Australian finance corporate

Literature Review Instructions:

This is a group assessment with a maximum of 3 members. Each group is required to select a topic from a number of Corporate Finance topics and write a literature review.

The topics are as follows.

· Capital Structure

· Dividend Policy

· Corporate Governance

· Initial Public Offerings (IPO)

· Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

There are 10 suggested article readings for each of the topic above. After reading these suggested articles, students should be able to pick up some ideas on the development of the theories related to these topics. Note that these articles are recommendations only. Students may use none of the suggested reading articles.

Please go through the Suggested Way to Write a Critical Literature Review.

The presentation of the literature review should be in 1.5 lines spacing and 12pt font .

Although there is no minimum words limit for the literature review, it should not be less than 8 to 10 pages (excluding tables, graphs and references) .

Please have one nominate member to submit the written document once with all members’ names on the document through Turnitin on the Blackboard.

Please note: Plagiarism is a serious offence. Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Work submitted will be all subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which will include the use of systems such as ‘Turnitin’ (you need to have less than 20% similarity excluding the reference for your report). If plagiarism is detected in a literature review, all the students in the group will receive zero for this assessment and your names will be reported to the School of Economics and Finance. So, please do not copy! Please do share the workload for this assessment with your group members as it is a group assignment. Members of the group should contribute evenly to the literature review.

Please also retain your electronic copy until the final exam finishes for further reference.