Corporate Accountability

AC6001 Reassessment Brief 001 (2014 – 15) 1. Module code and title

AC6001 Corporate Accountability

2. Module tutor

Surraya Rowe

3. Tutor with responsibility for this Assessment

Surraya Rowe This is your first point of contact.

4. (Element number), Weighting, Type and Size of Assessment

001: 50% Coursework: Group work: Presentation: 20 minutes; Standard: Written: 2500 words You will be penalised according to the Academic Regulations for Taught Provision if you exceed the size limit.

5. Submission deadline

27th JULY 2015 Your attention is drawn to the penalties for late submission; see Academic Regulations for Taught Provision

6. Arrangements for submission

Electronic submission via Student Records Online. • You are advised to submit work electronically by midday (British

local time) to ensure that technical support is available should you encounter any issues with the electronic submission process.

• The maximum size for an individual file to be uploaded is 5MB. • You should use the following convention for naming your file:

'Bloggs_J_ s0123456_XX101_A1' (for example, Joe Bloggs – student number s0123456 – submitting a file for XX101 assessment task 1). You are also advised to add this information to the header section of your submitted document.

• All files must be submitted as [specify file format type, if necessary]. [Note: please refer to the project's web pages at https://infonet.glos.ac.uk/departments/adu/ema/ for details of approved file formats.]

Information about electronic submission, including a set of Frequently Asked Questions, is available at https://infonet.glos.ac.uk/departments/adu/ema/Pages/emastudents. aspx

7. Date and location for return of work

Written feedback will be available on your student record on Date TBC

8. Disabled students

Alternative assessment arrangements may be made, where appropriate, for disabled students. However, these will only be implemented upon the advice of the Disability Advisor. Disabled students wishing to be considered for alternative assessment arrangements must give notification of the disability (with evidence) to the Disability Advisor by the published deadlines.

9. University Regulations for Assessment

All assessments are subject to the Academic Regulations for Taught Provision. These include regulations relating to Errors of Attribution and Assessment Offences. In exercising their judgement, Examiners may penalise any work where the standard of English, numeracy or presentation adversely affects the quality of the work, or where the work submitted exceeds the published size or time limits, or where the work fails to follow normal academic conventions for acknowledging sources.

10. The requirements for the assessment 1

You are required to write in an academic essay of 2,500 words on the following issue, which demonstrates effective use of extensive reading and research around the subject. Please note that you are also required to submit a soft copy the essay in a CD or a pen-drive.

Using academic literature, critically discuss the differences between THREE main corporate governance practices and policies around the world.

11. Special instructions Careful referencing of sources is vital when making use of the work of others. You are expected to employ the referencing conventions recommended in the Course. These conventions apply to information taken from internet sources, as well as books, journals and lectures. These are some of the points you should check before submitting your work:

• are all direct quotations, from both primary and secondary sources, suitably acknowledged (placed in quotation marks or indented)?

• have you provided full details of the source of the quotation, according to the referencing convention used in the Field/Course?

• have you acknowledged the source of ideas not your own, even if you are not quoting directly from the source?

• have you avoided close paraphrase from sources? (Check that you are not presenting other people’s words or phrasing as if they are your own.)

If you are unsure of the way to reference properly, seek advice from a member of staff before you submit the assessment. In submitting your work for assessment you are making a statement that it is your own work, it has not been submitted for any other assessment, and it does not infringe the ethical principles set out in the University’s Handbook for Research Ethics. 12. Assessment criteria Marks will be allocated for the work according to the marking grid below: AC6001 assignment feedback

Marks available

Marks awarded

Comments

Identification and description of key issues of corporate governance covered by case study

25

Evaluation and analysis, development of coherent and logical arguments

40

Effective introduction and conclusion

25

Bibliography, referencing,

10

2

presentation and use of English TOTAL 100

3