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Coventry University
385ACC (Part-time)
Advanced Study for Accounting and Finance
ASSIGNMENT 2019
Coursework Submission
Coursework should be submitted on given dateline in electronic
format, via Turnitin and a hard
copy submitted to the Lecturer for second-marking.
Coursework Assignment
This is an Individual written assignment. Prepare a report for
about 7,000 words (+/- 10%)
Learning Outcomes Assessed
The intended learning outcomes are that on completion of this
project the student should be able
to:
1) Work independently, but with tutor guidance, on a project of
their choice.
2) Synthesise a wide range of academic literature in order to
evaluate critically current
research and contemporary issues in accounting or finance.
3) Utilise and apply relevant accounting and finance models,
theories and concepts in order

to produce a properly researched written report.
4) Gather and organise evidence and draw appropriate
conclusions based on a sound
understanding of the models, concepts and theories utilised.
5) Produce clear and coherent written work, supported by
appropriate references to the
sources used (using the Coventry Harvard method of
referencing).
Other Information:
• Assignments should not exceed 7,000 words. Please include a
word count at very end of the
assignment.
• Title page, TOC, bibliography and further appropriate and
relevant appendices do not count
towards the word limit. A 10% deduction (pro-rata) will be
made from your mark for every
1,000 words over this limit (i.e. 1% if 100 words over limit etc).
• Coursework assignments should not be copied in part or in
whole from any other source,
except for any clearly marked up quotations. Students found
copying from internet or other
sources will get zero marks and may be excluded from the
university.
• You can refer to the attached marking scheme to understand
the criteria for the marking of
your courework.

385ACC - Assessment Criteria
Guidelines for what would be expected from a project at each
particular level.
Note that not every criterion phrase need apply. Your mark will
be a matter of balance.
1ST
70 - 100
The project is well structured and communicated. It is coherent
and shows an
excellent level of synthesis and/or evaluation with clear signs of
originality and
insight. Has read beyond the immediately relevant reading.
2:1
60 – 69
The project has worthwhile aims and objectives clearly
expressed and an
appropriate methodology. Clear evidence of independent inquiry
and critical
judgement in selecting, ordering, analysing and synthesising.
Has read the
immediately relevant literature and, to a limited extent, beyond.
2:2

50 – 59
Aims and objectives clearly expressed. Some appropriate theory
plus an attempt at
analysis but with only basic linkages made between theory and
analysis. Has read
enough of the immediately relevant literature to be credible.
3RD
40 – 49
Makes only a basic attempt to answer a central research
question. Lacks focus and
only a weak attempt at analysis. Has read some of the
immediately relevant
literature but their command of the subject area is not thorough.
Referencing may
be poor but there is no question of plagiarism.
MARGINAL FAIL
35 – 39
Fails clearly to ask a worthwhile central research question.
Essentially descriptive
work with negligible added value. Shows only limited
understanding and
application of ideas. Little evidence of having read the
immediately relevant
literature. Very poor referencing, (e.g. lists of web-sites alone).
Weak evidence that relevant subject knowledge has been
properly understood.
There may be significant errors in logic or fact.

POOR FAIL
0 - 34
Poorly organised, superficial and descriptive with negligible
understanding of the
issues involved and clearly inadequate analysis. No evidence of
having grasped the
immediately relevant literature.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism, if proved, reduces the mark to zero, but poor
referencing also loses
many marks.
Students are allowed to use the research topic identified by
your earlier
module or they could choose from one of the topic listed below
or topics
approved by your supervisor.
385ACC

Advanced Study for Accounting and Finance Dissertation
Topics
No. Topics
1. Corporate Reporting
2. Finance and Banks
3. Financial Institutions
4. Contemporary Accounting
5. Internal Auditing
6. External Auditors and Fraud
7. Forensic Audit
8. Risk Management Process
9. Corporate Governance
10. Corporate Social Responsibility (Corporate Sustainability)
and Stakeholders
11. Accountants’ Ethics (Does Board's Independance Matters?)
12. Impact of interest rates and exchanges rates on stock prices
13. Islamic Banking in the modern world
14. Impact of Non-Audit Services provided by external auditors
15. Fundamentals in stock market

16. Mergers and Acquisitions in various industries
17. Tax impact on countries’ economy
18. Goods and Services tax – a burden to the people?
19. Accounting and Modern Technology
20. Earnings Management
21. Forecasting Exchange Rates
22. Sports Finance
23. Competition, Efficiency and Stability in Banking
24. Personal Finance
25. General Financial Accounting
26. Calendar Effects

Dissertation Topics
Topic 1 Corporate Reporting
Topic Background:
A corporate report is a comprehensive report on a company's
activities throughout the
preceding year. Corporate reports are intended to give
shareholders and other interested
people information about the company's activities and financial
performance. The primary
objective of corporate reporting is to provide useful information
for decision making.
Example research questions could include:
• To examine the issue of integrated reporting in international
reporting regime.
• The feasibility of harmonization of financial reporting.
• Corporate governance in areas of audit, financial and
management reporting, etc.
• Executive remuneration corporate governance, discretionary
accruals, etc.
• Corporate responsibility in environmental and social
accounting.
• Narrative reporting in qualitative research in social issues.

Topic 2 Finance and Banks
Topic Background:
The aim of Finance and Banks is to provide an outlet for the
increasing flow of scholarly
research concerning financial institutions and the money and
capital markets within which
they function. The emphasis is on theoretical developments and
their implementation,
empirical, applied, and policy-oriented research in banking and
other domestic and
international financial institutions and markets. The purpose is
to improve communications
between, and within, the academic and other research
communities and policymakers and
operational decision makers at financial institutions - private
and public, national and
international, and their regulators.
• To investigate the empirical relationships between the
effectiveness of financial
markets in international and domestic financial and non-
financial sectors.

• To examine the role of communication among different
stakeholders for effective
decision making in banking and finance.
• To assess the impact of internet on banking and finance.
• Examine the openness of the banking and financial sectors in
your country.
• To examine the effect of Brexit on the European Union.
Topic 3 Financial Institutions
Topic Background:
A financial institution is an establishment that conducts
financial transactions such as
investments, loans and deposits. Almost everyone deals with
financial institutions on a
regular basis. Everything from depositing money to taking out
loans and exchanging
currencies must be done through financial institutions.
• Examine the roles and functions financial institutions play in
the society.
• Choose a financial institution product to examine their
features in off-balance sheet

disclosure.
• Opportunistic behaviors in disclosure of intangibles.
• Power and rumours in financial sector.
• Politics in financial institutions.
Topic 4 Contemporary Accounting
Topic Background:
Contemporary Accounting Research is a peer-reviewed
academic journal covering research
on all aspects of accounting's role within organizations,
markets, or society.
• Firms’ characteristics on average shares returns.
• Ownership concentration, family control and audit firm
choice.
• Political connection and audit quality.
• Effects of Asian Financial Crisis on audit quality.
• Audit Committee and audit quality.
Topic 5 Internal Auditing
Topic Background:
Internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and
consulting activity designed to

add value and improve an organization's operations. It helps an
organization accomplish its
objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to
evaluate and improve the
effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance
processes.
• The influence of audit accountability in internal audit.
• Expertise, public interest and risk governance in internal audit
role.
• Management control system – an internal audit perspective.
• Corporate governance and internal audit.
• Internal audit in developing countries.
Topic 6 External Auditors and Fraud
Topic Background:
In light of the recent economic crises and the corporate scandals
of the early 2000’s, the role
of the external auditor as a deterrent to corporate failure has
been the subject of much
discussion. Issues like auditor independence, and audit
mechanisms /processes are now at the
forefront of debate. Also the role of the external auditors in
relation to fraud detection and

reporting is increasingly being challenged, as well the auditor’s
liability.
There is also much debate about whether the audit market is
functioning effectively and
whether there is adequate competition as the large accounting
firms dominate the market.
• Does the audit opinion/report have an impact on share price
movements?
• Do Audit Committees have a significant role to play in
corporate financial reporting?
• The cost of the SOX requirements versus audit quality.
• Can the audit firms continue in their current form offering
audit and consultancy
services to their clients or should audit firms be separate?
• Should the audit market be more closely regulated?
Topic 7 Forensic Audit
Topic Background:
A forensic audit is an examination and evaluation of a firm's or

individual's financial
information for use as evidence in court. A forensic audit can be
conducted in order to
prosecute a party for fraud, embezzlement or other financial
claims.
• A stakeholder view of forensic audit
• Empirical evidence of forensic audit on fraud detections.
• The effectiveness of forensic audit in financial, management
and audit reports.
• The effects of forensic audit on audit opinions.
• The impacts of forensic audit on share price on the company.
Topic 8 Risk Management Process
Topic Background:
Risk Management is the systematic application of management
policies, procedures and
practices to the tasks of establishing the context, identifying,
analyzing, assessing, treating,
monitoring and communicating. It is an iterative process that,
with each cycle, can contribute
progressively to organizational improvement by providing
management with a greater insight
into risks and their impact.

• What was the effect of the financial crisis on bank’s and
country’s credit ratings?
• What main factors determine the estimation of credit rating
models?
Topic 9 Corporate Governance
Topic Background:
Corporate governance continues to be a hugely topical issue in
finance. From the corporate
failures of the likes of Polly Peck in the 1980s and Enron in
2001, up to the current
controversy over bankers pay, it is subject rarely out of the
news.
The issue of how companies are controlled focuses on
mechanisms such as the board of
directors, executive pay structures, the use of consultants,
levels of disclosure, regulation and
codes of practice (e.g. Cadbury, Greenbury, Hampel). The
underlying idea being that good
governance should ultimately lead to long term gains for
shareholders.

• Do firms with larger boards perform better?
• Is there a link between the pay of directors and the
performance of their company?
• What factors determine the level of corporate disclosure?
• What can be early fraud detection measures taken by a
company?
Topic 10 Corporate Social Responsibility (Corporate
Sustainability) and
Stakeholders
Topic Background:
There has been increasing attention on the importance of
corporate social responsibility
(CSR) reporting worldwide. While the number of academic
studies in this area has increased
substantially in recent years, there does not seem to be any clear
consensus concerning
whether engaging in outlays on corporate social and
environmental reporting, perhaps as part
of the corporate social responsibility agenda of a company, is
conducive to augmenting
capital market returns or otherwise (Murray et al, 2006). It is
however suggested that on

average, socially responsible firms may yield higher stock
returns than socially reprehensible
firms (Brammer et al, 2006). In any case, enhanced capital
market performance remains a
strong potential driver for firms to engage in good corporate
social performance as well as
CSER activities.
The European Commission (2001) defines corporate social
responsibility as "a concept
whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns
in their business operations
and in their interaction with stakeholders on a voluntary basis."
The efficient markets
hypothesis suggests that information regarding a company’s
social and environmental
performance should be reflected in the stock market. It is also
suggested that enhanced
corporate social responsibility should lead to enhanced returns
(Brammer & Pavelin, 2006).
A research study that examines CSER practices at the firm level
in specific industries will
help shed light on any possible relationship between the quality

of a firm’s CSER and its
capital market performance.
• What is CSR reporting? How different is that to conventional
corporate reporting?
• Does a company’s quality of CSR reporting affect the
company’s financial
performance?
• What are the incentives for firms to engage in corporate social
activities?
• When is it feasible for firms to engage in profit-sacrificing
CSR?
• How does the interaction of competition and regulation shape
the nature of corporate
social responsibility?
Topic 11 Accountants’ Ethics (Does Board's Independance
Matters?)
Topic Background:
Accounting ethics is primarily a field of applied ethics and is
part of business ethics and
human ethics, the study of moral values and judgments as they
apply to accountancy. It is an

example of professional ethics. Accounting introduced by Luca
Pacioli, and later expanded
by government groups, professional organizations, and
independent companies. Ethics are
taught in accounting courses at higher education institutions as
well as by companies training
accountants and auditors.
• Does stakeholder pressure influence company Greenhouse Gas
emission?
• Audit perspective on under-reporting on time.
• Linguistic performance on audit opinions.
• The Impact on National Culture on Interpretation of uncertain
expressions in financial
and audit reports.
• What makes a board independent?
Topic 12 Impact of interest rates and exchanges rates on stock
prices
Topic Background:
Stock exchange and interest rate are two crucial factors of
economic growth of a country. The
impacts of interest rate on stock exchange provide important

implications for monitory
policy, risk management practices, financial securities valuation
and government policy
towards financial markets. Show empirical relationship between
stock index and interest rate
for developed and developing countries like Australia,
Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, Colombia,
Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippine,
S. Africa, Spain, or
Venezuela. Stationarity of market return is tested and found
none of this stock market follows
random walk model, means not efficient in weak form. To
investigate the reasons of market
inefficiency, relationship between share price and interest rate,
and changes of share price
and changes of interest rate determined through both time series
and panel regressions.
• Firms’ characteristics and risk, distress risk and average stock
returns on share prices.
• Impacts of monetary and fiscal policies on stock prices.
• Continuous disclosure and information asymmetry on forensic
accounting

Topic 13 Islamic Banking in the modern world
Topic Background:
Islamic banking is banking or banking activity that is consistent
with the principles of sharia
(Islamic law) and its practical application through the
development of Islamic economics. As
such, a more correct term for Islamic banking is sharia
compliant finance.
Sharia prohibits acceptance of specific interest or fees for loans
of money (known as riba, or
usury), whether the payment is fixed or floating. Investment in
businesses that provide goods
or services considered contrary to Islamic principles (e.g. pork
or alcohol) is also haraam
("sinful and prohibited"). Although these prohibitions have been
applied historically in
varying degrees in Muslim countries/communities to prevent
un-Islamic practices, only in the
late 20th century were a number of Islamic banks formed to
apply these principles to private
or semi-private commercial institutions within the Muslim
community

• Audit fee determination and client loyalty in Islamic audit
• Audit fee and rotation: An Islamic perspective
• Propensity for carbon disclosure in the Islamic world
• The concept of risk from the Islamic perspective
• Factors associated with students’ performance in accounting
and auditing in the
Islamic countries
Topic 14 Impact of Non-Audit Services provided by external
auditors
Topic Background:
The emergence of professional service firms in recent years has
resulted from a growing
demand from businesses for specialist advice to help them
achieve business advantage in an
increasingly competitive market place.
Much of this advice is requested from audit firms, first because
auditors are trained to
understand the dynamics of a business from an external
perspective and also because

independent viewpoint can often shed light on problems that
may appear intractable from
within an organization.
• Services required by legislation or contract to be undertaken
by the auditors of the
business.
• Services that it is most efficient for the auditors to provide
because of their existing
knowledge of the business, or because the information required
is a by-product of the
audit process.
• Services that could be provided by a number of firms. In this
case, the fact that the
firm is the auditor is incidental and it would generally only be
chosen because, for
example, it had won a tender process.
Topic 15 Fundamentals in stock market
Topic Background:
The general implication of stock market efficiency is that
markets receive new information
about all aspects that affect stock prices but prices adjust with

such speed that investors are
not capable of realizing above-average trading profits by
trading on that information.
Tests of the validity of the EMH have been carried out in most
of the stock exchanges all
over the world. A comprehensive review of the literature
illustrates that even when one sort
of test (the serial correlation coefficient test, the run test, the
variance ratio test, etc.) rejects
the random walk hypothesis, other tests may not. For example,
tests may show monthly
prices follow a random walk, but weekly prices or daily prices
may not. Alternatively, the
returns on indexes for a very long period may be shown to be
independent whilst the returns
on indexes for sub-period may be dependent. Therefore,
applying a variety of tests to
different types of data and comparing the results on the bases of
similar sort of data and test
implements will improve the accuracy of the study.

Topics that might be covered in this type of study include tests
of the EMH (Weak, Semi
strong or Strong form), stock volatility issues or the
implications of behavioral finance.
• Evaluating market efficiency by testing for the random walks
in stock prices
• Can technical analysts generate abnormal gains?
• Do actively managed funds outperform the market?
Topic 16 Mergers and Acquisitions in various industries
Topic Background:
Many firms continue to use mergers and acquisitions as an
alternative to organic growth as a
means of expanding company activities. They can be
particularly useful when firms seek
entry into new markets (geographic or product) or when the
benefits from economies of scale
large. Mergers tend to categorized as vertical, horizontal or
conglomerate and can be funded
either from retained earnings, or by issues of either debt or
equity.

There is an extensive literature on mergers, ranging from the
motivations behind such
activity, the success (or otherwise!) of mergers, to in-depth case
studies of particular,
generally high profile mergers.
• Do mergers actually create shareholder value?
• Why do mergers fail?
• Does the way a merger is funded determine its likely success?
Topic 17 Tax impact on countries’ economy
Topic Background:
The structure and financing of a tax change are critical to
achieving economic growth. Tax
rate cuts may encourage individuals to work, save, and invest,
but if the tax cuts are not
financed by immediate spending cuts, they will likely also
result in an increased federal
budget deficit, which in the long-term will reduce national
saving and raise interest rates.
The net impact on growth is uncertain, but many estimates
suggest it is either small or
negative. Base-broadening measures can eliminate the effect of

tax rate cuts on budget
deficits, but at the same time, they reduce the impact on labor
supply, saving, and investment
and thus reduce the direct impact on growth. They may also
reallocate resources across
sectors toward their highest-value economic use, resulting in
increased efficiency and
potentially raising the overall size of the economy. Results in
the literature suggest that not
all tax changes will have the same impact on growth. Reforms
that improve incentives,
reduce existing distortionary subsidies, avoid windfall gains,
and avoid deficit financing will
have more auspicious effects on the long-term size of the
economy, but may also create trade-
offs between equity and efficiency.
• Impact of various forms of tax on the common people.
• Impact of various forms of tax on businesses.
• Impact of a country’s economy at Global scale.
• Recent examples of major impacts of tax on countries
globally.

Topic 18 Goods and Services tax – a burden to the people?
Topic Background:
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a consumption tax imposed on
the sale of goods and
services. In some countries it is also called Value Added Tax
(VAT). It is a new tax
instrument introduced by the Malaysian government soon,
estimated in 2012 would be the
soonest year of implementation (Customs Department, 2010).
The introduction of GST in
Malaysia has called many arguments from various parties
including academics, professionals
and the nation (would become the taxpayers) on how GST affect
goods prices-increase or
decrease. The onus of GST is to replace the current Sales Tax
and Service Tax in line with
the government policy of conforming policies of AFTA.
• Counties benefitting from GST, reasons and impacts on the
economy.
• Recent introduction of GST bill in countries and the future of
the country.

• Some examples of country with no GST and their global
presence.
Topic 19 Accounting and Modern Technology
Topic Background:
The biggest impact IT has made on accounting is the ability of
companies to develop and use
computerized systems to track and record financial transactions.
IT networks and computer
systems have shortened the time needed by accountants to
prepare and present financial
information to management. This system allows companies to
create individual reports
quickly and easily for management decision making. Other
capabilities of computerized
accounting systems are: Increased Functionality, Improved
Accuracy, Faster Processing, and
Better External Reporting.
• The shift from manual to digital storage and calculation of
ledgers.
• Security threats when data stored on the cloud.
• Accuracy of information, manual vs digital.
• How modern technology is changing the way accountants

work.
Topic 20 Earnings Management
Topic Background:
Earnings management continues to be a topical issue in finance.
Why and how companies
manipulate earning figures? Prior studies on earnings
management have identified several
reasons, including income smoothing (Moses, 1987; Yoon and
Miller, 2002b), management
compensation (Healy, 1985; Gaver et al., 1995; Holthausen et
al., 1995), ownership control
(DeAngelo, 1986, 1988; Perry and Williams, 1994), equity
offerings (Loughran and Ritter,
1995; Loughran and Ritter, 1997; Rangan, 1998; Teoh et al.,
1998; Yoon and Miller, 2002a)
and political costs (Liberty and Zimmerman, 1986; Jones, 1991;
Cahan, 1992; Maydew,
1997; Han and Wang, 1998). Previous researches on earning
management have focused on
accrual-based earning management and recent studies shift to
real transaction-based earnings

management.
• Do firms manipulate earnings through real transaction during
the period of seasoned
equity offering, and how?
• Is the relationship between accrual-based earnings
management and real transaction-
based earnings management substitute or complement?
• What is the relationship between earnings management and
firm value?
Topic 21 Forecasting Exchange Rates
Topic Background:
The purpose of this research is to investigate the application of
different forecasting methods
to predict the exchange rates of advanced, emerging and frontier
market economies. To date,
research on forecasting exchange rates has tended to focus
mostly on advanced economies.
Little attention has been paid on emerging and frontier market
currencies and this research
fills a major gap in the literature. The motivating factors for the
examination of foreign

exchange volatility are twofold. Firstly, like all other financial
markets the market for foreign
exchange has large temporal variations in volatility. Secondly,
recent years have seen the
development of models of conditional heteroscedasticity, which
have been proven to be
highly satisfactory tools to describe the phenomenon of
heteroscedasticity in residuals over
time.
The prime reason for focusing on emerging and frontier markets
exchange rates derives from
the fact that the financial linkages between these markets with
global economy have risen
significantly in recent decades. It is believed that advanced
economies are the main
participants in the financial globalization process, but emerging
and frontier markets have
also started to participate. Emerging and frontier markets often
receive foreign direct
investment (FDI) and other financial flows from advanced
economies. Mauro et al. (2006)
stated that capital flows from advanced to emerging and frontier
countries have significantly

increased since the mid-1990s. This dramatic increase in capital
flows to emerging and
frontier countries has created new challenges for policy makers,
academics, investors,
individual firms and various agents for these countries.
Exchange rate volatility plays a
significant role in this financial globalization process. So as to
manage this process
effectively, it is very important for the policy makers and
various agents to be able to
generate accurate forecasts of exchange rates and their
anticipated volatilities. Thus, it would
be of great importance to investigate whether established time
series models, econometric
models or a combination of both models perform equally well
for emerging and frontier
countries.
• To check whether the volatility is present in emerging and
frontier countries exchange
rate series.

• To examine whether the traditional univariate volatility
models, used widely and
successfully in the literature in relation to advanced countries,
could perform equally
well in emerging and frontier countries.
• To investigate the impacts of good and bad news shocks upon
advanced, emerging
and frontier markets currencies exchange rates.
• To investigate the long- and short-run relationships of
exchange rates with
macroeconomic fundamentals and subsequently to examine
exchange rates’ speed of
return to equilibrium.
• To compare the forecasting performance of a causal
econometric approach with time
series approaches in the context of advanced, emerging and
frontier markets exchange
rates.
Topic 22 Sports Finance
Topic Background:
With the ever increasing commercialization of sport, sports
finance has rapidly grown to
become an area of finance in its own right. General areas of
research in this field could

include the funding and/or financial legacy of major sporting
events, a comparison of the
American and European financing models or the impact of
regulation on sport funding.
Football has arguably the highest profile of all sports and in
recent years the financial
performance of football clubs has increasingly come under close
scrutiny. Many clubs in the
English Premier League are accused of spending too much on
wages and salaries and being
dependent on borrowed money or money from the sale of
television rights. Added to this are
the inflated prices paid for the transfer of players. There is a
huge amount being written on
this topic, and accountants Deloittes produce an annual report
on the financial performance of
football clubs.
• Can the American model be applied in the UK – financial
impact
• Analyse the financial legacy of major sporting events.
• Will the financial regulations imposed by UEFA work?
• Does success on the field of play result in healthy financial
statements?

• Why do so many football clubs in the English Premier League
experience severe
financial problems? Is it solely due to poor financial
management?
Topic 23 Competition, Efficiency and Stability in Banking
Topic Background:
The question of whether more competition in banking is good or
bad for financial system
stability in general and individual bank risk in particular has
been intensely debated in
academic, as well as policymaking and regulatory circles, and
there is no academic
consensus. Moreover, what role the efficiency could play
between competition and bank
stability?
The project can analyse efficiency and productivity in banking
in a country / area of your
choice, and /or assess the impact of market competition on
bank’s performance, and / or
empirically examine the relationship between competition and
systemic risk.

• Efficiency (and productivity) analysis in banking
• Assess the impact of increasing banking competition on
financial stability
• Does competition reduce the risk of bank failure?
• Empirically examine the relationship between developments in
bank efficiency and
bank risk
Topic 24 Personal Finance
Topic Background:
Personal Finance includes a wide range of topics, for example
from the consumer
perspective, decisions on income, saving, borrowing and
lending. From a business
perspective we have businesses involved in investment,
mortgages and real estate, banking
and consumer credit, pensions and insurance. Regardless of
perspective, personal finance can
be explored along many dimensions including behavioural
finance, economics (macro and
micro), politics, ethics, law, gender, sociology, psychology and
information technology.

One of the most important topic areas within Personal Finance
is Personal Financial
Education (PFE), for which the US term is Financial Literacy
Education (FLE). PFE/FLE can
be thought of as how those who currently know about these
things might ensure that
everyone has appropriate and adequate grasp of what they need
to know. PFE/FLE concerns
are remarkably similar across a wide range of countries so
knowledge gained in the UK will
translate easily into expertise elsewhere. One consequence of
the increases in interest in these
areas is a wealth of material, including academic material and
government reports. The
OECD has taken a formal interest in PFE/FLE since 2008 and
its information gateway is an
excellent route into studying these concerns.
• How is one’s approach to personal finance differentially
affected by characteristics
such as age, gender, income, wealth, social class, etc.
• In terms of PFE/FLE, what is current best practice and how
can this best practice:

• Be scaled up to serve all members of a society?
• Be applied in different countries?
• How can the vulnerable best be financially protected without
inhibiting the creation
and delivery of financial services?
Topic 25 General Financial Accounting
Topic Background:
This area can cover a range of topics in ‘classic’ Financial
accounting, for instance,
accounting standards or financial reporting.
• Comparison of accounting standards in different countries
• IFRS and local accounting standards
• Analysis of specific accounting standards (and changes) and
implications for financial
reporting
Topic 26 Calendar Effects
Topic Background:
Calendar effects are cyclical anomalies in returns, which
appears to be related to the calendar.

The most important calendar anomalies are the January effect
and the weekend effect. Many
calendar effects have diminished, disappeared or even reversed
since their discovery.
• Are there still significant calendar effects, such as January
effects?
• What factors may contribute to the calendar effects?
• Whether the calendar effects found can be utilized to generate
positive investment
returns?
• To test the profitability of trading rules based on calendar
anomalies.
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your name in the “Student Name” field. When finished, delete

these instructions and add your own speaker notes. This is
where you will introduce yourself and what you will be
presenting on. Make sure you include all that information here
in the notes instead of the slide.
1
Slide Title
Only bullet points should be here on the slide
Use bullet points to highlight the main ideas in your presenter’s
notes.
The narrative belongs in the notes
Slide 2 : Attention grabber. Put a thought-provoking question or
image here.
Make sure you put your narrative here – this is what you would
say if presenting live. Only bullet points are used on the slides,
and must follow the PPT Best Practices Rule of 6X6:
No more than 6 bullet points
No more than 6 words per bullet point
Also, use light background colors and dark text colors for easier
reading.
Here you will identify your chosen environmental issue. As
identified in the syllabus, the list below will give you some
ideas, but you may choose something not on the list.
Some of the topics may need to be narrowed in focus.
Endangered Species (general or focus on one particular species)
Saving the Rainforests (or wetlands or any other biome in
danger)
Wildlife Conservation (national parks, reserves, hunting)
Pollution (air, water)
Human Overpopulation (food & water shortages, habitat
destruction)

Remember to remove these instructions and put what you would
say if presenting live here.
2
Slide Title
Only bullets
Highlight the main ideas here
Narrative belongs in the notes
Balance information on slide
Slides 3-5: Explain the topic. What is the problem and why is it
a problem (do NOT copy and paste information from other
websites, use your own words). Include images to help explain
your points and to make your slides more interesting. Do not
overload images and words. Remember that less is more.
say if presenting live.
3
Slide Title
Only bullets
your points and to make your slides more interesting.

4
Slide Title
Only bullets
your points and to make your slides more interesting.
5
Slide Title
Only bullets
Cite quotes/paraphrases in notes
Slides 6-8: Explain what can be done (or what is being done) to
solve the problem. You may want to include specific laws and
regulations related to your topic here.
Remember to include your citations here in the notes. The
references will go at the end on the reference slide.

6
Slide Title
Only bullets
7
Slide Title
Only bullets

8
Slide Title
Only bullets
Slides 9-10: What can one individual do to help? Offer advice
and tips to your peers about how individuals can help to solve
the problem or promote awareness.
9
Slide Title
Only bullets
Slides 9-10: What can one individual do to help? Offer advice
and tips to your peers about how individuals can help to solve
the problem or promote awareness.

10
Slide Title
Summarize - Only bullets
Slide 11: Summarize or restate the problem/issue; include any
image credits or sources.
11
Current Event – Week 1
Only bullets
Slide 12-13 : Current Event from the Week 1 ALA
12
Current Event – Week 1
Only bullets

13 : Current Event from the Week 1 ALA
13
Topic Video Critical Thinking & Reasoning
Only bullets
No more than 6 bullets
Slide 14: Topic Video from the Week 6 ALA
Subsequently, you will include in your CLA2 assignment a
separate and distinct heading titled Topic Video Critical
Thinking & Reasoning. You are to critically think about the
solution presented and that you researched and apply critical
thinking and reasoning skills to present one of the following
(include every item in the bullet list below, or you will not
receive full credit):
Affirm the solution presented in the video
Partially affirm the solution presented in the video
Disagree or provide an alternative solution to the problem
presented in the video
Approximately 150 to 250 words in length (minimum of 2
paragraphs) in this notes section
Please be sure to provide justification by citing the article
researched within the text, and include the proper reference
information in the reference page of your assignment.

14
Thank you.
Any Questions?
References
Holt, D. (2016). Branding in the age of social media. Harvard
Business Review (online). Retrieved from:
https://hbr.org/2016/03/branding-in-the-age-of-social-media
McShane, S., & Von Glinow, M. (2017). Organizational
behavior (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill
Smith, T. M. (2015). Elements of ecology (9th ed.). New York:
Pearson.
Last slide – References – This is where you list your references,
in Times New Roman font – 18pt (different than paper so it can
be seen).
Special Note: It is difficult to make the system do a hanging
indent so do not worry about it.
Remember to include the correct reference listings and place in
alphabetical order.
16
Comprehensive learning assessment – CLA 1

From 3100 B.C.E. to 220 C.E., Mesopotamian, African,
American, Indian, Chinese, Grecian and Roman civilizations
flourished with developments that changed the world. As the
regions grew, they developed complex processes and structures
that were specific to their religious beliefs, social norms, and
ethical needs. For this assessment, you will be comparing and
contrasting these civilizations with special emphasis on their
gods, social rulers, and social order.
In a digital format, you will create a presentation showcasing
the differences and similarities between the regions. You are
able to use any digital format you would like to create the
presentation. There are many free programs available online
that are movie makers, slide presentation format (a template is
provided for this), or even a combination of multiple
presentation styles. Your presentation should include photos,
graphs, quotes, and/or video clips that show your synthesis of
the coursework on the two regions and individual research you
have completed. You should include at least three scholarly
articles in your research and cite appropriately.

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