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2010/2011  KAN-AEF_AE59  Business Project in Applied Economics and Finance

English Title
Business Project in Applied Economics and Finance

Course Information

Language English
Point 7,5 ECTS (225 SAT)
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Course Period Spring
Time Table Please see course schedule at e-Campus
Study Board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course Coordinator
  • Lisbeth La Cour - Department of Economics
Main Category of the Course
  • Economics, macro economics and managerial economics
Last updated on 29 maj 2012
Learning Objectives
To provide a real-life experience in the form of a consulting report, researched and written by at team of junior consultants (students). The student should apply the analytical skills acquired during the first year on a problem of relevance to a company or an organisation.

Upon completion of the course/project the student must be able to:
Apply the economics and finance skills and analytical competences acquired during the first year courses at a high level on a relevant business problem.
Apply a relevant and practically oriented perspective on the business problem selected for the project.
Take into account the consultancy aspect of the business project, i.e. the relevance of the problem for the company, the value added of the economic or financial analysis and the ability to apply and communicate acquired economic and/or financial knowledge in the process.
Examination
Business Project in Applied Economics and Finance
Marking Scale 7-step scale
Censorship External examiners
Exam Period May/June
The exam has the form of a written report (max. 60 A4 pages). The report is written by a team of 4 students. The project is graded by an internal as well as an external examiner, cf. the General Degree Regulation § 25 S. no. 2. As each student receives an individual grade, each group member must identify the exam sections he/she has authored, cf. the General Degree Regulation § 27, S. Each group will be given 4 hours of supervision. Deadline for the handing in the report will be in June 2011 and will be announced by the programme secretary. Make-up/re-exam will take place in August 2011. If the student did not pass the regular exam, a new or a revised project, cf. advice for the examiner from the ordinary exam, must be handed in to a new deadline announced by the programme secretary. The make-up/re-exam report can be written individually or in groups (provided that other students are taking the make-up/re-exam). All written re-exams cf. § 14-20 may be changed to oral exams according to the number of students
Examination
Prerequisites for Attending the Exam
Course Content

This course is a foundation course and complementary to all courses taught in the first year of the AEF concentration.

There will be an introduction to the project in early February aiming at getting students to find a corporate partner/supervisor as well as getting them to form teams (groups of four students).
The business project is a way of getting to apply the economics and finance skills acquired during the first year courses of the programme. The corporate supervisor assigns a project to the team and enough supervision to initiate the process. The deadline of the project is common to all projects: 10 June 2011. There will thus be approximately six working weeks available for researching, analysing and writing up the project. The academic supervisor (chosen on the basis of the content of the project) will assist the group in academic issues and possibly in team dynamics. International student teams of four students should carry out the Business Project and each team should include one local student and one international student.

Teaching Methods
One or two introductory lectures
Supervision
Literature

All of the literature in the AEF programme’s first-year curriculum.