Overview
Assessment Brief format
1. Module number SOE11307
2. Module title Global Business Economics and Finance
3. Module leader Dr Alina Gavris
4. Tutor with responsibility for this Assessment Student’s first point of contact As above and Economics tutor
5. Assessment Report
6. Weighting 50% of module assessment
7. Size and/or time limits for assessment 2,500 words +/- 10%, excluding tables, graphs, footnotes, appendices and references
8. Deadline of submission
Week 7, Friday 6th of March 2026, 23:59 UK time
9. Arrangements for submission
Submit report electronically (via submission link on the
module’s Moodle page).
Your work must be submitted with the appropriate cover sheet which must confirm that the assignment is your own and has not been submitted for another assessment.
You are advised to keep your own copy of the assessment.
10. AI use AI must not be used in this assignment as the assessment aims to assess your own understanding of concepts and frameworks.
11. Assessment
Regulations All assessments are subject to the University Regulations.
12. The requirements for the assessment An analysis of the impact that the economic environment in countries has on your company’s activity in two countries of your choice.
13. Special instructions A. SPECIFICATIONS
1. Choose an existing company that produces or exports to two countries of your choice.
2. CHOOSE only ONE PRODUCT or a PRODUCT CATEGORY that your company sells in both of your chosen countries. Please note that companies may have a wide portfolio of goods and/or services, but you should only analyse only one of them in this report, so that your analysis may be feasible.
3. The analysis in your report must use the theoretical frameworks covered in this module and include:
a. A brief description of the company, and a clear statement of the product (category) that you chose to focus your analysis on in both countries.
b. An analysis of the market structure in which your company operates in the two countries.
c. A comparative analysis of the impact that the major macroeconomic indicators (listed in Section D below) have on company’s economic activity (costs, revenues and profits) in the two countries of your choice.
d. An analysis of the impact that monetary and fiscal policy instruments that are relevant to your company have on company’s economic activity (costs, revenues and profits) in the two countries of your choice.
e. An analysis of the impact that relevant foreign trade policy instruments, which derive from your two countries’ WTO and/or RTA memberships, has on company’s economic activity (costs, revenues and profits) in both countries.
B. MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS to be analysed for the past 10 available years.
1. GDP growth rate
2. GDP per capita, constant (USD) prices, PPP
3. Inflation rate
4. Unemployment rate (ILO measure)
5. Monetary Policy Interest Rate
6. General government balances (% of GDP)
7. General government gross debt (% of GDP)
8. Current Account Balance (% of GDP)
9. Exchange rates (Local Currency Units/USD). For USD use USD/EUR exchange rates.
We recommend that you use the IMF World Economic Outlook database to collect your data for most of these macroeconomic indicators, but other trusted sources can be accessed, such as Trading Economics and World Bank.
The use of tables, charts, graphs and diagrams is permitted, and it is part of the essay marking criteria (Report structure, presentation and references). However, all tables, charts, graphs and diagrams should be edited by you within your document. Do not submit any material which you cannot edit in the form in which it is submitted.
C. PROJECT 1 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Presentation: Arial 12 fonts, 1 ½ spacing, justified text
References: Use APA7 Referencing Style. Do not number references.
This Report should be submitted via the relevant links on the Moodle page.
Refer to your School’s guidance for referencing practice and the use of Turnitin.
14. Return of work and feedback Written feedback for this report will be provided within three
working weeks of submission in the form of a combination of
Turnitin marking rubric and written comments. This will be via the
Moodle page.
15. Assessment criteria This report is assessed by the marking criteria detailed in the
marking rubric at the end of this brief.
MARKING RUBRIC ASSESSMENT 1 – SOE11307
CRITERIA WEIGHTS
Brief description of the company and analysis of the market structure in which the company operates for the two countries 20%
Data collection (past 10 years of available data), comparative analysis of major macroeconomic indicators and impact on firm’s economic activity 30%
Analysis of monetary, fiscal and foreign trade policy instruments for the two countries and their impact on firm’s economic activity 40%
Report structure, presentation and references 10%