LO1 Evaluate a business idea and prepare a business strategy and competitive analysis for your business

Module code and title:

Business Plan and Analysis

Module leader:

Assignment No. and type:

Written Report - Business Plan 2000 words

Presentation slides 500 words

Assessment weighting:

Written report 80%

Presentation slides 20%

Submission time and date:

Target feedback time and date:

Three weeks from the date of final submission

Assignment task

The Summative Assessment will be on a Micro business idea and converting this into a viable business plan. The rationale for this assignment is the securing of funding for the business micro business idea from a potential investor. You will need to make recommendations on how to achieve funding, and do so based on demonstrating understanding, analysis and evaluation of the key elements involved in the business plan.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO1

Evaluate a business idea and prepare a business strategy and competitive analysis for your business

LO2

Analyse and prepare a financial strategy for your plan taking into account the business risks you may encounter.

LO3

Critically review your business plan in the role of a potential investor.

LO4

Propose recommendations that would strengthen your business plan to achieve the future outcomes.

Task requirements

Description of the task – what you are being asked to do:

Business Plan: You are required to make a pitch to a potential investor to secure funding for your micro business idea. The scenarios below will align with Learning Outcomes 1, 2,3 & 4 maximum of 2500 words overall:

Referencing and research requirements

Please reference your work according to the Harvard style; you can access guidance on this here: https://libguides.uos.ac.uk/academic/referencing/Harvard

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s grading descriptors.

This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 5

Submission details

This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you during class time).

• Please ensure that your business plan has been saved in an appropriate file format Microsoft Word only. Presentation slides on PowerPoint but must be attached in your appendix at the end of your business plan. Some financial accounts can be done on Excel but must be attached in your word document. DO NOT upload your assignment in pages format. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.

• You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.

• Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment

• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: https://www.uos.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Academic-Misconduct-Policy.pdf. In