Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of an external capital funding proposal.    Most businesses face a landscape of uncertainty and a never-ending stream of risks and opportunities. Managers must continually project the likely financial impact of decisions, make recommendations, act on those decisions, determine how to pay for them, and evaluate the costs and effectiveness of what has been done. Many decisions are short-term, routine, and operational. Others are longer-term investment decisions that require substantial new resources, such as developing new services, expanding into new geographic markets, or undertaking business combinations or spin-offs. Each requires managers to forecast, plan, and make decisions based on a thorough understanding of both internal and external factors that can affect a company’s financial success.   For the summative assessment in this course, you will bring your finance and economics knowledge to bear by preparing an external capital funding proposal for a major international investment at a publicly traded corporation. In order to secure the support of potential financial backers, your proposal will need to lay out what the proposed investment opportunity is, how it fits within the company’s broader mission and goals, its financial impact, and the amount being requested and why (including alternative funding mechanisms considered). In addition, it will also need to include information on the organization’s context, risk factors, and microeconomic assumptions that could affect the success of the investment.   Prompt: You have already chosen the company you will use for your final project, and you have started a narrative description of your expansion project into another country. In this milestone, you will build on that narrative description providing sufficient detail about the expansion, its costs, and its time frame to give a loan committee a firm sense of the proposed investment. You will also analyze the impact of the investment proposal on your business by explaining why now is the right time for this investment given the global context and by explaining how the investment is a good strategic fit with your company. This milestone addresses all of Section II and Section III (Parts A and B only) of the final project.  

Select a significant tragic event (either domestic or global) that has occurred during the last 50 years. The interactive PowerPoint in this unit provides some ideas of historical tragic events but understand that these are just ideas. After describing the event and the post-tragedy events, discuss the ethical aspects revolving around this incident. This may require some additional research to understand the ethical situations and the impact these had on affected people being able to move on with their lives. Describe the actions of people and organizational leaders directly and indirectly involved with the tragedy. Specifically, address the ethical issues they faced. What were some of the actions of local, state and federal personnel with respect to dealing with this tragedy? Explain the strategies of organizations that attempted to assist with the clean-up after the tragic event. Describe several of the pressures that influenced their strategies. Distinguish between social responsibility, integrity and simple business ethics. How has this event affected the ethical culture here in the United States? What other affect has it had on society as a whole? Your response should be a minimum of two double-spaced pages. References should include, at minimum, one additional credible reference beyond the required reading. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations, and cited per APA guidelines.

For this assignment, you will be evaluating the family from the video, “The Legacy of Unresolved Loss” (https://wsu.kanopy.com/video/legacy-unresolved-loss). We will be watching the video in class. In this paper, you will evaluate this family using some of the topics that we have covered in class so far. Focus on and address the following issues in your paper: 1. What evidence do you see that the therapist is approaching the family’s issues from a family systems perspective? Social construction: discourse dependent theory? A family communications patterns theory? Why? 2. Where would you place this family on Olson’s circumplex model (chapter 2)? Why? For example, how do they manage the issues related to adaptability (level of change, leadership, roles, and relationship rules) and cohesion (involvement, loyalty and togetherness, independence, and individuality) as well as characteristics of communication (listening, speaking, self-disclosure, clarity, staying on topic, and respect and regard, as a family? 3. How would you describe the relational culture in this family (chapter 4)? 4. What seem to be some rules in this family regarding communication?