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Assessment: Project context and proposal

Topic: Importance of ethics in accounting.

You will complete an individual professional project that contains two cumulative components

In this unit, you will demonstrate a synthesis of the knowledge, learning, business research methodologies, and professional skills that you have acquired and practiced throughout your Masters course. In particular, this unit builds upon your previous work in the unit Research in Business but the Professional Project will be based SOLELY on secondary sources of information. You will work independently to plan, carry out and report on an investigation that addresses a significant issue or problem in business relevant to your future profession (this will be one of the following: marketing, HR, accounting or management). Throughout the term, your independent study will be complemented by a series of webinars (particularly for external students) and interactions with a campus tutor/lecturer, who will provide guidance.

The purpose of this assessment is to provide the contextual background to YOUR future profession, alongside a proposal detailing the topic of YOUR professional project.

In order to successfully complete assessment 1, you are required to reflect upon your course (program) of study and the 'profession' that is associated with this course. This requires you to explore the notion of 'profession' in general, alongside your future career pathways and the specific profession, towards which you are studying. In particular, you are required to write a report including the following:

1. Project context (500 - 750 words; at least 5 high-quality academic and/or practitioner references): Identify and explore YOUR future profession (marketing, HR, accounting or management)

Produce a critical review of your understanding of what it means to 'become a professional' in YOUR future profession.

2. Project proposal (750 - 1,000 words; at least 10 high-quality academic, peer-reviewed journal articles): Identify a problem or issue - this must be CRUCIALLY relevant to your profession - which your professional project will address, and write the following:

• Clear and concise working title for your project;
• Background and definition of the issue/problem, including a justification why this issue/problem is crucially relevant to your profession;
• Your project's proposed aim and objectives/research questions;
• A preliminary critical literature review on this issue/problem, particularly highlighting any gaps in the literature;
• An overview of how you will be proceeding with your project, including secondary information sources, approaches to analyse them, major milestones and a Gantt chart schedule.

3. In addition, you are required to attach evidence that you have discussed your proposed topic with your campus tutor (or, if you are an external student, your unit co-ordinator) and that the campus tutor (or unit co-ordinator, for external students) has approved the topic prior to the vacation week.  For on-campus students, you should use the BUSN20019 logbook (available here)  to record your interactions with your campus tutor--print it and bring it to every meeting you have with your tutor.  On-campus students should submit the logbook with their assessment (if necessary by scanning it).  For online students, simply include any communication you might have with your unit co-ordinator in your submission.

Your assignment will be marked on the following eight criteria:

• Project context
• Title, background, definition, justification
• Aim and objectives/research questions
• Preliminary critical literature review
• Organisation of the project
• Written communication
• Evidence of tutor/lecturer engagement
• Quality and appropriateness of references, and accuracy of referencing

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar