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Module Name:	Small Business Management
Module Code:	LSBM305
Level	6
Credit Value	30
Module Leader:	Achila Amarasinghe
Academic Year	2021-22

Item of Assessment	Portfolio
Weighting	This assessment is worth 60% of the module grade
Word Limit	3,000 words
Submission Deadline	Monday 4 April 2022, 3 pm
Acceptable Formats for Submission	Microsoft Word
Feedback and Provisional Grade¹	Feedback and provisional grades will normally be due 20 working days after the submission deadline
Resubmission Date	Friday 10 June 2022, 3 pm

Assessment 2 Details

Task

In this assessment, you will be undertaking a comprehensive research on any small business in your local area. You are required to critically analyse and evaluate different aspects of the business and to provide recommendations for the business based on your analysis of the gaps and growth potentials (as detailed below).

You will be presenting your analysis in a Padlet Portfolio which will contain both text and short audio/video presentations (see details below). Once you complete your analysis, you will hold an Investor Meeting with 2-3 other students to discuss and decide whether the company is worth investing in. You will then reflect on this meeting in the final task of this Portfolio.

Your Padlet Portfolio needs to contain the following section and address the following tasks:

Introduction

Introduce your selected small business with the following key information:

Name of business

1 The grade is provisional until confirmed by the relevant assessment board(s). Your work will be marked in grades rather than percentages. This is considered to deliver the most accurate and fair outcomes for students. Each assessment that you undertake will be assessed using the common grading system. Information about the grading system can be found in your Student Handbook, Section 13.

The Grade Criteria can be found in Appendix C of your Student Handbook.

When/Where was the business established?

What products/services does the business offer (products range)?

Which industry does the business operate in?

Who are the owners of the business?

Your response to this task can take a form of one of the following:

200 words or
- a 2-minute audio/video presentation or
- 100 words and 1-minute audio/video presentation

Small Business criteria

Justify why your selected business is categorised as a small business in the UK.

Identify the characteristics that make your selected small business successful.

Your response to this task can take a form of one of the following:

300 words or
- a 3-minute audio/video presentation or
- 150 words and 1.5-minute audio/video presentation

Gaps and growth potential analysis

Drawing upon academic literature, analyse any four of the following aspects of your chosen small business:

Small business ownership

Financial planning

Marketing a small business

Operations management

Leadership and teams

Growth strategies

Business law and regulatory environment

In your response, identify any gaps and growth potentials in each of the four areas. Your response to this task needs to take a form of 1,200 words and 5 min audio/video.

Recommendations

Provide recommendations based on the gaps and growth potentials identified in Task 3.

Demonstrate how will the company benefit from your recommendations.

Your response to this task can take a form of one of the following:

400 words or
- a 4-minute audio/video presentation or
- 200 words and 2-minute audio/video presentation

Conclusion

Produce a sound conclusion that highlights the main points covered in the work Your response to this task can take a form of one of the following:
- 200 words or
- a 2-minute audio/video presentation or
- 100 words and 1-minute audio/video presentation

Peer reflection

Upon completion of tasks 1-5, form a peer review group with 2-3 other students imagining that they are businesspeople interested in investing into the small business that you have been analysing.

All members of the group should share their Padlets with each other by Week 11 of the term.

In Week 12 workshop, you will hold Investor Meetings (i.e. group discussions) to answer the following questions:

Should we invest in this small business?
- If yes, what would be our offer and what would be our conditions?
- If no, why?

Your group will need to come to a unanimous decision so be prepared to negotiate.

Following your peer review meeting with your classmate, reflect on the experience of working in your group and write 200 words, or record a 2-minute audio/video presentation, describing the team dynamics and reflecting on this experience.

Add your reflection to your Padlet before submitting your work.

Additional Guidance

Your portfolio should be presented in Padlet (https://en-gb.padlet.com/). Your padlet based work could include captions, images, screenshots, slides & video/voice-over etc.

The total word count for this task is 3,000 words equivalent, which consist of 1,500 words of written work and 10 minutes audio/video presentation (equivalent to 1,500 words).

Additional guidance on using Padlet and submitting your work will be available on Canvas.

Harvard referencing system must be used throughout for your citations and reference list.

Submission requirements

You must submit your assignment by using the Turnitin gateway in the module’s Canvas site.

Please Note: When you submit you will be asked to confirm you have referred to the Submission Checklist (see Appendix 1) and the act of submitting your work electronically will be taken as an acceptance of the Declaration of Authorship (see Appendix 2).

Learning Outcomes for the assessment

This item of assessment covers the following learning outcomes. For the full list of learning outcomes for the module, please refer to the Module Study Guide.

Distinguish between business ideas and opportunities.

Identify the essential ingredients to being a successful entrepreneur.

Assess the characteristics of successful small businesses.

Critically analyse and evaluate the entrepreneurial process through which business ideas may be evaluated.

Critically discuss, analyse and evaluate the benefits and potential drawbacks of owning a small business.

Identify and describe team building dynamics.

Appendix 1: Submission Checklist

Have you checked Canvas messages/announcements for any additional/final details of the assessment?

Are you submitting in the correct submission area e.g. if it is a resubmission of your

second assignment it should be ‘AS2R’?

Make sure you are submitting the correct final version of your work.

Have you kept to the word limit? Remember, anything greater than 10% above the word count will not be marked.

Have you addressed the assessment requirements as outlined in the Assessment Brief?

Have you spell checked and proofread your work?

Is your work formatted correctly and consistently?

Are you submitting a document in the correct format?

Is your work written in an appropriate academic style?

Have you checked your citations and Reference List/Bibliography?

Have you submitted your work to get a similarity report to check you have paraphrased where required?

Have you read the Declaration of Authorship (Appendix 2)?

Appendix 2: Declaration of Authorship

By submitting this work electronically to Bloomsbury Institute and the University of Northampton, I confirm that I have read and understood the Declaration and Definitions below:

Declaration of Authorship:

I hold a copy of this assignment which can be produced if the original is lost/damaged.

This assignment is my original work and no part of it has been copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement has been made.

No part of this assignment has been written for me by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised and as detailed in the Assessment Brief.

I have not previously submitted this work for any other course/module.

Where applicable, I have included a declaration confirming external editorial or proof-reading services (see Appendix 3).

Definitions

I understand that:

Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is one’s own. It is a form of cheating and is a serious academic offence which may lead to expulsion. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data, and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited.

Collusion is working with someone else on an assessment task which is intended to be wholly your own work.

Contract cheating/Commissioning is where you contract out an academic assessment to writers and purchase back the finished work and submit it as your own.

Duplication/Replication is submitting the same material more than once for the purposes of obtaining academic credit.

Fabrication refers specifically to the falsification of data, information or citations in an academic exercise, typically an assignment. This includes false excuses for missing deadlines and false claims to have submitted work. It may be specifically referred to as falsification.

My completed assignment is submitted and checked for plagiarism through the use of plagiarism detection software called Turnitin.

Please note: Submitting work which is not your own and/or cheating in exams can be considered as fraud2 and handled in accordance with the University of Northampton’s Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy. Penalties can include:

Reduction in grade for assignment.

Grade for module reduced to AG [fail for academic misconduct] and right to repeat module withdrawn.

Termination from studies.

Further information on plagiarism can be found in your Student Handbook, Section 13.

2 If a student is suspected of commissioning (e.g. paying someone to write an assignment for them), this could be classed as fraud under student disciplinary procedures, separate to academic misconduct procedures. If proven, the consequences would be severe, including removal from their course of study.

Appendix 3: Use of external editorial or proof-reading services

The University of Northampton’s Academic Integrity and Misconduct Policy (Sections 4.10 – 4.14) provides clear guidance on the use of proof-readers to check your work.

What you need to know:

You can ask your tutors or our Learning Enhancement and Employability (LEE) Team (lee@bil.ac.uk) for advice and support on how to proof your work.

Proof-readers should not make live changes to your work. They should only indicate where possible changes could be made.

A proof-reader should not change the meaning of your work in any way.

If a proof-reader’s comments or amendments do change the meaning of your work, this may be deemed as academic misconduct.

If you do use a proof-reader you must declare this clearly when you submit your work. The declaration should be on the first page (cover page) of your assignment.

Example declaration:

“A proof-reader has helped me with this assignment. The proof-reader was my friend/name of proof-reading service/a family member/other. I have kept a copy of my original work with comments from the proof-reader.”

For more information please go to the policy itself, which is available in the Quality Enhancement Manual on our website.

Appendix 4 Extensions and Mitigating Circumstances

Information on Extensions and Mitigating Circumstances can be found in the Student Handbook,

Section 13.

Applications for extensions and mitigating circumstances, with supporting evidence (such as medical certificates) should be made through the Student Self-service Portal (SSP).

The University of Northampton’s Mitigating Circumstances Policy document can be accessed through our Quality and Enhancement Manual: QEM Section 3: All Policies and Procedures.

Word Limits

All written assignments include clear guidance on the maximum amount that should be written in order to address the requirements of the assessment task (a ‘word limit’).

If the submission exceeds the word limit by more than 10%, the submission will only be marked up to and including the additional 10%. Anything over this will not be included in the final grade for the item of assessment.

Abstracts, reference lists, indented quotations, and footnotes are excluded from any word limit requirements.

In-text citations, embedded quotations, and all headings and titles are included in the word limit. Where a submission is notably under the word limit, the full submission will be marked on the extent to which the requirements of the assessment task have been met. Generally speaking, submissions under the word limit fall short of the requirements of the assessment