Finance Applied Project

Synopsis

FIN599 Finance Applied Project enables graduate students to conduct a practice-oriented project to address real world issues in financial areas. The course requires students to put together knowledge and skills from various courses in the programme. The project should be carried out in a practical learning environment and lead to findings, recommendations and/or products that are relevant to finance industry. Students are expected to work closely with their supervisors to craft a suitable project topic and carry out the project individually. The project topic has to be related to finance.

Level: 5
Credit Units: 10
Presentation Pattern: EVERY REGULAR SEMESTER

Topics

Introduction and the nature of applied project
Topics formulation
Ethical issues in research and/or applied project design
Measurement, validity, and reliability
Literature review
Project design
Project proposal writing
Statistical methods and software
Data collection
Analysis and recommendations
Application development
Project report writing

Learning Outcome

Formulate clear questions for applied projects that address real-world problems
Evaluate the relevance, value and sufficiency of existing literature and solutions
Construct the project design
Assemble information and data from relevant sources and knowledge domains
Analyse the data using appropriate techniques and assess the findings, make recommendations where suitable
Develop and implement solution in various forms, including apps and/or dapps (decentralised applications)
Compose the project proposal and final report
Design, develop and implement solutions to address real-world issues

Part-time Programmes

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Finance Applied Project