COLLEGE OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME

B.Sc. in Accounting, Auditing and Finance
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT BRIEF-1
Weightage: 30%

Student Name &

ST Number

Semester 6 Summer 2021

Assignment Title Multinational organization and Corporate Governance

Module International Corporate Finance Assessor: Ms. Mariam

Hassen
Start Date: 26/07/2021 Internal Ms.Kumutha
Verifier Krishnan
Due Date: Formative – 05/08/2021
Summative – 12/08/2021 (Assignment
and Presentation brief)
Date of Presentation – Will be scheduled
in the last week

Required Work, Format and Grading

You must submit the following by the assignment due date:
 Completed answers to each task, making sure that you fully address each of the outcome
criteria.
 Answer all questions separately.
 Assignments without TURNITIN report will not be accepted. The assignment must be submitted to
turnitin in word document.
 The submission is in the form of an numerical/written report. This should be written in a concise,
formal business style using single spacing and font size 12.
 The file must be saved in the format: student ID-CMA-Formative-A1, for formative submission and
student ID-CMA-Summative-A1, for summative assignment
 You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work
must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system.
Resources:

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You need to demonstrate a confident application of the theories to the assignment task. The
theoretical underpinning of your observations and deliberations should also demonstrate a
good understanding of the subject by the way that your analysis is structured.

You can access the Internet to research about the topic. You should demonstrate good
academic practice by the appropriate use of academic texts and journals that are properly
referenced.
Guidelines and further information about assignment:
Assignment must be submitted with the “Turnitin” report. If the report generated indicates a
similarity index percentage of 20% or more, a review of your assignment is necessary to
ensure the same is reduced to less than 20%.

Student declaration:

I certify that the work contained in this assignment was researched and prepared by
me:

Signature: ___________________________ Date: ___________________

Grades given are subjected to Internal Verification. No grades are Final

The user ID and Password for submitting the soft copy of the report through TURNITIN
is as follows: The following ID and Password is for Evening batch Students Only.

Class ID Enrolment Password:

Submission time and date

You should submit the assignment by the time and date mentioned otherwise a ‘No
Marks’ will be awarded. Fill in the form cover and submit with your assignment. Make
sure that all the relevant details are complete. Assignments must be submitted by the
due date. You may include diagrams, figures etc without word penalty.

Plagiarism Writing

Summary

1. Plagiarism occurs if you use somebody else’s work in an assignment or exam

answer, but fail to state where you got the material from. You need to be also

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 very careful about the amount of words you are using from somebody else’s
work.
2. It can happen in any type of assessment where you are given the questions or
tasks in advance.
3. If another student uses your work in his/her answer(s), both you and he/she will
be punished when caught.
4. Punishments for committing plagiarism can be very severe.

Details

Plagiarism is a form of cheating in which students use the work of others and present it
as their own. It may include all or any one of the following –

1. Copy extensively from the work of others (from sources such as books,
magazines, journal, web-sites etc) and submit the work as your own.
2. Copy another students’ work and submit it for assessment under your own
name.
3. Allow another student to copy your work and then submit it for assessment
under their own name.

What happens if you get caught?

The examining body of CBFS may punish offending students in any manner that they
deem fit. Typical punishments may range from reduction in marks, making students re-
sit modules and even failing students on a module or an entire award. The college
considers this form of cheating as a serious offence. Therefore be forewarned!
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 Scenario

Globalization is the word used to describe the growing interedepndence of the world’s
economies, cutures and populations, brought about by cross border trade in good and
services, technology, flow of investment, people and information. Multinational
organizations has largely contributed towards globalization. Multinational organizations
dominate world production and trade. They control a substantial portion of world
production and total sales of a good number of products.

A multinational corporation means an enterprise which allocates company resources

without regard to national frontiers but is nationally based in terms of ownership and top
management. Basically, they are international corporations with a production location in
more than one country. These enterprises own or control production or service facilities
outside the country in which they are based.

Their managerial headquarters are located in one country (home country) to carry out
their operations in a number of other countries (host countries). The liberalisation of
controls over international direct investment by most of the countries and the steps taken
by the developing countries to invite foreign capital for encouraging industrial
development after the Second World War has brought about the growth of multinational
corporations. The large number of American, European and Japanese MNCs are working
in the developing countries. Now, multinationals are also emerging from developing
countries and countries from far east Asia.

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A corporate scandal can occur any time in a MNC if there is evidence of unethical
behaviour, negligence or third-party interference, evidence of ‘creative’ accounting,
dodgy business practices, data breaches or anything that damages the environment.
Corporate governance is a field that has gained increased interest from academics and
policymakers around the world in the past decade, spurred by major corporate scandals
and governance problems in a host of countries, including the corporate scandals of
Enron in the United States and Parmalat in Italy and the expropriation of minority
shareholders in the East Asian crisis countries and other emerging countries.

Requirement;

Task 01
You are rquired to prepare a critical analytical report on multinational companies
and corporate governance.

Your report should cover the below requirements, with suitable examples from
Multinational companies.

a. Assess the impact of Globalization and Multinational Organizations in developing

economies.
b. Evaluate the importance of corporate governance to overcome scandals that could
take place in Multinational Organizations.
c. Discuss the impact on Covid- 19 on Multinational companies and their long run
operations.

Word Limt of 2000 word (10% + or -)

(25 Marks)

The written report must include a;

 Title Page
 Table of Content
 Introduction
 Content
- Part a
- Part b
- Part c
 Conclusion
 Reference List (Harvard Style)

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Task 2
The examiner/ lecturer will conduct a presentation of the report. Learner are required to
prepare a powerpoint presentation consusting of 10 -12 slides and submit on Turnitin
before presentation.
(5 Marks)

Marking Scheme for written report

Knowledge 7.5 Marks

Analysis 10 Marks
Research 2.5 Marks
Relevance 2.5 Marks
Conclusion 2.5 Marks
Total 25 Marks

Marking Scheme for Presentation

Delivery 1.25 Marks

Method 1.25 Marks
Structure 1.25 Marks
Content 1.25 Marks
Total 5 Marks

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 Rubrics for Assignment Report
Marks/Grades 90-100 85-89 74-84 56-73 50-55 0-49
Criterion A Scale 4.0 A- Scale 3.7 B Scale 3.0 C Scale 2.0 D Scale 1.3 F Scale 0.0
Knowledge Shows Sound Major facts Shows Minimal No
30% well- understandi are understandi understandi understandin
coordinated ng of understood ng of basic ng of basic g of the
understandi subject issues/theor issues/topic topic/subject
ng of matter y area
subject
Analysis 40% Touches Detailed Reasoned Shows Fails to No or
upon all coverage of argument evidence of identify minimal
relevant basic and understandi subtle understandin
issues/theor concepts/the sequencing ng of issues/theor g of the key
y. Concise ory. concepts. y. Captures theories/topi
analysis Reasonable Coverage obvious c
coverage of of obvious ideas.
subtle ideas.
issues/theor
y
Research Excellent Use of up- Appropriat Adequate Weak Poor
10% referencing to-date e referencing reading and referencing.
and reading resources. referencing and referencing Shows lack
in all areas Well reading. of
informed reading/refer
and ences out of
generally date
accurate
information
provided.
Relevance All Material Discussion Some Some No
10% material used is shows material repetitive relevance to
used is of relevant relationship repetitive matter. subject
relevance to theory Irrelevant matter
Conclusion Excellent Intelligent Methods Conclusion Weak Poor
10% conclusion. conclusion. incorporate in place but conclusion conclusion.
Brings Good modificatio key points and content. Poor
together all application ns used missing. Satisfactory knowledge
concepts of Reasonable application application.
and adds an knowledge application of
original of ideas/theory
perspective knowledge

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 Rubrics for Presentation

Marks/Grades 90-100 85-89 74-84 56-73 50-55 0-49

Criterion A Scale A- Scale 3.7 B Scale C Scale D Scale 1.3 F Scale 0.0
4.0 3.0 2.0
Delivery Shows Sound Some Basic Minimal No
25% well- coordinated evidence coordinate coordinated evidence of
coordinate delivery of d delivery delivery coordinated
d delivery with coordinate with with delivery
with confidence d delivery average limited with low
confidenc with confidenc confidence confidence
e confidenc e
e
Methods Creative Sound Some Shows Minimal No
25% quality of quality of evidence basic evidence of evidence of
PPT slides PPT slides of quality quality of quality of quality of
of PPT PPT slides PPT slides PPT slides
slides
Structure Shows Sound Evidence Shows Minimal No
25% well- logical of logical basic logical evidence of
coordinate structure & structure logical structure & logical
d logical flow & flow structure flow structure &
structure & flow flow
& flow
Content Shows Sound Some Shows Minimal No
25% well- evidence of evidence basic evidence of evidence of
coordinate coherent, of coherent, coherent, coherent,
d evidence insightful coherent, insightful insightful insightful
of & insightful & & &
coherent, explicitly & explicitly explicitly explicitly
insightful relevant explicitly relevant relevant relevant
& answer to relevant answer to answer to answer to
explicitly the answer to the the the
relevant question the question question question
answer to question
the
question