Portfolio Assignment on UK Small Business: Learning Outcomes, Tasks, and Submission Requirements

Learning Outcomes for the item of assessmentThis item of assessment covers the following learning outcomes. For the full list of learning outcomes for the module, please refer to the Module Study Guide.

•Distinguish between business ideas and opportunities.

•Identify the essential ingredients to being a successful entrepreneur.•Assess the characteristics of successful small businesses.

•Critically  analyse  and  evaluate  the  entrepreneurial  process  through  which  business ideas may be evaluated.

•Critically discuss, analyse and evaluate the benefits and potential drawbacks of owning a small business.

•Identify and describe team building dynamics.

Your  work  will  be  marked  in  grades  rather  than  percentages.  

This  is  considered  to  deliver  the  most accurate and fair outcomes for students.  Each assignment that you undertake will be assessed using the  common grading  system.  

Information  about  the  gradingsystem  can  be  found  in  your StudentHandbook.The Grade Criteria can be found in Appendix Cof your Student Handbook.5.Assessment 2Details5.1TaskIn this assignment, you will compile a 3,000-word portfolio on a UK based small business.

The portfolio consists  of  a  mixture  of  short  reports  and  reflections  grounded  in  the  small  business  management literature covered in topics in class. More guidance on how to approach portfolio development will be given in class.In putting together your portfolio, you are required to complete the following tasks:

•Choose any UK-based small business from any sector of your choice and provide some general background. This forms your introduction of the portfolio. (500 words)

•Write a 500-word statement justifying why you believe your chosen business qualifies as a small business. (500 words).

•Draft a detailed business portfolio on the company, based on a rigorous, comprehensive and  detailed  knowledge  base  of  theory/literature –from  any  three  topics  (500  words each)  covered  in  class.  Financial  planning  must  be  one  of  these  three  topics.  (1500 words).

•In  500  words,  write  a  recommendation  for  your  chosen  business  as  to  how  its competitiveness can be improved upon in the next 3 years. (500 words).Submit your responses to thesetasks in one MS Word document. The overall word count is 3,000 words in total (excluding references).

5.2 Submission requirementsYou  are  required  to  submit  this  assignment Thursday09April2020, 3pm. You  must  submit  your assignment by using the Turnitin gateway in the module’s Canvas site.Please Note: When  you  submit  you  will  be  asked  to  confirm  you  have  referred  to  the  Submission Checklist and  the  act  of  submitting  your  work  electronically  will  be  taken  as  an acceptance of theDeclaration of Authorship .

.Have you checked Canvas messages/announcements for any additional/final details of the assessment?

2.Are you submitting in the correct submissionareae.g. if it is a resubmissionof your secondassignmentit should be ‘AS2R’?

3.Make sure you are submitting the correct final version of your work.4.Have you kept to the word limit?  Remember, anything greater than 10% above the word count will not be marked.

5.Have you addressed the assessment requirements as outlined in the Assessment Brief?

6.Have you spell checked and proofread your work?

7.Is your work formatted correctly and consistently?

8.Are you submitting a document in the correct format?

9.Is your work written in an appropriate academic style?

10.Have you checked your citations and Reference List/Bibliography?

11.Have you submitted your work to get a similarity report to check you have paraphrased where required?

12.Have you read the Declaration of Authorship in Appendix 2of the Assessment Brief?