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Part B (30 marks)
“Application and Critical Evaluation of Efficient Market Hypotheses for a company during a 2-year period” Guidance Notes:
- Discuss about Efficient Market
- For the company selected for part A, study the share price over a 2-year period. Conduct a technical analysis of the company using the CAPM
- Take 2 years’ data and apply and critically evaluate Efficient Market Hypotheses for that particular company. Use the contents discussed in the module and the below mentioned 2 research articles in your analysis.
- Show evidence for your arguments for special events like declaration of good / bad news, launching or discontinuing a new product, change of CEO, expansion, any other “news” and its impact on information and then impact on share Provide clear evidence with dates and original news source.
- At the end, summarize with your own
The following shall be the criteria for marking the coursework:
- Depth and coverage of practical issues and theory.................. 10 marks
- Analysis and argument........................................................... 10 marks
- Originality & Presentation formatting...................................... 5 marks
- Accurate Referencing of literature........................................... 5 marks
Notes:
1. The time period for the above case shall be for 2 years: 2018-19 and 2019-20.
2. Additional materials that the students are expected to research and collect are: Annual Reports of the company, Newspapers, Magazines, Websites articles of the company and the industry, industry reports, etc. Please also consult http://www.citethemrightonline.com Suggested Reference Research Articles: a) Fama, Eugene. EFFICIENT CAPITAL MARKETS: A REVIEW OF THEORY AND EMPIRICAL WORK. Journal Of Finance [serial online]. May 1970;25(2):383-417 b) Fama, Eugene. Efficient Capital Markets – II. THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE . VOL. XLVI, NO 5 . DECEMBER 1991 c) Fama, Eugene. Random Walks in Stock Market Prices. Financial Analysts Joumal (September/October 1965):55-59. d) Chung, Dennis, Y.; Hradzil, Karel. Market Efficiency and the Post-Earnings Announcement Drift, Contemporary Accounting Research Vol. 28 No. 3 (Fall 2011) pp. 926–956 1 CAAA. doi:10.1111/j.1911-3846.2011.01078.x Page 159 of 161 |
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Assessed learning outcome (s) | Assesses learning outcomes: 1, 2, 5, 6 & 8. |
Module weighting % | 70% |
Key reading and learning resources | McLaney, E. (2014). Business Finance: Theory and Practice, 10th Edition, Harlow, Pearson (available as ebook)
Drury, C. (2012). Management and Cost Accounting, 8th Edition, Andover, Cengage Learning. (available as ebook) |
Assignment marking criteria rubric (Literature Review)
As part of the assessment and fairness policy and guidance the university has approved a set of rubrics for use with all assignments. These are available for download and subject customisation from MyLearning and in Turnitin, for use with a structured general comment, see policy and guidance for more details https://www.intra.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/services/centre-for-academic-practice-enhancement/policy-bank/FV-Assessment-Fairness.pdf |
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