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Notes of 2nd meeting with project mentor

Notes of 2nd meeting with Project Mentor

Meeting held on Friday 13th November 2009

Good afternoon. I have done ample work since our first meeting with regard to the project. I know that the purpose of this meeting was for you to conduct interim review of my work. For that I have compiled a rough draft of my work. But the conclusion has not been done.

Mentor: That is absolutely fine. Let’s start by reviewing the work you have done

Student: (provides draft to mentor for review)

Mentor: Although these things have to be done at the finalization stage, I would like to remind you to make a title page and Table of contents for the report. The formatting also needs to be changed so that the layout seems more professional.

The section on choosing the sector and organization seems rather incomplete. These statements may come across as rather generic.

Student: Yes I realized that myself. I was wondering would it be okay if I added a little statistical data to support these statements, like information of operations of ACPL.

Mentor: yes I believe that is an excellent way of justifying your reason for choosing this company and sector for the analysis. I also see your project aims and objectives are incomplete. Although I believe that you have worked towards the business performance-related objectives, you have not mentioned these in the Project aims and objectives. Your research questions are rather well drafted, but you must also include the research question in relation to the skills that you learnt while working for the project.

I see that you have mentioned the all sources of information under a single heading. Don’t you think that while reading the project one should be able to differentiate between primary and secondary sources of data and how you gathered data from these sources considering the difference between their authenticity and availability?

Student: I understand what you are saying. I will have to segregate the sources of information according to their nature.

Mentor: Your explanation of information gathered from primary sources seems incomplete. Here you should mention what did you learnt from the meetings with the company personnel.

Your discussion of secondary sources also needs to be elaborated I feel, especially in regard to the information that you got from the internet. I should be able to understand how the internet came as a useful source of information for you.

Your explanation of accounting tools and techniques is rather well done.

Elixir securities, is this an analytical report?

Student: Yes it is.

Mentor: I don’t think you have mentioned this above in the section on information gathering. Please make sure that all sources of information you have used in the project are included in the explanation of Sources of information.

I am sure that you have researched on professional report writing skills. Although the paragraphing and formatting in the rest of the report has not bothered me, but considering the overall size of the report, the sales and profitability analysis seems very long to me. I feel it would be more identifiable if you commented on sales and profitability separately.

Student: I had thought of doing that but I thought since most of the profitability ratios are linked to sales I should comment on them together. But you are right I should present this more clearly.

Mentor: Make sure you insert ratio tables showing the ratios you have calculated in the analysis section. That helps the reader to identify the trend in a certain ratio.

Student: Yes I was going to do that in the end. I have made these tables; they just have to be inserted in relevant spaces.

Mentor: I see a margin of improvement in the sales analysis. My suggestion would be that you demonstrate how much of the change in sales was attributable to quantity sold and how much was attributable to prices.

Here in the explanation of increase in cost of sales, include some statistics such as price of coal to show which elements form the major portion of costs.

I also feel that the explanation of debt to equity ratio is slightly weak. You have not mentioned the reason for increase in equity in both years, at least highlight the major change in balance sheet line items which has caused the equity to increase.

The SWOT analysis is rather weak I am afraid. There is very little chance that the company has only one weakness. The number of strengths can also be increased I believe. The PEST analysis seems well done.

As far as I can tell your work seems to be going according to schedule. You have done majority of your work. Next time I would also like to see your conclusion and appendixes of the project and please make sure that you incorporate all point I have mentioned today in the project.

Student: Thank you. I will make sure that these points do not occur in the next meeting. I will also try to make improvements in the project on my own.

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