8-2 Final Project II Submission: Risk Management and Ethical Analysis

 Corporate financial managers must have a business-wide perspective to successfully navigate the corporate environment. The skills you will develop in thiscourse will support you in your future business career and set the foundation for the concepts that will be covered in the next course, Multinational CorporateFinance. Your final project for FIN 330 will allow you to showcase your mastery of the varied skills a finance professional must obtain: It will require you toanalyze a real-world corporation from a quantitative perspective while also investigating the challenges and decisions a manager must face. 

To accomplish this, your final assessment will be broken up into two separate but related projects. For your first project, a corporate valuation report, you willchoose one of the U.S. corporations from a provided list, analyze the historical financials of your chosen corporation using the provided Excel template, andestimate the value of your corporation in a brief report.

The second final project is a risk management and ethical analysis that will focus on the same corporation, highlighting the management and leadershipconsiderations and decisions required of top-level financial managers. In this written report, you will discuss ethics, corporate social responsibility, and thechallenges related to attaining short-term and long-term goals. 

Combined, these two projects will assess your knowledge regarding the quantitative and qualitative concepts of corporate finance and leadership.  

Final Project I, the final corporate valuation report, is due in Module Seven, and Final Project II, the final risk management and ethical analysis, is due in ModuleEight. There are no milestone submissions that directly relate to Final Project II. However, your reading and the related assignments in Modules Six and Sevenwill help support your work as it relates to your Final Project II submission. 

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

 

Analyze the relationships between capital structure, risk, and cost of capital for informing financial decisions that can optimize the value of corporations 

Analyze challenges financial managers face regarding short-term and long-term planning for informing decision-making 

Analyze the relationship between the value of corporations and ethically and socially responsible corporate behavior for informing financial decisions 

 Your risk management and ethical analysis should analyze the prevalent risks associated with your corporations, the challenges financial managers face in tryingto attain short- and long-term goals, and the various considerations that must be made during financial decision making

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: 

I. Corporate Overview: In this section, you will summarize the industry and corporate overview you created in the first part of your final project. Be sure tofocus on the industry trends and issues, as you will expand upon them throughout this report. 

II. Risks and Challenges: In this section, you will expand on several forms of risk and explain how each impacts corporate value and decision making. 

A. Describe the challenges financial managers can face regarding working capital management (WCM) in short-term planning. 

B. Analyze economic and political risk in relation to your chosen corporation for potential impact on shareholder value maximization. If there areno current risks related to economics and politics facing the industry or your corporation, analyze economic and political risk in general terms,discussing how they could impact shareholder value in general. 

C. Analyze industry-specific riskssuch as competition, supply chains, and technological disruptionsfor their potential influence on financialdecision making within your chosen corporation. Provide examples to illustrate your claims. 

D. Analyze company-specific challenges that could impact corporate success in the long- or short-term. These challenges may include things likeaccess to key talent, facilities, natural resources, or patents. 

III. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Ethics: In this section, you will discuss the importance and impact of corporate social responsibility and ethicsin financial decision making and a corporations value. 

A. Identify the key CSR and ethical issues involving your companys major stakeholders: investors, customers, employees, suppliers, communities,and the environment. 

B. Explain how the identified issues can impact the corporations value. 

C. Discuss the role that financial managers should play in monitoring and managing these issues.D. Reflect on the importance of ethics and CSR in financial decision making, explaining reasoning. 

Final Project II RubricGuidelines for Submission: 

Your risk management and ethical analysis report should be 23 pages in length, double spaced, with 12-point Times New Romanfont, one-inch margins, and APA formatting.