Use any of these companies
Amazon
The Coca-Cola Company
Disney
ASSESSMENT BRIEF
Subject
Code and Title ECON6001
Economic Principles
Assessment Assessment 4 – Report
Individual/Group Individual
Length 1000 words
Learning
Outcomes a) Analyse, individually and in teams,
the role of
fundamental
micro- and macroeconomic principles in
business
decision-making
b) Analyse the impact of industry
competition on
individual
businesses
c) Analyse, from an economic and
ethical perspective,
business
behaviours in a national and global context
d) Analyse the impact of monopolies and
monopolistic
competition
within an industry
e) Evaluate the impact on industry of
manipulations of
economic
factors by the public sector
f) Communicate complex economic
concepts to
business
professionals
Submission
Weighting 20%
Total
Marks 100 marks
Context:
This written assignment will cover content from modules 3
and 4 (imperfect competition)
Imperfect competition exists whenever a market violates the
abstract tenets of perfect competition Since all real markets exist outside of
the plane of the perfect competition model, each can be classified as
imperfect These markets exist in the form of structures such as monopolies,
oligopolies and monopolistic competitions
Instructions:
You are required to analyse market structure of any chosen
organisation within a country Your analysis should include all characteristics
of that particular market structure, such as:
? Number of
sellers and buyers
? Type of
product
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? Entry to
and exit conditions from the market
? Short run
vs long run profits
? Price
determination
Submission Instructions:
⢠Include a
cover sheet that contains your subject name, full name and student ID number
⢠Clearly
indicate question number and part thereof for each of your answers
⢠Submit as
a Word document only Do not submit a pdf
⢠When
inserting diagrams such as a graph the following are acceptable:
o neatly
handâdrawn diagrams inserted into the document as a picture
o diagrams
copied from a text book or other source as long as the source is correctly
attributed (Wikipedia and Investopedia not acceptable sources)
o diagrams
drawn using a drawing package that produces images acceptable to Word
⢠Use the
APA 6th Edition Referencing style
⢠Reference
list, appendices and calculations are not included in word count
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Learning Rubric: Assessment 4
Fail Pass Credit Distinction High
Distinction
Assessment
Attributes 0-49% 50-65% 66-75% 76-85% 86-100%
(Unacceptable) (Functional) (Proficient) (Advanced) (Exceptional)
Highly
developed A
sophisticated
understanding of
the field
Knowledge
or understanding of the field
Thorough
knowledge or or
discipline/s
understanding
of the field or discipline/s
understanding
of the field Systematically
and critically
or
discipline Discriminates between
Limited
understanding of or
discipline/s Supports discriminates
between
Resembles
a recall or assertion of personal
Knowledge
and required
concepts and personal
opinion and assertion
of personal
summary
of key ideas opinion and information
understanding
of economic knowledge information
substantiated opinion
and information
Often
conflates/confuses substantiated by robust
concepts Key components of
the by
evidence from the substantiated
by robust
assertion
of personal evidence from the
60 assignment
are not research/course
materials evidence
from the
opinion
with information research/course materials
addressed Demonstrates
a capacity to research/course
materials
substantiated
by evidence and extended
reading
explain
and apply relevant and
extended reading
from
the research/course Well
demonstrated
concepts Mastery
of concepts and
materials capacity to explain and
application to
new
apply
relevant concepts
situations/further
learning
Highly
sophisticated and
creative
analysis, synthesis
Demonstrated
analysis and Thoroughly
developed and of
new with existing
Analysis
and application creative analysis and knowledge
Limited
synthesis and synthesis
of new Well-developed
analysis
with
synthesis of new synthesis with application Strong
application by way
analysis knowledge
with and
synthesis with
knowledge
related to of
pretested models and/or of
pretested models and/or
Limited application application
of
economic
concepts independently developed independently
developed
application/recommendati Shows
the ability to recommendations linked to
20 models
and justified models
Recommendations
ons
based upon analysis interpret
relevant analysis/synthesis
recommendations linked to are
clearly justified based
information
and literature
analysis/synthesis on the
analysis/synthesis
Applying
knowledge to new
situations/other
cases
Use
of academic and Poorly
written with errors Written
according to Well written and adheres to Very well written and Expertly
written and
in
spelling, grammar academic
genre (eg with the
academic genre (eg adheres
to the academic adheres
to the academic
discipline
conventions and
Demonstrates
inconsistent introduction,
conclusion or with introduction, genre genre
sources
of evidence
use
of good quality, summary)
and has accurate conclusion or summary) Consistently
demonstrates Demonstrates
expert use of
20
credible
and relevant spelling,
grammar, Demonstrates consistent expert
use of good quality, high
quality, credible and
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research
sources to support sentence and
paragraph use of high
quality, credible credible and
relevant relevant research
sources
and
develop ideas construction and relevant research research sources to support to support and develop
There
are mistakes in using Demonstrates
consistent sources to support
and and develop appropriate arguments and position
the APA
6th Edition use of credible and
relevant develop ideas arguments and statements statements Shows
Referencing
style research sources to
support There are no mistakes in Shows evidence of reading extensive evidence of
and
develop ideas, but using the APA 6th
Edition beyond the key reading reading beyond the key
these
is not always explicit Referencing
style There are no mistakes in reading There are no
or
well developed using
the APA 6th Edition mistakes
in using the APA
There
are no mistakes in Referencing
style 6th Edition Referencing
using
the APA 6th Edition style
Referencing
style
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