Financial Communications

Structure Type: Course
Code: LTVVO106
Type: Free choise
Level: Bachelor
Credits: 2.0 points
Responsible Teacher: Råtts, Saija
Teacher Team: Råtts, Saija
Language of Instruction: Finnish

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to recognize the special features of stock and incorporate company’s financial communication. Students will be competent in producing texts in financial communications and analysing them and producing presentations about them.

Student's Workload

Total work load 54 h:
web based studies and assignments about 30 h,
autonomous studies 20 h

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

1. year communication studies

Contents

- Security markets law as a support of financial communication
- Stock markets and incorporate company’s communication
- Financial communication
- Investor communications
- Financial reports
- Corporate governance

Recommended or Required Reading

Material provided by lecturer.

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Web based learning

Assessment Criteria

1: The student is not very actively taking part of web based conversations. The student is able to take a stance on/answer questions which the lecturer has provided but the student is not well at all or weakly capable to bring out the familiarization to the materials and literature and the ability to recognize the special features of financial communications. The student is able to produce financial texts but the structure of text is disconnected and incoherent. Communication is sender-oriented and the argumentation is biased and scant and illustration is scant and irrelevant.

3: The student is actively taking part of web based conversations. The student is able to take a stance on/answer questions which the lecturer has provided and the student is capable to bring out the familiarization to the materials and literature and the ability to recognize the special features of financial communications. The student is able to produce financial texts and the structure of text is mainly clear and coherent. Argumentation is quite unbiased and believable and illustration is relevant. The student takes the goal, receiver and the situation into account to some extent in their communication.

5: The student is very actively taking part of web based conversations. The student is able to take a stance on/answer questions which the lecturer has provided and the student is very well capable to bring out the familiarization to the materials and literature and the ability to recognize the special features of financial communications. The student is able to produce financial texts and the text follows the structure characteristic of the genre; text is logic, clear and coherent. Argumentation is unbiased, taking different viewpoints into account, and convincing and illustration is relevant, effective and considered (e.g. choice of words). The goal, receiver and the situation are taken into account in an excellent and convincing manner. Interaction in communication is highly skillful.

Assessment Methods

Web based learning, assignments and taking part of web discussions.

Work Placement

No workplacement.

Further Information

Web based studies. Max. 25 students.

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