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HI5002 Finance for Business Group Assignment T2 2020
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T2 2020
Unit Code HI5002
Unit Title Finance for Business
Assessment Type Group Assignment
Assessment Title Research on Financial market and Capital Budgeting Analysis
Purpose of the
assessment (with
ULO Mapping)
Students are enrolled a group up to 4 members to study, undertake research, analyse
and conduct academic work within the topics of financial management from week 1 to
week 9 (ULO 1, 2, 3 and 4).
Weight 40 % of the total assessments
Total Marks 40
Word limit Not more than 3,000 words
Due Date Final Submission of Group Assignment: Sunday 11:59 pm, 11th October 2020
Submission
Guidelines
• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed
assignment cover page. Make sure that your group member’s name and surname,
student ID, unit name, and code and lecture’s name are written on the cover sheet
of the submitted assignment. A table of contribution by group members into group
work is also to be provided in the cover page (please see the assignment cover page
attached).
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm
margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page
numbers.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately
at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style.
• Submitted work should be your original work showing your genuine studying.
Evidence of your original work (allocation of tasks, discussion, file exchanges, drafts,
etc.) need to be presented in the records of your group work in Discussion Board or
Group Blogs, available in Group Tools in your Group for Group Assignment. Your
assignment WILL NOT BE MARKED without the evidence of your group work.
• Students need to read and understand the Holmes Academic Integrity Policy before
they start any assessment to ensure that your assignment is misconduct free.
(Please refer section 4.3 Guide to Academic Integrity p 27 of the Holmes Student
Handbook and read Six Categories of Academic Integrity Breaches at the end of
assignment carefully).
• Three attempts of submission are allowed for checking similarity and final
submission. Only final submission is marked. As a guide, a similarity score of over
30% is considered as excessive except in the cases where the similarity is caused by
the use of template provided by the lecturers, specific types of assignment,
eferences or sources of data. Please note that it takes 48 hours for the self-check
eport to be available for your viewing. Please also note that fact findings and
working at same case study project evaluation assignment like this one may yield
higher than 30% similarity. Therefore, do not panic and send emails to your lecturers
and Unit Coordinator about high similarity after your submission if your work is
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genuine. Markers and Unit Coordinator will look at details of the similarity report
and ensure a proper marking without any bias on that threshold 30%.
• When you submit your assignment electronically, please save the file as ‘Group
Assignment- your group name.doc’. You are required to submit the assignment at
Blackboard/Assessments/Group Assignment Information/Group Assignment and
Submission Link. Always keep an electronic copy of your original file until you have
eceived the final grade for the Unit. Please make sure that you submit the co
ect
file in the co
ect format that is readable in Black Board. ANY APPEAL RELATING TO
SUBMITTING WRONG FILES AND WRONG FORMAT AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL
NOT BE CONSIDERED.
ASSIGNMENT SPECIFICATIONS
Assignment Tasks
This assignment task is a written report that include 3 parts:
Part 1 is a research and fact finding on Australian financial market.
Part 2 is a fact finding of financial market trading practices and regulation in Australia.
Part 3 is risk analysis and project evaluation.
To complete the assignment, groups are recommended to obtain data and information from relevant
web sites, especially websites of Australia Stock Exchange: www.asx.com.au; Australian Securities
and Investment Commission: https:
asic.gov.au/ for their research and fact finding. Using secondary
data (researches done by others) for fact findings in Pat 1 and Part 2 is NOT RECOMMENDED and will
e PENALIZED. Please also note: group assignment for HI5002 is DIFFERENT every trimester. Attempt
to submit a PREVIOUS TRIMESTER ASSIGNMENT or A WRONG ASSIGNMENT will get a ZERO (0) mark
without any consideration for resubmission. Students are required to sit the Interactive Tutorial
Session in Week 9 for training on how to do the group assignment with co
ect capital budgeting
technique, proper format, structure, calculation tables and terminology. Any assignment with
different technique, improper format, structure, calculation tables and terminologies will be given
zero mark.
Requirements
The assignment should cover the contents described below.
Assignment Structure and Details of Assignment Tasks
Introduction
Briefly introduction of your group’s work: the purpose of assignment, key findings and structure of
the assignment (not more than 300 words)
Part 1. Research and fact finding of Australian financial market
1.1 Comparison of three essential types of businesses in Australia: use the following criteria and
organize your comparison in a relevant table:
1) Owne
s of businesses
2) Level of difficulty in setting up the business
3) Life the business (limited or unlimited)
4) Liabilities of owners over the business’s debts
5) Legal status of business
6) Level of difficulty in mobilizing funds
http:
www.asx.com.au
http:
www.asx.com.au
http:
www.asx.com.au
https:
asic.gov.au
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7) Level of difficulty in business transfer.
1.2 Analysis of five basic principles of finance: Define the five basic principles finance and justify
your analysis by illustrating examples: Choose one or more events described by media (CNN
Business, Financial Times, Dow Jones financial news etc.) about companies and financial
market. Analyse that event (s) applying the five basis principles of finance. Note: Each principle
is to be illustrated by at least one event. The events should be in 2020.
Example of an event in media that reflect one of five basic principle of finance:
“The biotechnology company Moderna said Tuesday that its vaccine, developed in partnership
with the National Institutes of Health, has been found to induce immune responses in all of the
volunteers who received it in a Phase 1 study. Moderna coronavirus vaccine shows 'promising'
safety and immune response results in published Phase 1 study, but more research is needed
The early results are the first for a US vaccine candidate to be published in a peer-reviewed
medical journal, in this case the New England Journal of Medicine. The news sent shares of
Moderna skyrocketing nearly 18% in premarket trading. Later this month, the company is
expected to begin a large Phase 3 trial, the final stage before regulators decide whether to
approve the vaccine.”
Source: Julia H. 2020, The world loves the US dollar. Trump and the pandemic could change
that, published July 15, 2020 at CNN Business, retrieved from
https:
edition.cnn.com/2020/07/15/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
This article paragraph clearly shows the principle: Market price reflects information. Please
note that this is just an example of relevant event on media for your analysis. To meet the
equirement of this assignment question, you will need to analyse your selected event and
justify why and how a basis principle of finance apply to that event.
Part 2. Fact Finding of Australian financial market trading practices and regulations
2.1 Fact finding of the trading on ASX
Assuming your group is working for an institutional investor that is considering to trade
actively on ASX in the near future. Go to the website of Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), do
a fact finding to answer the following questions:
(1) Identify at least 5 types of information the public companies provide on the area of
Previous Trading Day Announcement.
(2) How are the dividend released by the public companies listed on ASX. Briefly explain
the concepts of ex-dividend date, record date, date payable, dividend franking and
type of dividends by the companies listed on ASX.
(3) Name 7 types of trading reports listed in ASX 24 Reports. Briefly describe the content
of each report.
(4) How many types of calculators available on ASX website for the usage of investors and
practitioners? Name them and explain the usage of each calculator.
(5) What are the questions you should ask your
oker before you start trading?
2.2 Fact Finding of financial market regulator in Australia
Assuming after graduation you would like to apply for a position at ASIC. Go to the website
of Australian Securities and Investment Commission, do a fact finding and answer the
following questions:
(1) What are the ASIC roles?
(2) Who and what ASIC regulate?
(3) What are the powers of ASIC?
http:
www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/health/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-phase-1-study/index.html
https:
edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/health/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-phase-1-study/index.html
https:
edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/health/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-phase-1-study/index.html
https:
edition.cnn.com/2020/07/15/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
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(4) If a business approaches you to ask about procedures for providing credit activities,
what kind of license you would advise them to apply for and what are the steps they
should consider to decide whether they should apply for that license?
(5) What is book up practice in Australia,
iefly explain.
Part 3: Risk analysis and project evaluation
3.1 Perform a scenario analysis on the data provided
Case Study: Assume that the company, where you are working as a team in Financial
Department, is considering a potential project with a new product that is expected to sell for
an average price of $22 per unit and the company expects it can sell XXXXXXXXXXunit per year at
this price for a period of 4 years. Launching this project will require purchase of a $ XXXXXXXXXX
equipment that has residual value in four years of $ XXXXXXXXXXand adding $ XXXXXXXXXXin working
capital which is expected to