Master of Business in accounting

MBACC/MBFIN 52014 -
Project in Accounting and
Finance

Course Overview
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 Administration
• Teaching Team
• Class Times
• Learning Resources
• Assessments

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 Teaching Team
• Course Leader:
– Prof. Ariyarathna Jayamaha
(B.Com; M.Com; PhD; FCA)
– Room F2-1
– Phone ext: 950
– Email: jayamaha@kln.ac.lk

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 Class Times
• Lecture
• Sunday 9:00pm – 12:00 pm

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 Learning Resources Cont.
• LMS- the course home page (access via
• http://lms.kln.ac.lk/mbus/course/view.php?id=11

• General
• News – where announcements are made that are important to read
• Social forum – discussion of a general nature (not module or assessment
specific)

– Introduction

• Welcome
• Course content index
• Participation activities & marking – instruction for participation and mark
distribution

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 Assessments
• Assignment 1
– Weighting 10%-5 activities-submit end of every 1-5 week
• Assignment 2
Weighting 10% literature review
• Due Week 8 at 5pm 20th March 2021

• Assignment 3 conceptual framework

• Weighting 10% Due Week 10 Weighting 10% 31st March 2021
• Assignment 4- presentations
• Weighting 30% during week 11-15- April 2021

• Final report

– Weighting 40% 30th April 2021

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 Assignment 1
– Weighting 10%-5 activities-submit end of every 1-5 week

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 Assignment 2

• Due Week 8 at 5pm – 20th March 2021

• Assignment activity on LMS

– Assignment 2 Instructions will be notified at the LMS

• Assignment must be submitted electronically through drop box

link- No paper submission required

• The literature review represents 20% of your coursework mark and

is a formal academic piece of writing (MAX. 2000 words excluding
references).
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 Assignment 3
• Due Week 11- Weighting 10%
• 31 March 2021
• Assignment activity on LMS
– Assignment 3 Instructions will be notified at the LMS

• Assignment must be submitted electronically through drop box link

– No paper submission required

• Marks for all assignments will be found in Grades on course LMS

only during semester

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 Assignment 4
• Due Week 11- 15 Weighting 30%
• During April 2021

• Presentation e-presentations

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 Final report-Research
proposal
• Final report
• The Final research report is a 5000 word desk-based
project and is worth 40% of the marks on this module. It
is due in on end of April 2021.
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• Instructions will be notified at the LMS

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 To be assured of a passing
grade…
• Students should attempt all pieces of
assessment
• Must achieve an aggregate mark across
all pieces of assessment of at least 50%

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Assignment Notes as contracted in
the Course Specification
• (iv) No extension will be granted after the
solution has been made available to
students.
• (v) Assignments are to be submitted in
accordance with the assignment instructions
provided or as directed by the course
examiner.
• (vi) The Examiner will not accept submission
of assignments by facsimile/Email or in paper
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 Plagiarism and Collusion

• Every year some students are reported for plagiarism. If

you are using ideas, diagrams, models, tables, quotations
or ANY other material from a published or unpublished
source, you must give details of that source. Use the
referencing system recommended by the library, and if in
doubt ask a tutor for clarification. To fail to credit your
sources is plagiarism, which is an assessment offence
according to the regulations of the University.
• Another commonly reported assessment offence is
collusion: although you can discuss, review or advise on
each other’s work, to present the same, or very similar,
piece of individual work between two or more of you is
collusion
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 To avoid either of these offences:

• NEVER CUT AND PASTE FROM A RESOURCE INTO YOUR OWN

WORK – even if you later change the words, students often get caught out
• Always give the authors’ name(s) and year of publication in the text every
time you use information from their work, plus a full citation in the reference
list at the end
• Never allow other students to use your work, or share your work with others
• Never copy from other students’ assignments
• Never copy from previous years’ assignments
• Never copy from assignments at other universities or from other modules
• Never use internet essay mills or ‘cheat sites’
• Never copy from books, articles or newspapers without full attribution
• Never copy material from the internet, or from any other source whatsoever

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 All the Best
Remember
• If you have any doubts or concerns speak with or
contact your Lecturer
• Still not sure, contact the course leader through the
discussion forums
– Contact this way so all students can benefit from your
questions
• Don’t wait to the last minute to ask a question or
request an extension
– Soon as you know you are going to have a difficulty (sickness
strikes), discuss with course leader even if it is 2-3 weeks
away from your submission – just in case you won’t make the
deadline
• We are here to help

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All the Best

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