A sustainable finance assignment asks you to apply ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) integration, green bond valuation, or materiality analysis to a specific company or investment decision, and evaluate the results with genuine scepticism. The area is packed with frameworks and slogans; markers reward students who move beyond ESG-as-marketing to quantify the actual financial impact — … Read more

A bond valuation assignment asks you to price a bond given a required yield, back-solve the yield when the price is given, and quantify the bond’s sensitivity to interest rate changes using duration and convexity. The maths is more forgiving than derivatives — no distributional assumptions — but three specific slips cost most of the … Read more

A mergers and acquisitions assignment asks you to value a target company, quantify the synergies from combining it with the acquirer, decide whether the deal should be structured in cash or stock, and test whether it creates or destroys shareholder value. The maths — DCF valuation, synergy PV, accretion/dilution — is straightforward once you know … Read more

A behavioural finance assignment asks you to explain and evaluate real-world financial behaviour using psychology-based frameworks — cognitive biases, prospect theory, and documented market anomalies — rather than the rational-agent assumptions of classical finance. Markers reward students who name the specific bias correctly, cite empirical evidence, and engage seriously with what behavioural findings mean for … Read more

A financial modelling assignment tests two skills at once: the finance (DCF, valuation, forecasting) and the modelling craft (clean Excel structure, transparent assumptions, working sensitivity analysis). Students who focus only on the finance often build models that produce a right answer for the wrong reasons — hardcoded numbers, no error checks, opaque logic. Markers reward … Read more

A risk management assignment in finance asks you to identify the risks facing a portfolio, institution or trading book, measure those risks using techniques like Value at Risk (VaR), Expected Shortfall, and stress testing, and recommend mitigation. Markers reward students who compute VaR correctly and — critically — explain what it does not capture. The … Read more

A portfolio management assignment asks you to build, evaluate, or critique an investment portfolio using Modern Portfolio Theory (Markowitz), CAPM, and the efficient frontier. The maths — expected return, portfolio variance, beta-based expected return — is straightforward once you avoid the covariance trap most students fall into. The higher marks are decided by whether you … Read more

A derivatives assignment asks you to price and interpret contracts whose value derives from an underlying asset — options, futures, forwards or swaps. The maths intimidates most students, but the maths is not where the marks are decided. Markers reward students who can explain why a formula is being applied, name the assumptions it rests … Read more

A finance reflective essay asks you to analyse your own experience — a placement, a group project, a trading simulation, a professional skills module — through an established reflective framework (most commonly Gibbs or Kolb), and connect what you experienced back to finance theory and your own development as a finance professional. The format confuses … Read more

An MBA finance assignment is not an undergraduate finance assignment with a longer word count — it is a different standard of work. The brief expects you to integrate financial analysis with corporate strategy, write to a board-ready level of conciseness, engage with conflicting evidence, and recommend under uncertainty. Markers reward students who can quantify … Read more