Master thesis seminar (3) Iveta Palečková Vice-dean for Science and Research Department of Finance and Accounting SLU-znacka-OPF-EN.png Information about description of FT IS SU explanation Insertion description into IS • •Dean's Instruction No. 03/2020 - Description of Final Thesis •https://www.slu.cz/opf/en/file/cul/ba7dbd51-f178-4a50-9ef6-4107aa301934 • •Dean's Instruction No. 05/2020 - Description of Final Theses (SFE in winter semester) •https://www.slu.cz/opf/en/file/cul/a429fe31-9e9d-4cdc-9a66-110feecf31d1 • •Dean's Instruction No. 2/2020 - Editing, Publishing and Storing Final Theses •https://www.slu.cz/opf/en/file/cul/3b2545b6-e660-4b0b-93a9-14c082877e86 • Dean‘s instruction •till October 30, student after consultation with a supervisor must complete and insert FT description into IS •till December 1, departments must finalize description printing + signatures (supervisor, guarantor and dean) •from the beginning of January students have to sign printed descriptions at departments, 2 copies will be a part of the thesis •till May 7 students have to submit the thesis at the department (2 hardcover copies of FT and upload digital FT into IS) • •This schedule is valid for the students graduating in summer semester. • •June 2021 – state final exam and defense of the thesis • • • Schedule of Master’s thesis elaboration and defense Schedule of Master’s thesis elaboration •till March 31, student after consultation with a supervisor must complete and insert FT description into IS •till May, departments must finalize description printing + signatures (supervisor, guarantor and dean) •from May 24 students have to sign printed descriptions at departments, 2 copies will be a part of the thesis •till December 18 students have to submit the thesis at the department (2 hardcover copies of FT and upload digital FT into IS) • •This schedule is valid for the students graduating in February. • •February – state final exam and defense of the thesis • • • Schedule of Master’s thesis elaboration and defense Schedule of Master’s thesis elaboration •Title in English •Schedule of elaboration including the day of submitting • •Aim of the thesis (aim of the thesis is to evaluate, compare, create etc.) •Subject of the thesis – e. g. Thesis will focus on marketing mix of company XY (future time) •Data and methods – e. g. Questionnaire survey will be employed to evaluate the level of customer satisfaction with products of company XY … or…. Secondary data from Czech statistical office will be applied. •Structure – e.g. Theoretical part of the thesis will focus on determination of fundamental terms and relationships in the field of strategic management and main indicators applied in empirical part will be also defined … In empirical part, the use of marketing mix measures in the company XY will be evaluated. • • • • Content of the FT description Sample of the structure of the documents for the description of the FT •1. Elaboration of individual chapters by: 15. 3. 2021 •2. Elaboration of conclusion by: 10. 4. 2021 •3. Submission of thesis at the department by: 07. 05. 2021 • Elaboration schedule - example •The scope of the BT (not including Annexes) is set at 35 - 45 pages. •The scope of the MT is set at 45 - 65 pages. •The BT or MT is written on one side of the sheet, i.e. double-sided printing is not used. The scope of the FT •Title: Methods of evaluating the efficiency of the company •The aim of the master thesis is to evaluate the economic efficiency of the selected company. The annual reports of FIRM and industry values available at the portal of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic will be used to prepare the master thesis. The data set will cover the period 2015-2019. The introductory part of the master thesis will describe the methods of evaluating the efficiency of the company. In the next part of the thesis the literature review regarding the firm‘s efficiency will be presented. Moreover, the financial statements will be explained. In the practical part of the master thesis will be evaluated the FIRM. The evaluation will be complemented by the recommendations to improve the firm‘s efficiency. The example of the structure of the description of FT •Setting the aim of the master thesis is very important part of the description. • • •The aim is the answer to the question, ‘What are you doing?’ –1. You need to clearly describe what your intentions are and what you hope to achieve. This is the aim. –2. Be very explicit. In the opening paragraphs, say, in simple terms, ‘the aim of the master thesis is to…’ • • The example of the structure of the description of FT •The minimum is 7 sources of literature in the description of FT. •Everything must be according to the citation standard! Literature in the description •[1] FORET, M., 2018. Marketing research: we know our customers. Brno: Computer Press a.s. ISBN 978-80-251-2183-2. •[2] HINDLS, R., S. HRONOVA, J. SEGER and J. FISCHER, 2017. Statistics for Economists. 8th ed. Prague: Professional Publishing. ISBN 978-80-86946-43-6. •[3] JOBBER, D., 2015. Principles and Practice of Marketing. 6th ed. London: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0-07-712330-7. •[4] KLUSOŇ, V., 2019. Ownership Dimension of Social Responsibility. Political Economy, 47 (6), 797-810. ISSN 0032-3233. •[5] KOZEL, R., L. MLYNÁŘOVÁ and H. SVOBODOVÁ, 2018. Modern methods and techniques of marketing research. Prague: Grada Publishing, a.s. ISBN 978-80-247-3527-6. •[6] VAŠTÍKOVÁ, M., 2018. Marketing of services - effectively and modernly. Prague: Grada Publishing, a.s. ISBN 978-80-247-2721-9. •[7] VYSEKALOVÁ, J., 2017. Customer Behavior: How to Uncover the Secrets of a Black Box. Prague: Grada Publishing, a.s. ISBN 978-80-247-3528-3. Literature Log in to the topic The student clicks on the selection of works of the department under which his / her supervisor belongs csvukrs The list of topics will be shown and then it is necessary to search your topic (and your name). Then you just click on „log in“ csvukrs Then select, „Yes, log in“. csvukrs After clicking, these confirmations are displayed and the login confirmation of the supervisor must be waited, who will receive an email about the student's registration on the given topic (until the supervisor confirms the login, the assignment cannot be edited!) csvukrs Zadání podkladů do IS SU After approval by your supervisor, „edit“ is displayed. csvukrs Insertion the description into IS Select from menu „my topics“ Work in IS Work in IS Student can see the topic of the thesis and his/her name Now you can click on „display operations“ and after that you can edit title, content or literature Work in IS Now, you can see all available operations, most important is EDIT Work in IS 1)You can accommodate title of your thesis + please erase your name from the title 2)Same as previous Window for editing the content of the thesis and elaboration schedule. BE CAREFUL! This new system requires HTML format!!!!! However, we have created useful application for transformation of normal text to html format J Zadání podkladů do IS SU You can find the application on web pages of Institute of Information Technologies https://uit.opf.slu.cz/zadani_zp Please click on this link, than download and launch the app Workflow on this app: 1)Choose English as language of this application csvukrs Workflow on this app: 1)Choose type of the thesis (MASTER) 2)After consultation with supervisor you can adjust your Elaboration schedule - !!!deadline for master thesis submission is 7. 5. 3)After consultation with your supervisor you can edit content of your thesis (aim, methods, structure or data) 4)Finally, click on „copy output to the clipboard“ . If you want to save as TXT file, please click on this folder csvukrs Work in IS Return to IS and use CTRL+V to insert text from the app in a form of html format csvukrs BE CAREFUL – as html format consists of specific orders all changes is good to make in app and again insert as a whole Next step is to click on „Literature“ Work in IS csvukrs Work in IS Literature must be inserted DO NOT USE the app for searching because of different citations List of references according to the Dean’s Instruction No.02/2020 ATTENTION!!! AFTER EACH SOURCE YOU MUST STATE
LOOK AT NEXT SLIDE csvukrs Work in IS You should elaborate your list of references (after consultation with your supervisor) - e.g. in MS Office or other program and then insert this list to the system (do not forget
) [1] FORET, M., 2018. Marketing research: we know our customers. Brno: Computer Press a.s. ISBN 978-80-251-2183-2. ˂br/> [2] HINDLS, R., S. HRONOVA, J. SEGER and J. FISCHER, 2017. Statistics for Economists. 8th ed. Prague: Professional Publishing. ISBN 978-80-86946-43-6. ˂br/> [3] JOBBER, D., 2015. Principles and Practice of Marketing. 6th ed. London: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 978-0-07-712330-7. ˂br/> [4] KLUSOŇ, V., 2019. Ownership Dimension of Social Responsibility. Political Economy, 47 (6), 797-810. ISSN 0032-3233. ˂br/> [5] KOZEL, R., L. MLYNÁŘOVÁ and H. SVOBODOVÁ, 2017. Modern methods and techniques of marketing research. Prague: Grada Publishing, a.s. ISBN 978-80-247-3527-6. ˂br/> [6] VAŠTÍKOVÁ, M., 2018. Marketing of services - effectively and modernly. Prague: Grada Publishing, a.s. ISBN 978-80-247-2721-9. ˂br/> [7] VYSEKALOVÁ, J., 2017. Customer Behavior: How to Uncover the Secrets of a Black Box. Prague: Grada Publishing, a.s. ISBN 978-80-247-3528-3. ˂br/> Work in IS If you enter your list of references correctly it looks like this (if you do not insert
all sources will be in one paragraph (without brake) Final step: you should click on „SAVE“, after this operation, an email to your supervisor is automatically sent, your MT topic is still possible to edit (+the topic can be edited by your supervisor) •All that is stated in the References in the wording of full bibliographic citations, must be continuously cited in the text, and the student uses the abbreviated citation method (the Harvard citation system), i.e. the surname of the author or authors (year of publication, in the case of direct or indirect citations the page or the range of pages, is stated). • • Citation methods in the text of the FT •Smith (2020) •Smith (2020, p. 125) •Smith (2020, pp. 125-127) • •Differences? Citation methods in the text of the FT •The taken text can be cited in the following forms: –a) Direct citation - the text is taken literally from the original work and is in quotation marks. –b) Indirect citation (paraphrase) - the text is interpreted from the original work in own words, without changing the meaning of the text. –c) Citation for the entire work - only given if the author refers to the whole original work. Citation methods in the text of the FT •Direct citation: –Novák (2010, p. 26) states that "the main drivers of the financial crisis were the US real estate price bubble, the lack of regulation of financial market supervision and the failure of credit rating agencies." –According to Pokorný and Polák (2007, p. 29), "the most significant risk for the Chinese economy for the next decade is the possibility of a sharp rise in inflation." –"The economic recession is usually accompanied by a decline in economic performance and an increase in the unemployment rate." (Novotný 2009, p. 297). Citation methods in the text of the FT •Indirect citation: –As stated by Vančurová (2010, p. 96), the entry price is the value from which the assets are depreciated. –Significant factors of the economic recession in the Czech Republic included lower economic activity of companies due to the fall in exports and insufficient household consumption (Novák 2010, pp. 25-70). Citation methods in the text of the FT •Citation for the whole work –The theory of macroeconomic shocks is described by Novotný (2009). –The most important contemporary textbook on marketing management is considered to be the textbook by Kotler and Keller (2013). –Janáček et al. (2004) believethat the socialist economy showed a slowdown in the 1980s. Citation methods in the text of the FT •Dean’s Instruction No. 02/2020 - Editing, Publishing and Storing Final Theses •https://www.slu.cz/opf/en/file/cul/3b2545b6-e660-4b0b-93a9-14c082877e86 • • • Thank you for your attention • • • •Contact me: –Iveta Palečková –paleckova@opf.slu.cz –MS Teams – Iveta Palečková –Office: A403