Module Six Journal

FIN 320 Module Six Journal Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

Risk and return go together. You must understand this relationship to make informed financial decisions. This applies when you make personal investment decisions or when you’re investing excess cash for a business. In this journal assignment, you will explore the risk-return relationship when investing in stocks in both of these roles.

Directions

Write a journal discussing risk and return as it relates to investing in stocks.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

• Investment Risk: Explain key risks associated with investing in stocks.
• Investment Return: Discuss events that can cause the price of a stock to increase or decrease.
• Risk-Return Relationship: Explain the relationship between risk and return and how this relationship affects stock-investment decisions. Use examples to support your claims.
• Reflection: Describe how you would make stock-investment decisions in your personal life. Also talk about how your decision-making process might change if you needed to make stock-investment decisions for a business.

What to Submit

Your submission should be a 4- to 5-paragraph Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Module Six Journal Rubric

Criteria	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (70%)	Not Complete (0%)	Value
Investment Risk	Explains key risks associated with investing in stocks	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining in more detail the key risks associated with investing in stocks	Does not attempt criterion	21
Investment Return	Discusses events that can cause the price of a stock to increase or decrease	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include discussing in more detail the events that can cause the price of a stock to increase or decrease	Does not attempt criterion	21
Risk-Return Relationship	Explains the relationship between risk and return and how this relationship affects stock-investment decisions, using examples to support claims	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining in more detail the relationship between risk and return and how this relationship affects stock-investment decisions, using examples to support claims	Does not attempt criterion	22
Reflection	Describes how personal stock-investment decisions would be made and talks about how the decision-making process would change if the decisions were being made for a business	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing in more detail how personal stock-investment decisions would be made and how the decision-making process would change if the decisions were being made for a business	Does not attempt criterion	21
Articulation of Response	Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability	Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas	10
Citations and Attributions	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few to no minor errors	Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors	Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution	5
Total:				100%

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