Financial crisis political roles
Paper instructions:
What is your view about the “Insider” documentary which is about the financial crisis(http://vimeo.com/m/27292661)? Do you think university professors which were holding political roles as well as board of directorships knew about what was going are in the financial organizations and banks before the recession? What was their reaction when they have been asked in the documentary film about the crisis, their role and its cause? Kindly list at least 3 interviewees opinions by mentioning their name and job titles, and then critically analyse each opinion.
Coursework
This course is assessed by a single group coursework, based around an important topic in strategic management and business strategy called Corporate Governance. Details of coursework components assessment are given below. The weighting of this coursework is 20% of the course. You are reminded that it is the group responsibility to read and understand the University regulations regarding assessment. Your attention is directed to the regulations regarding assessment in the Student’s Handbook of Regulations (available from the University website), and in particular to its guidance on plagiarism.
Coursework Aims: Assess the students’ ability to map between the role of Corporate Governance and the economy recession caused by the financial scandals in real estate that happened in US and heavily impacted the rest of the world between 2006 and 2008. A part from the different research articles and the online material that covered the cause and impact of this economy decline period, a documentary movie part of the insider (http://vimeo.com/m/27292661) can be seen as a vital material covering this event. This documentary movie contains interviews conducted with financial policy makers in US and the rest of the world besides financial analyst and economist from prestige investment corporations and universities.
Outcome report to be assessed with weightings: 15% (15 marks) for the whole course weight, and 5% (5 marks) demonstration at the last class.
Resources Required: Journal Articles; online material, the library, and the insider movie
Deadline for Submission: 16:00 hours of March, 26th, 2014.
Problem Statement
Using different articles (hard copy and online) about the financial crisis that happened between 2006-2008 in the US, and caused by the sharply declining real estate industry. You task as a group to read at least 3 journal articles and 3-6 online material besides watching the insider documentary to answer the following research questions in a technical report:
1) Do you think corporate governance has failed to spot the threats and risks in the financial organizations which have caused the financial crisis in US during 2006-2008? Justify your answer and support it with citations.
2) Do you think corporate governance has been designed to protect the stockholder investments? Why? Why not? Justify your answer. You must use real examples with proper citation (references) to support your answer.
3) What is your view about the “Insider” documentary? Do you think university professors which were holding political roles as well as board of directorships knew about what was going are in the financial organizations and banks before the recession? What was their reaction when they have been asked in the documentary film about the crisis, their role and its cause? Kindly list at least 3 interviewees opinions by mentioning their name and job titles, and then critically analyse each opinion.
4) What do you recommend as a policy to protect stockholder investments? Kindly use at least 2-3 recommendations from the articles you have read and state yours then after.
The above questions must be answered in a technical report written professionally and not directly question by question. You can divide your report into sections addressing each question and you should have at the end a critical review section where you state your opinion after critically analysing a certain topic.
Technical Report Content
• Title page along with the group details, course details and the instructor information
• Table of content along with the page numbers
• Introduction section where you should state
? general paragraph about the topic and its importance
? The financial crisis and its impact (use citations)
? Your report main goal and objectives
? Last paragraph should highlight the structure of the report
? The body of the report and I’ll leave that for each group to decide. You may start with a section describing the problem happened and then move from their to answer the questions raised earlier in this document.
? References page
Coursework Submission
What to submit:
? The technical report (not less than 3000 keywords)
? References at the last page of the report
? The PPT slides of your team presentation
The assignment must be submitted via Moodle in its own hand-in date (see above). Further you must bring a hard copy to the class. You must follow these guidelines on how to submit your work.
1. All documents must be written in MSWORD and not hand written
2. All documents should include a header with the following information: Your name, your student number and coursework title.
3. Where possible, all documents should include a page footer showing the page number
4. Where possible, documents should be written in Times New Roman 12 point, with 1 1/2 line spacing.
5. The document must be submitted as a zipped file or DOC file with the file name GroupNum GroupNames Title.zip, where GroupNum is the group number and Title the title of the project’s component.
For example: Olga, Ahmad, Aisha with a group number of 3 would submit work in the zipped / DOC file 3- Olga, Ahmad, Aisha –CourseWork-BUS310zip
Moodle records the date and time of each submission. This date and time will be used to determine whether work has been submitted after the deadline. Such work will be marked, but the mark for this submission capped at a bare pass (equivalent to 50%).
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