HND商法导论outcome2案例及题目.doc

Assessment task 2 Outcome covered 2 Assessment task instructions Candidates will be given one closed-book exercise consisting of four case studies for the assessment of Outcome 2. This exercise should take candidates approximately 2 hours to complete. The case studies can be given to candidates 7-10 days before the assessment event takes place. Candidates will be allowed to bring to the assessment a copy of the case study and two sides of an A4 sheet of paper with relevant notes. This material must be submitted with the candidate’s answer. Textbooks and class handouts will not be permitted. Case Study 1 Samir is walking down Princes Street one Saturday morning when he notices a very eyecatching display of sets of golf clubs in the window of Fairways, a well-known Edinburgh sports retailer. As Samir is a very keen golfer, he stops to pay more attention to the window display. Samir immediately notices that a set of golf clubs (by Japanese master craftsman Matsumoto) is priced at an incredible ￡150. He is astonished at the low price for the golf clubs and he immediately rushes into the shop where he heads straight for the cash desk so that he can purchase the goods. On reaching the cash desk, Samir is incredibly annoyed to be told by the (somewhat superior) sales assistant that some sort of mistake has obviously occurred. There is no way that the store would sell a set of Matsumoto golf clubs for a mere ￡150. The goods have been incorrectly priced and if Samir wishes to purchase the clubs he must pay ￡1,500 for them. Samir insists that Fairways has made him a definite offer and that he has now accepted that offer — there is a legally enforceable contract between him and the store. The sales assistant is absolutely unimpressed by Samir’s line of argument. Admittedly, it is often the case that Fairways will give customers goods which are wrongly priced for the price as it is marked on the ticket, but this is purely a gesture of goodwill. In this situation, the sales assi