessment 1 and it should be developed with the help of the tutor/co-ordinator feedback. In order to successfully complete Assessment 2, you are required to carry out the investigation you have proposed in Assessment 1 and produce a professional research report that shows that you have followed through from finding a research question to answering that question and developing recommendations that arise from your findings. The report will follow the typical structure of a research report and will need to include the following: Project title Introduction (which must include some justification of your topic and your project's aim and research question(s)) Critical literature review A detailed presentation of how you carried out your project (commensurate with a 'Methods' chapter) Findings from your secondary data analysis Discussion of findings in light of your previously reviewed literature Conclusion, including recommendations and limitations Assessment criteria (click here for a detailed marking rubric): Title, background, definitions Justification, aim and objectives/research questions Quality and coherence of introduction and conclusion Critical literature review Methods Findings and analysis Discussion Written communication Quality and appropriateness of references, and accuracy of referencing Qs relating to 'Project report': What is referencing? How do I reference? Please have a look at the below resources from the library and the ALC: What is a report and what does it look like? Please make use of the ALC for support on how to prepare for and write a report:How do we submit our work? Please submit it electronically via the Moodle site. Preferred format is MS Word. Please do not use zip folders. Please note that email submissions will not be accepted. What if I submit late? Please refer to the university policy (available through the web link on the Unit Profile). If you have appropraite grounds for requiring an extension, please use the online extension system and include the relevant evidence - this needs to happen BEFORE the due date! Please be aware that each extension request will be reviewed on its own and there is no guarantee that it will be granted. What are 'preliminaries'? Everything you have to include in a report before the first real section of the report starts; this may include: title page, executive summary, table of contents, acknowledgements, etc. Can we have sub-headings or a detailed structure to use for our report? Yes, a report typically follows this structure: title page, Executive Summary, Table of Contents, Main Body, Reference list, Appendices. You should use the assessment information bullet points as a guideline as to what sections are required - use of further sub-headings is encouraged where appropriate. Is there a word limit for the LR? No. The LR is one section of the report and the length will depend upon the nature of the topic and the amount of available literature. The rule of thumb is this: if you have covered all the main aspects of your aim and objectives/RQs and you have referenced it well, written critically, and you have included a complete picture of the topic, then your LR is complete. Can we use the exact information from our proposal again in the final report? Will it not show up as plagiarism? Because your final report is the same topic as your proposal, you may end up including some of the information from your proposal again in your report. This is allowed BUT you need to remember that your proposal was a very different document to your final report: the former proposed (suggested) your project idea, while the latter presents the final outcomes of your project. As such, all sections of your report will be different from the sections of your proposal (e.g. your preliminary LR in the proposal was very brief, while your actual LR in the report needs to be much more detailed, so you need to re-write it anyway; your methodology in the proposal was a suggested idea for the future, while the methodology in the report will be a report of what you have done in the past, etc.). As such, you are going to amend almost everything you have written in your proposal anyway and should therefore end up with quite a different assignment and no massively high Turnitin score. The only thing that MAY be very similar is the introduction (which includes the background, aim and objectives/RQs, problem definition and justification) and parts of the LR but otherwise, proposal and report are different documents. Do we need to include every reference from the LR also in our discussion? No. You need to ensure you talk about ALL YOUR FINDINGS, and refer all of them back to the literature but you are not required to repeat all of the literature you have reviewed earlier. Especially literature that provides an overview or background would not be part of the more detailed discussion anymore. If we are doing a QUANTS project, do we have to use SPSS? You need to do more than just provide descriptive statistics, but it is not a requirement to use SPSS. Excel has some statistics functionality and there are online calculators. SPSS is the most powerful tool of all of these and some functions are not available elsewhere, so you need to check what kind of function you need and then pick the suitable tool to do it with. This may be SPSS but it could be something else.However, the marking criteria and standards usually change a little in every term and therefore, these examples may not be fully reflective of our term 2 2018 expectations. Therefore, you should not blindly follow these examples without paying attention to your current term's instructions. You can essentially do better if you pay full attention to our assessment briefs, news forum and lecture/tutorial contents along with the assessment help videos. This is just an available example from previous term and not necessarily the HD standard we are looking for. You will notice that the comments reflect on various scopes of improvement. Please remember that using this example to justify your mistakes or avoiding any direct instruction provided in assessment briefs/marking rubric/unit profile/lecture/tutorial slides/video instructions/news forum or discussion forum by the Unit Co-ordinator will not be entertained.