Special Regulations : Examination Regulations

1. Candidates must follow a course of instruction in Financial Strategy for at least twelve months and not more than fourteen months. Candidates must complete:

(a) Four core courses, and satisfy the examiners in the assessment associated with each course. The four core courses are:
1. Strategy;
2. Finance I;
3. Finance II;
4. Corporate Valuation.
Details can be found in the course handbook.
(b) Courses may be assessed by one or more of the following: written examinations, individual assignments, and group assignments, subject to the constraint that at least 50 per cent of marks in any course must be assigned to individual work.
(c) A project report not exceeding 10,000 words on a topic agreed by the examiners. Three typewritten/wordprocessed copies of the project report must be submitted to the Chair of Examiners for the Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy, c/o Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, not later than 12 noon on the date stipulated in the year in which the written examination is taken. The submission date will be published by the Course Director before the first Monday of the first term in which students commence the course. All material submitted for the project report shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the candidate indicating that it is the candidate's own work.

2. Candidates may be examined viva voce on any assessment, the project report, or both.

3. The examiners may award a distinction for excellence in the whole examination.

4. Candidates who fail an assessment may be re-examined on not more than one occasion which normally shall be within one year of their initial failure.