2024/2025
KAN-CEAPO2004U Business Project
English Title |
Business Project |
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Language |
English |
Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
Type |
Mandatory |
Level |
Full Degree Master |
Duration |
One Semester |
Start time of the course |
Spring |
Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
Study board |
Study Board for OECON and ECFI
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Course
coordinator |
- Battista Severgnini - Department of Economics
(ECON)
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Main academic
disciplines |
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Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
12-03-2024
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Learning objectives |
To provide a real-life experience in the form of
a scientific-based report for consultancy purposes in economics and
finance. The project is written by a team of junior consultants
(students). The student should apply the analytical skills and the
theories acquired during the first year on a problem connected to
at least two courses in the program (one in Finance and one in
Economics). The project can be also related to specific company
and/or organization.
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.
- Explain and argue for the relevance of the problem for the
company and the value added of the economic and/or financial
analysis.
- Communicate the results clearly taking both the consultancy and
the academic aspects into account.
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Examination |
Business
Project:
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Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance, see also the rules about
examination forms in the programme regulations. |
Individual or group exam |
Oral group exam based on written group
product |
Number of people in the group |
3-5 |
Size of written product |
Please see text below |
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Max.10 pages per student |
Assignment type |
Project |
Release of assignment |
Subject chosen by students themselves, see
guidelines if any |
Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
Grading scale |
7-point grading scale |
Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
Exam period |
Summer |
Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
* if a student is absent from the
oral exam due to documented illness but has handed in the written
group product she/he does not have to submit a new product for the
re-take. However the group product must be uploaded once again on
Digital Exam.
* if a whole group fails the oral exam they must hand in a revised
product for the re-take.
* if one student in the group fails the oral exam the course
coordinator chooses whether the student will have the oral exam on
the basis of the same product or if he/she has to hand in a revised
product for the re-take.
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Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
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 as well as
getting them to form teams.
The business project is a way of getting to apply the economics and
finance skills acquired during the first year courses of the
programme. We recommend that each group finds a corporate
supervisor, i.e. a contact person withing a company.
The deadline of the project is common to all projects. There
will thus be approximately four working weeks available for
researching, analysing and writing up the project. The academic
supervisor (which the groups need to find themselves - supervisor
catalogue will be provided) will assist the group in academic
issues and possibly in team dynamics. Each group will be
given 1,5 hours supervision per student.
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Description of the teaching methods |
One or two introductory lectures
Supervision |
Feedback during the teaching period |
Feedback is given during supervision
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Student workload |
Group work |
200 hours |
Supervision |
6 hours |
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Last updated on
12-03-2024