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 will 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 must 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. The first, a corporate valuation report, will focus on a U.S.
corporation of your choice. You will 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:
 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
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: