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    1) The document announces a Financial Statement Analysis Quiz to take place during one of the scheduled class sessions. It will involve analyzing the financial statements of an unknown company and answering multiple choice questions for points. 2) Students have the option to work in groups of up to 5 during the class but must submit their own individual answers through Blackboard. 3) Additional points can be earned by watching an educational video and answering simple post-video questions correctly. These combined points can be used to curve exam grades in later sessions, with any excess points not applicable to curving being lost.

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    1) The document announces a Financial Statement Analysis Quiz to take place during one of the scheduled class sessions. It will involve analyzing the financial statements of an unknown company and answering multiple choice questions for points. 2) Students have the option to work in groups of up to 5 during the class but must submit their own individual answers through Blackboard. 3) Additional points can be earned by watching an educational video and answering simple post-video questions correctly. These combined points can be used to curve exam grades in later sessions, with any excess points not applicable to curving being lost.

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    1) The document announces a Financial Statement Analysis Quiz to take place during one of the scheduled class sessions. It will involve analyzing the financial statements of an unknown company and answering multiple choice questions for points. 2) Students have the option to work in groups of up to 5 during the class but must submit their own individual answers through Blackboard. 3) Additional points can be earned by watching an educational video and answering simple post-video questions correctly. These combined points can be used to curve exam grades in later sessions, with any excess points not applicable to curving being lost.

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    1) The document announces a Financial Statement Analysis Quiz to take place during one of the scheduled class sessions. It will involve analyzing the financial statements of an unknown company and answering multiple choice questions for points. 2) Students have the option to work in groups of up to 5 during the class but must submit their own individual answers through Blackboard. 3) Additional points can be earned by watching an educational video and answering simple post-video questions correctly. These combined points can be used to curve exam grades in later sessions, with any excess points not applicable to curving being lost.

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    30427 – MODULE 2

    AY 2021 / 2022
    Financial Statement Analysis Quiz
    DIRECTIONS

    TO: ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED

    A. PREFACE
    To make more efficient, engaging, and fruitful the Financial Statement Analysis Classes (sessions
    from 11 to 15 of the syllabus) we have decided to arrange the way through which the last session
    of these five will be given and assessed, in a way that we think will surely have advantages for
    you on both: knowledge and grade. Moreover, you can get points also watching a video, as
    explained below.

    First of all, the “FSA Quiz” is described along the following lines.

    B. GENERAL INFO

    a) All students enrolled in the class can participate to the FSA Quiz (second year, third year…)
    b) The session in which the FSA Quiz will take place is n° 15 of your classes lectures timetable.
    It is not possible to make the FSA quiz in advance or prior the class scheduled.
    c) It is not possible to attend the FSA Quiz in a class different from the one you are assigned to.
    d) The Quiz will consist of four different sets of questions, each given via Blackboard on a step-
    by-step basis (see below for more details). Questions are the same for everyone during the quiz.
    e) It is possible to attend the class in-distance (live Collaborate session) and answer questions
    in-distance.
    f) During the lecture, either if you are attending in class or remotely, working in group is
    appreciated and advisable. A maximum number of five students working together will be
    permitted. Though, interaction is allowed between groups (hence if you would like to work in
    six, get divided in two groups of three that can interact during the session). We want to stimulate
    teamwork, but keep in mind that we are in a single Velodromo classroom and too noise may
    be really confusing.
    g) Groups are to be formed on your own, at your own discretion (i.e. it’s not the professor
    choosing). Groups are not to be communicated in any manner (i.e. you don’t need to inform the
    instructor in class on the names of the people participating to your group). The only task of the
    instructor is to check that, ultimately, too many people don’t work together, because the
    rationale of the FSA Quiz is to have at the same time work in team, but also a consistent
    engagement at an individual level.
    h) VERY IMPORTANT: notwithstanding the fact that students can work in groups, answers
    to the FSA Quiz Questions must be given in Blackboard INDIVIDUALLY during the
    session. Remember to bring your laptop/tablet to provide the answers.
    i) A total of 1.8 points1 will be awarded via a number of closed-ended questions given during
    the session, each question worth 0.1 or 0.2 points. Each question is autonomous, so there is
    not a minimum threshold to “pass” and get points (i.e. you can score also 0.10 out of 1.80).
    j) In addition to the FSA Quiz session described above, for fifteen days, starting from early
    April and after a dedicated announcement, a video will be made available on Blackboard
    (“Peviani case”): watching the whole video and answering to VERY SIMPLE questions
    related to the video wil give you the opportunity to get extra 0.2 points. These very simple

    1
    This document overrides the specific provision of the Syllabus according to which the FSA Quiz would award 1,50
    points.
    questions are given to be sure that you watch the video and don’t play it in background doing
    other stuffs in the meantime. The questions are given during, or at the end, of the video (this
    is something that still needs to be defined on the backend side but you will clearly see them).
    k) These (up to) two points (1.8 + 0.2) will generate a benefit for you students, as follows. If, in
    one (or more) exam sessions, the grades will be curved upwards, the FSA quiz points will
    be used to curve grades. Any point exceeding the curving provided for that exam session
    will be lost. Any point below the curving provided for that exam will not be assigned. If
    an exam is not curved, no FSA Quiz points will be assigned.

    Example 1. Mark scores 1.70 /2.00 FSA Quiz Points. Mark sits for the exam in May 2022 and
    passes with 25.6745 / 31.00. The professor applies a total maximum + 1 curving. As Mark
    scored 1.70 in the FSA Quiz, Mark benefits of the + 1 point given for the curving and his final
    grade is 26.6745 which is then rounded to 27. The exceeding 0.70 scored in the FSA Quiz by
    Mark and unused for the curving goes lost.

    Example 2. Pamela scores 0.60 /2.00 FSA Quiz Points. Pamela sits for the exam in June 2022
    and passes with 25.6745 / 31.00. The professor applies a total maximum + 2 curving.
    Nevertheless, as Pamela scored only 0.60 in the FSA Quiz, Pamela benefits only of a + 0.60
    curving, so her final grade is 26.2745 which is then rounded to 26.

    l) Obviously, being a curving, points cannot be refused after the exam, if the same exam is
    curved (see Q&A page 11 Syllabus).
    m) the “FSA Quiz Curving Points” will be valid (i.e. they may be used in case of curving) in the
    following exam sessions: 26/05/2022; 15/06/2022; 25/08/2022; January/February 2023
    (exact date not available yet, usually a day between Jan 25 and Feb 6).
    n) In any possible scenario (absence, failure, withdraw) occurring in one exam session, the “FSA
    Quiz Curving Points” are still valid (i.e. they will be used in case of curving) in the
    subsequent sessions.

    C. THE PROJECT

    BEFORE CLASSES
     Study the slides on Financial Statement Analysis and attend the classes where the first two cases
    are discussed (although no points are awarded, sessions 13 and 14 can be a good training).

    DURING CLASS
     Each class will be asked to perform a financial statement analysis of a different company.
     The company will NOT be announced in advance, but instead only during the session.
     The FSA Quiz session will be divided as follows:
    Sector of activity of the company
    Analysis of the company’s financial statement
    Ratio analysis of the company
    Comparison with a competitor

     Instructors will briefly introduce each step, pointing out actions required, time available and
    other useful tips; each quiz will be then released, one at a time; and after each quiz, a short
    debriefing and explanation will be provided.
     The total points for the FSA Quiz Session in class is 1.8 points, which will be allocated by the
    professor on a class-by-class basis between the four items mentioned above.
    AFTER CLASSES
     Watch the video on the Peviani case, which will be available for 15 days and duly announced.
    After finishing the whole video and answering correctly the simple questions given, you will be
    awarded 0.2 points.
     After all the above, a questionnaire will be spreaded, due to the fact that this is a very-first-time
    experiment, and we would like to receive your opinion on it (both Peviani and in-class case). A
    consistent (at least 50% of the students participating to the quiz), honest and polite feedback
    is expected. (so please don’t be shy to express your negative opinion, just please, as usual, be
    polite and give suggestions to improve this new assessment method).

    FEW ADDITIONAL INFO:


     Questions will be easy and straightforward.
     We don’t expect any possible different answer to the ones we will give you but if, on a genuine
    and constructive basis, you have any ideas you want to submit to the professors (example: you
    have a different interpretation of a ratio), feel free to do it at the end of the lecture. From that
    moment on, the FSA Quiz will be ended2.
     Finally, remember the goal for us on this is twofold: making sure you get REAL hands-on
    experience, as it will happen in your REAL job (“download the F/S of company XYZ and tell me the
    main information quickly, because in one hour we meet the client and we need to know everything on
    them!”); get some extra points.

    GOOD LUCK!
    Xiaoxi, Lynn, Roberto and Luca

    2
    This means that, for example, no claims can be submitted in June, stating that in the FSA Quiz Session held in March,
    question 16 answer was “true” but “Dear Professor, I reviewed the F/S of the Company and actually it could also be
    false” so you claim you deserve a 0.10 additional curving point.

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