Milestone One: Investment Project and Justification (Parts A and B)In Module Four, you will submit a draft of Section II (Investment Project) and Section III (Justification), Parts A and B only, of the final project. Submit 8-10 pagesof narrative, building on the memo ( Attatched).

Include references to past financial results, growth rates, andother financial ratios as exhibited in the spreadsheet created (Attatched) , and end with appropriate reference citations.

Guidelines for Submission: Your investment project and justification paper should be approximately 8-10 pages in length (excluding spreadsheets, other exhibits,and list of references as necessary). It should be double-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins, and should use APA format forreferences and citations.

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 financialimpact of decisions, make recommendations, act on those decisions, determine how to pay for them, and evaluate the costs and effectiveness of what has beendone. Many decisions are short-term, routine, and operational. Others are longer-term investment decisions that require substantial new resources, such asdeveloping 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 fora major international investment at a publicly traded corporation. In order to secure the support of potential financial backers, your proposal will need to lay outwhat the proposed investment opportunity is, how it fits within the company’s broader mission and goals, its financial impact, and the amount being requestedand 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 intoanother country. In this milestone, you will build on that narrative description providing sufficient detail about the expansion, its costs, and its time frame to givea 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 nowis 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 milestoneaddresses all of Section II and Section III (Parts A and B only) of the final project.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:II. Investment Project: Use this section to describe the investment for which you are seeking funding, its costs, and time frame.

Specifically, you should:

A. Describe the investment project. Be sure to provide sufficient detail to give the loan committee a firm sense of the parameters of the activity, theneed for it, and what financial metrics are relevant for determining success. In other words, what do you propose to do, where, what marketplaceneed will it fill, and how will you measure success?

B. Specify the resources the project will require and where these resources will come from. In addition to noting the amount of the loan you arerequesting, you should also consider human resources, facilities, government approvals, intellectual property, access to natural resources, and otherresources that might be required to carry out the project.

III. Justification: In this section, you should analyze the impact of the investment proposal on your business. In particular, you should cover:

A. Why is now a good time for this investment given the global context? Justify your response, citing specific external factors such as trade regulations,foreign currency considerations, or trends in foreign direct investment that might affect business financial decisions.

B. Strategic fit. Use this section to discuss why the investment proposal makes sense for your company strategically. Specifically:

1. How does the investment align with the company’s organizational and financial priorities? Support your argument with evidence from

company reports and financial statement analysis designed to persuade the lender that the investment is a good strategic fit for your

company.

2. How does the project fit within the global microeconomic environment? Support your response with evidence. For example, would the

expansion tap unmet demand for the company’s key products or services or fill a new niche? How do you know?

3. How does the project build on the organization’s core competencies and comparative advantage? For example, does the company have a

strategic advantage from intellectual property, regional expertise, suppliers, or organizational structure?