• Imagine that you are a Controller for a large company in the Project Management Budget Office. Outline some of the reasons why you would use NPV, IRR, Payback Period when you are valuing projects and budgets. Remember to cite your references.
• Project valuation has become a large topic and point of discussion for many companies. Name some of the ways that your current or past employer used project valuation to rank projects, develop a capital budget, or through some expansion.
• Describe how net present value is used in the financial decision making process.
• Imagine that you are a Controller for a large company in the Project Management Budget Office. You are looking at several different sites to build a new facility for your company and different states are offering incentives. Outline how sunk and opportunity costs can affect your decision on where to build. Remember to cite your references.
• Review the financial considerations a company should make before investing in a project.
• Understand how net working capital, depreciation and interest influence the decision to buy or not to buy.
• Review the types of assumptions used in sensitivity and scenario analysis.
• Describe how the options to expand or abandon a project are integrated in the capital budgeting process.
• Review the following article (attached article) and respond with your observations and thoughts.

Format References in APA format.

1. Please describe and evaluate the Country/Political Risk faced by this organization and describe its successes and failures.
2. What has been the lending strategy followed by Santander? Are lending decisions based on the credit background of the borrower, or on the riskiness of the venture? How do they manage risk? How do they finance their loans? Why is there so little cross-border borrowing?
3. How is the lending strategy different to US commercial banks?
4. As a consultant to the CEO, what would you suggest Magda Salarich do now? Please obtain, identify and evaluate the data and conduct a multi-perspective analysis of the evidence to make a logical recommendation for solving the problem with a global perspective.
5. Defend your recommendation and communicate your beliefs clearly and accurately.

Case Study Resources:
Usually business writing incorporates APA format. Case length is not an important consideration in my grading strategy.
The questions posed are meant to guide you in developing an analytical framework that you must present in a case report. Usually you can incorporate your responses in sections C and D described below. I cannot prescribe a single outline or template, but I can identify “building blocks” that are essential to building a logical structure that will stand up to critical scrutiny, and serve as a useful guide to presenting the results of your in depth case analysis. Essential building blocks and structure are as follows:

• Executive Summary
• Section A. Introduction and Overview of the Situation
• Section B. Assumptions and Methods
• Section C. Business Impacts
• Section D. Descriptions of Sensitivity, Risks, Successes, Failures, Contingencies and Strategies
• Section E. Conclusions and Recommendations

This is a good resource but parts may not be relevant (this is not a group report): Business Resources for Students: Writing a Case Study (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Case Study Resources Attached Below:

• Appendix A: Suggested Questions (attached below is the Santander case you must read in order to answer these questions)
• Appendix B: Shows how you are getting the tools of Global Learning for Global Citizenship by answering the above questions and their weighting in the project.
• Appendix C: This is an example of a rubric that highlights what I am looking for and can be matched to the questions above.
• HBP Case Analysis Worksheet.
• Steps for Effective Case Analysis.