Personal Finance

You are also not allowed to collude with others to produce work unless your assessment brief
specifically outlines group work. Collusion means working with at least one other person to
produce a piece of work that you then pass off as your own. You can discuss ideas for the
work with other students, but you must not work with them to produce a piece of work
together, you must not copy or share another student’s work, and you must not lend your
work (including drafts) to another student to allow them to copy your work. If your piece of
work is very similar to that of another student, you are likely to be accused of collusion. If you
are found to have made your work available for another student to copy all or part of it, you
may be referred for disciplinary action even after you have completed your award and are no
longer a student of the University. You must not also falsify information, resources or data in
any way.
These, and any other types of academic misconduct which are likely to give you an unfair
advantage in an assessment, will be referred for investigation. Academic misconduct
threatens the standards of awards we make, so we take this matter extremely seriously
indeed and any student found guilty of this will have penalties applied and in the most serious
of cases students with be withdrawn from the course.
2. Assessment Brief
Required tasks:
1) Graduate + Activities (20 Marks)
You are required to produce an electronic portfolio consisting of the following components:
You are required to attend at least one Graduate + activity/ workshop during Teaching week
7 (07/03/2022) and the Trading Amplify workshop
In your portfolio, it is expected that you will present:
a) Evidence of engagement with at least one chosen Graduate+ workshop and the
mandatory Amplify Trading workshop
b) A summary of one of the workshops attended above and lessons that you have learnt.
(max. 200 words)
2) Reflective Report (60 Marks)
You are required to prepare a written reflective report, about the following topic:
“How has this module, helped to enhance your understanding of personal finance and
the financial decisions, you might undertake in the future?”
Within your reflective report, you would also need to make reference to the weekly cash
budget seminar task, that you were requested to prepare and analyse, based on your own
personal finances; and to reflect on how this activity, would shape your future financial
decision-making process.
Additionally, within your reflective report, you can link your reflection to attended Graduate+
activities, in part 1 of this Assignment.
(max. 1000 words)
Students are encouraged to structure your written reflective report, applying an appropriate
reflective model, such as the: Terry Borton (1970) / Driscoll (2007) Framework model of
reflection.
3. Guidance
3.1. Writing style
Task 2 of the assessment requires you to adopt a reflective approach to the required task,
exploring your personal thoughts, feelings and experiences. Therefore, you should use first
person narrative as opposed to the third person narrative more commonly required by
academic assessments.
Although the assessment contains a range of tasks, it should be presented as a single piece
of work with a sense of narrative flow. As such, it is expected that your document will
include:
• Module Name and Code
• Student Name and ID
• A table of contents, showing each section with their respective page number
• A brief introduction, outlining the purpose and structure of the document
• A clear structure that aligns with the tasks, using numbered headers and sub-headers to
break your work into sections and which starts each new section on a new page
• Closing comments or conclusion
3.2. Formatting and presentation
Formatting and presentation are an important part of demonstrating transferrable,
commercial skills. As such, you should ensure that your assignment:
• Uses formal English, e.g., no slang, inappropriate language, etc.
• Is free from formatting errors, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
• Is structured clearly so that the reader can easily follow the flow of information
• Uses relevant tools such as section headers, section numbering, lists, bullets, etc. where
appropriate to make it reader-friendly and support narrative structure
• References all materials appropriately