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November 6, 2014
Assignment issued
Assignment due
November 13, 2014
Assessor name
Assignment title
You have just become an analyst in a mutual fund which operates both
in Vietnam and in any other foreign countries. As part of the new
employee training program, your direct supervisor gives you an
assignment where you need to do research on different organizations in
both countries as your potential investment targets. In addition, you also
need to do research on economic systems of Vietnam and the selected
country to support your future investment decisions. At this training
stage, your supervisor does not ask you to give investment
recommendations. The supervisor only wants you to acquire
organizational research skills.
Your supervisor sets out specific tasks and asks you to write a report
without restriction on pages however you are strongly advised to keep
yourself as much cohesive, concise and flexible as possible. The report is
required to show the cover page, table of contents, list of references,
and appendices. Your report needs to show insights on two main
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Specific
requirements
(see Appendix for
assessment criteria
and grade
descriptors)
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Next, you need to discuss strategies that the organization uses to meet
the two selected responsibilities, which may include internal processes,
human capital, information capital, and organization capital. For
example, the organization can set up internal controls for environmental
legislation compliance.
Task 1.3 produces evidence for assessment criterion 1.3.
- Task 2.1. Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate resources
effectively
To make effective investment decisions in the contexts of Vietnam and
the foreign environment, you need to write about major economic
systems in these two countries.
First, you need to give key macroeconomic features of Vietnam and the
selected organization in the foreign environment, and discuss the
mechanisms, i.e. price system and central planning, with which the two
economies allocate resources. Furthermore, based on literature sources,
you can give discussions on how effectively these economic systems
allocate resources.
The key macroeconomic features that you should focus on are size (GDP,
GNP and the cost of living or living standard); population; labor force;
growth;
Task 2.1 provides evidence for assessment criterion 2.1.
- Task 2.2. Assess the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business
organizations and their activities
You need to write about: possible impact of fiscal and monetary policy of
Vietnam on the two selected organization in Task 1.1; activities of these
two organizations have been taken to minimize adverse effects and
benefit from policy changes.
You should rely on theoretical models of monetary and fiscal policy for
analysis. The selected organization examples of monetary and fiscal
policy are economic goals; fiscal policy and control of aggregate demand;
taxes; central and local government spending monetary policy; interest
rates; exchange rate and money supply.
Task 2.2 provides evidence for assessment criterion 2.2
- Task 2.3. Evaluate the impact of competition policy and other
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Student guidelines
2. You should use tables, diagrams and figures where appropriate and be
sure to give sources of information.
3. You should include a list of references to all cited sources using the
Harvard referencing system.
You should use font Calibri size 12 with 1.5 spacing.
Submission
requirements
Students are expected to submit both soft and hard copy of assignment
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To achieve a merit
grade the evidence
must show that, in
addition to the pass
criteria, the learner is
able to achieve at
least one/two
following skills:
To achieve a distinction
grade, the evidence
must show that, in
addition to the pass and
merit criteria, the
learner is able to
achieve at least
one/two following
skills:
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LO1.
Understand the
organizational
purposes of
businesses
M1 Be able to identify
and apply your own
strategies to find
appropriate solutions.
In particular your
work must show:
- Compare and
contrast different
structures of
organizational and
cultures. In particular:
+ vision mission,
+ goals, objectives,
+ organizational
values,
+ nature of products
+ ownership
structure,
+ customers,
+ number of
employees,
+ market values, +
revenues, profits, and
market share
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these organizations
and show your
analysis, discussions,
and comparisons on
them.
- An effective method
on either quantitative
or qualitative to study
further on the
selected organization
and research will have
to be applied.
+ Aggregate Demand,
+ Aggregate Supply
(AD, AS) model
+ IS, LM Model to
illustrate and justify
on:
+ Price system and
central planning,
government fiscal and
monetary policies
with which the two
economies allocate
resources.
solutions to meet
stakes holders different
objectives.
+ Self criticism on an
organizations structure
and culture that effects
on the business
organization
+ draw your own
conclusions on
responsibilities and
strategies employed by
the business
organization
- Be able to evaluate
the application on one
of the competition
policies into real life
business and other
regulatory mechanisms
on the activities of the
selected organizations.
-Be able to include, use
critical reflection and
justify with your own
valid conclusions on
Vietnam competition
policy (policy examples
are the Competition
Law and the AntiDumping Ordinance.
- Evaluate on how
effectively these
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LO2.
Understand
the nature of
the national
environment in
which
businesses
operate
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economic systems
allocate resources.
- Apply appropriate
economic models to
solve the economic
scare resources of the
two selected
organizations.
- Justify more advance
macroeconomic
features/models that
you should used to
explain and evaluate
their impacts on the
overall economy,
namely:
+ GDP,
D2 Take responsibility
for managing and
organizing activities.
- Be able to use
methodology
(quantitative,
qualitative, surveys, PO
method..,) to illustrate
the nature of the
national environment in
which businesses
operate:
+ Macro environments:
Political
+ GNP
Economical
Pollutions
+ population;
+ Micro environments:
+ labor force;
Suppliers
+ growth;
-
Be able to obtain
source of both
quantitative and
qualitative
information GDP,
GNP, the cost of
living, living
standard, labor
force and growth.
Competitors
Cost of production
- Highlight the effect of
a range of economics
system (between fiscal
and monetary policy)
and external factors has
had on the selected
Show some
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organization.
+ Identify possible impact
of competition policy and
other regulations on the
selected organization's
activities.
+ Foreign environment
examples (foreign
environment) of different
competition policy and
regulations are
competition policy (up-todate legislation) including
Vietnam competition
policy (policy examples are
the Competition Law and
the Anti-Dumping
Ordinance.)
indicators to
prove your
findings
- Source of information
- Quantity
M3 Present and
communicate
appropriate findings
- language
- citation
- presentation
- chart
- Substantial
- World bank
- Be able to obtain
secondary data with
some numbers, figures
and indicators of World
Bank on VN nationals
economy recently.
- format
-writing
- An appropriate
approach should be
used to analyze the
two selected
organizations
responsibilities and
make your own
conclusion on these
two responsibilities.
- Be coherent and
show logical
development of
principles and
concepts for the
intended audience
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organization.
D3 Demonstrate
convergent/lateral/crea
tive thinking
- Ideas creative
- advise and modify for
Vietnamese contact
- Reflect the real
strategies that the
organization uses to
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-The communication
should be more
appropriate for:
+ familiar audiences
+ unfamiliar audiences
+ An appropriate
media should be used
to discuss and analyze
the mechanisms (price
system and central
planning with which
the two economies
allocating resources.
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resources effectively.
- Be able to
demonstrate your
convergent thinking to
make yourself
evaluation on the
impact of the two
economics model (fiscal
and monetary policy)
on the two selected
organizations.
- Demonstrate your
convergent thinking to
make yourself
evaluation on the
impact of the two
economics model:
- Under fiscal:
+ Tax revenue
+ Government spending
- Under monetary:
+ Inflation
+ interest rate
+ Money supply
- Be able to use critical
reflection to evaluate
and justify the possible
impact of the
competition policy and
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other regulatory
mechanisms on the
activities of the selected
organizations.
- Be able to
demonstrate
convergent thinking to
make yourself
evaluation on the
possible impact of the
competition policy.
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Verifier 1
Signature
Date
Internal
Verifier 2
Signature
Date
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