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FIN 330 Final Project II Guidelines and Rubric Overview Corporate financial managers must have a business-wide perspective to successfully navigate the corporate environment

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FIN 330

Final Project II

Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

Corporate financial managers must have a business-wide perspective to successfully navigate the corporate environment. The skills you will develop in this

course will support you in your future business career and set the foundation for the concepts that w

ill be covered in the next course, Multinational Corporate

Finance. Your final project for FIN 330 will allow you to showcase your mastery of the varied skills a finance professional m

ust obtain: It will require you to

analyze 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 will

choose one of the

U.S. corporations from a

provided list,

analyze the historical financials of your chosen corporation using the provided Excel template, and

estimate 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 leadership

considerations and decisions required of top

-level financial managers. In this written report, you will discuss ethics, corporate social responsibility, and the

challenges 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

Module

Eight. There are no milestone submissions that directly relate to

Final Project II. However, your reading and the related assignments in Modules Six and Seven

will 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:

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

imize the value of corporations

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

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Analyze the relationship between the value of corporations and ethically and socially responsible corporate behavior for info

rming financial decisions

Prompt

Your risk

management and ethical analysis should

analyze the prevalent risks associated with your corporations, the challenges financial managers face in trying

to 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 to

focus 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 impac

ts 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 valu

e maximization. If there are

no 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

risks—such as competition, supply chains,

and technological disruptions—for their potential

influence on financial

decision

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 like

access 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 responsib

ility and ethics

in financial decision

making and a corporation’s value.

A. Identify the key CSR and

ethical issues involving your company’s major stakeholders: investors, customers, employees,

suppliers, communities,

and

the environment.

B. Explain how the identified issues can impact

the corporation’s 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

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your risk management and ethical analysis report should be 2–3

pages in length, double spaced,

with

12-point

Times New Roman

font, one-inch margins, and APA formatting.

Critical Elements

Exemplary

(100%)

Proficient (85%)

Needs Improvement

(55%)

Not Evident (0%)

Value

Corporate

Overview

Meets “Proficient” criteria,

and

summary sets the groundwork

for focus on industry trends and

issues that may impact the

corporation

Accurately summarizes the

industry and corporate overview

with a focus on industry trends

and issues

Summarizes the

industry and

corporate overview

but does not

focus on industry trends and

issues, or lacks accuracy

Does not summarize the industry

and corporate overview

5

Risks and

Challenges: WCM

Meets “Proficient” criteria and

shows keen insight into the

challenges facing managers in

short-term planning

Logically describes the challenges

financial managers face with

WCM in short-term planning

Describes the challenges financial

managers face with WCM in

short-term planning, but with

gaps in logic or detail

Does not describe the challenges

financial managers face with

WCM in short-term planning