Homework: Capital Investments in Emerging Markets
Use the Internet and/or Strayer Library to research a publicly traded manufacturing company of your choice. Review the current plans that your selected company has identified for capital investments in emerging markets. Note: You can find useful information on a company's capital investment plans from their website and/or press releases.
Write a 5 to 6 pages paper in which you:
• Suggest a methodology to supplement the traditional methods for evaluating the capital investments of your selected company in the emerging markets to reduce risk. Provide a rationale for your suggested methodology.
• Assess one way in which inflation could potentially impact planned capital investments in emerging markets and examine one approach to perform an accurate evaluation of the investments. Suggest how this knowledge may impact management's decisions.
• Contrast the modifications you would make in evaluating the projects to increase internal capacity in the largest market in which the company currently operates with the modifications you would make in evaluating expansion projects into secondary markets. Suggest one way that this information will impact the decisions made related to expansion.
• Examine two benefits of using sensitivity analysis in evaluating the projects for your selected company. Suggest how this approach can provide a competitive advantage for the company.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this homework is:
• Create a recommendation for evaluating a company's capital investments in emerging markets that includes the potential impact of inflation, modifications to evaluating projects, and benefits of using sensitivity analysis.