BBS 4th Year Project Work Proposal: Format, Sample Outline and Nepali Headings
6 October 2026 · 8 min read
The BBS fourth-year project work (MGT 401, Final Project) is a short piece of research: about four weeks of fieldwork with an organisation, written up as a three-chapter report. Before any of that, you need an approved proposal. According to the procedures TU published for the four-year BBS, the proposal is prepared within about a month of the session starting, with your subject teacher, and approved by the campus research committee.
FOM's official report format, uploaded to the TU portal in 2023, sets out the final report in detail but does not give a list of proposal sections. Campuses fill that gap with their own templates. What every version asks the proposal to answer is the same: what you will study, why, how, and with what data. The format below covers all of it and maps directly onto the report you will write later.
The proposal format, section by section
Title: specific and short, naming the organisation or sector and the variable, for example “Working Capital Management of a Listed Hydropower Company”.
Background of the study: a page on the sector and the organisation.
Statement of the problem: the issue in that organisation or sector, ending in two or three research questions.
Objectives: one general objective and two or three specific ones.
Rationale or significance: why the answer matters, and to whom.
Brief review of literature: four or five relevant studies, including Nepali ones from NepJOL. Your final report must cite at least 15 references, so start the list now.
Research methodology: design (usually descriptive or analytical), the organisation or sample, the nature and sources of data (annual reports, NEPSE disclosures or a questionnaire), and the tools of analysis (ratios, trend analysis, mean and standard deviation, correlation).
Limitations: the honest boundaries, such as a five-year span, a single organisation or a small sample.
Tentative chapter plan and timeline: the three report chapters and a week-by-week plan for the fieldwork.
References in APA.
Keep it to a few pages. The committee is checking feasibility, not reading a mini-thesis.
An illustrative sample outline
Title: Liquidity Position of a Commercial Bank in Nepal.
Problem: the bank's liquidity ratios have moved with changes in regulatory requirements and deposit growth. How has its liquidity position changed over five years, and how does it compare with the sector average?
Objectives: (1) to analyse the trend of the bank's liquidity ratios over five fiscal years; (2) to compare them with the industry average; (3) to examine the relationship between liquidity and profitability.
Data: secondary data from five years of published annual reports, plus sector figures from the central bank's published statistics.
Tools: current and quick ratios, cash-and-bank-balance to deposit ratio, trend lines, mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation and correlation.
Limitations: one bank, five years, published data only.
This is a sample to show the shape. Pick an organisation whose data you can actually get, and confirm that before the proposal goes in. A good fieldwork placement and a topic built on it make the whole project easier.
Writing in Nepali? The heading equivalents
If your campus allows the project work to be written in Nepali, confirm that with your supervisor before you start. These are the usual heading equivalents:
Title — शीर्षक
Background of the study — अध्ययनको पृष्ठभूमि
Statement of the problem — समस्याको कथन
Objectives of the study — अध्ययनका उद्देश्यहरू
Significance of the study — अध्ययनको महत्त्व
Review of literature — सम्बन्धित साहित्यको पुनरावलोकन
Research methodology — अनुसन्धान विधि
Limitations of the study — अध्ययनका सीमाहरू
References — सन्दर्भ सामग्री सूची
Source names and APA citations stay in their original language even in a Nepali report. A Nepali government source is cited using its own title, with an English translation in square brackets if your supervisor asks for one.
How the proposal becomes the report
The official report has three chapters, and the proposal is most of the first one. Chapter 1 (Introduction) holds the background, organisation profile, objectives, rationale, method and the review of literature. Literature and methodology are sections inside Chapter 1, not chapters of their own. Chapter 2 is Results and Analysis; Chapter 3 is Summary and Conclusion. The report runs to about 8,000 to 10,000 words (roughly 30 to 35 pages) excluding preliminaries and appendices, uses APA 6, and cites at least 15 references.
The most common mistake at this stage is importing a five-chapter thesis structure, with separate literature review and methodology chapters, from an MBS or senior's template. Some older articles describe a five-chapter BBS project, but the current official format is three chapters.
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