Coursework assignment

You are required to write an essay of around 1,500 - 2,000 words on the following topic:

Explain how the deposit-taking and non-deposit-taking financial intermediaries and the financial markets reconcile the disparate needs of surplus and deficit units in the economy.

Guidelines to completing your assignment

Presentation

Your essay should be easy to read, logical and well-structured. Although not essential, it would be preferable for it to be typed/word processed. However, if it is hand-written it will not lose marks unless it is illegible and/or untidy.

Your essay should include an introduction, a main section where the relevant points are explained and discussed, and a concluding section. Any illustrations can be included in the main section or in appendices.

Discussion and illustration
Draw on material from the relevant units in the module. You should not reproduce sections of text from the units or from the suggested further reading at the end of these units. Where specific information is reproduced its source should be acknowledged.

For a mark above a basic pass you should provide explanation, discussion and illustration which you have acquired from your own experience or from additional reading sources. You should include a bibliography of all references and reading sources.

There will be some flexibility in the marking of the essay in order to give credit for originality and quality of explanation, discussion and illustration.