Assignment title: Risk Management in a Multinational Manufacturing Company
a) Outline and explain the main risks a large multinational manufacturing
company is likely to face.
(20 marks)
b) Explain the strategies available to the company to control currency risk. In
your answer consider both ways in which the company can rearrange its
business activities to reduce risk and also ways in which it can use financial
markets to reduce risk.
(50 marks)
c) Critically discuss the risk management strategies discussed in b) and evaluate
their usefulness and limitations and potential difficulties in their introduction into
the company's management practices
(30 marks)
Requirement: Your assignment must be word processed. 2,500 words
maximum (note: the cover page and any tables or graphs in the appendix are not
included in the word count)
This assignment accounts for 50% of the total marks available for the module.
The aim of this Assignment is to examine the following learning outcomes:
Identify different types of underlying risk in a business context.
Critically discuss risk management strategies and critically evaluate their
usefulness and limitations and potential difficulties in their introduction into
an organisation's management practices.
Grading Descriptors for the Assignment
Knowledge and understanding:
Identification and application of appropriate discipline-based knowledge to business,
managerial or organisational issues. The discipline-based knowledge is that associated
with the named award.
Exemplary Achievement: 90-100%
There is an exemplary display of knowledge, understanding and exploration of
the main body of knowledge associated with the named award. Attains the very
highest standards of scholarship that can be expected of an undergraduate
submission.
Outstanding Achievement: 80-89%
There is an outstanding display of knowledge, understanding and exploration of
the main body of knowledge associated with the named award. Attains some of
the highest standards of scholarship that can be expected of an undergraduate
submission
Excellent Achievement: 70-79%
There is an excellent display of knowledge, understanding and exploration of the
main body of knowledge associated with the named award. Mostly attains the
highest standards of scholarship that can be expected of an undergraduate
submission
Good to Very Good Achievement: 60-69%
There is a good to very good display of display of knowledge, understanding and
exploration of the main body of knowledge associated with the named award.
Attains good standards of scholarship
Satisfactory Achievement: 50-59%
Subject knowledge, understanding and exploration is satisfactory, but there are
some noticeable gaps in the appreciation of the main body of knowledge
associated with the named award. Attains competent standards of scholarship
Adequate, but weak Achievement: 40-49%
Evidence of subject knowledge, understanding and exploration is limited, and
appreciation of the main body of knowledge associated with the named award is
partial and incomplete. Attains very limited standards of scholarship
Unsatisfactory Achievement: 30-39%
Evidence of subject knowledge, understanding and exploration is extremely
limited, and appreciation of the main body of knowledge associated with the
named award is unsatisfactory. Some strengths are displayed but these are
outweighed by several weak features including the standard of scholarship
Very unsatisfactory Achievement: 1-29%
The work does not meet expected levels of subject knowledge, understanding
and exploration and does not display appreciation of the main body of
knowledge associated with the named award. Any strengths of the work are
heavily outweighed by its weaknesses including a very unsatisfactory standard of
scholarship
Intellectual skills:
Analysis and drawing of reasoned conclusions concerning structured problems from a
particular data set.
Exemplary Achievement: 90-100%
There is exemplary use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory and
other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and drawing of
reasoned conclusions concerning structured problems relevant to the discipline
associated with the named award
Outstanding Achievement: 80-89%
There is outstanding use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory and
other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and drawing of
reasoned conclusions concerning structured problems relevant to the discipline
associated with the named award
Excellent Achievement: 70-79%
There is excellent use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory and
other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and drawing of
reasoned conclusions concerning structured problems relevant to the discipline
associated with the named award
Good to Very Good Achievement: 60-69%
There is good to very good use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts,
theory and other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and
drawing of reasoned conclusions concerning structured problems relevant to the
discipline associated with the named award
Satisfactory Achievement: 50-59%
There is satisfactory use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory and
other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and drawing of
reasoned conclusions
Adequate, but Weak Achievement: 40-49%
There is adequate use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory and
other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis but the drawing
of reasoned conclusions is under developed
Unsatisfactory Achievement: 30-39%
There is unsatisfactory use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory
and other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and, as a
result, the conclusions are limited
Very Unsatisfactory Achievement: 1-29%
There is limited use and application of evidence, ideas, concepts, theory and
other relevant information and artefacts relevant to the analysis and, as a result,
the conclusions are unconvincing
Practical and professional skills:
Analysis, interpretation and management of data using a range of standard tools.
Exemplary Achievement: 90-100%
There is evidence of an exemplary standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a wide range of tools that are regarded as standard in
the discipline associated with the named award
Outstanding Achievement: 80-89%
There is evidence of an outstanding standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a wide range of tools that are regarded as standard in
the discipline associated with the named award
Excellent Achievement: 70-79%
There is evidence of an excellent standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a wide range of tools that are regarded as standard in
the discipline associated with the named award
Good to Very Good Achievement: 60-69%
There is evidence of a good to very good standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a wide range of tools that are regarded as standard in
the discipline associated with the named award
Satisfactory Achievement: 50-59%
There is evidence of a satisfactory standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a range of tools that are regarded as standard in the
discipline associated with the named award
Adequate, but weak Achievement: 40-49%
There is evidence of an adequate standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a range of tools that are regarded as standard in the
discipline associated with the named award
Unsatisfactory Achievement: 30-39%
There is evidence of a limited standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a narrow range of tools that are regarded as standard
in the discipline associated with the named award
Very unsatisfactory Achievement: 1-29%
There is evidence of a very limited standard of analysis, interpretation and
management of data using a narrow range of tools that are regarded as standard
in the discipline associated with the named award