Group Project I

The project is an exercise in helping a hypothetical United States-based multinational corporation (MNC) to expand and establish a new branch into a selected foreign market. Each group will select a country (MEXICO) and prepare a report to the Chief executive of the company recommending the strategies, challenges and opportunities involved in expanding into that country. The decision-making involves reviewing the online real-time data for the country selected, and applying the key concepts emphasized in the text as well as in the assigned readings. The objective of the project is to enable students to analyze and simulate a scenario through cooperative and collaboration learning, and how they can apply their conceptual skills to the data in order to make multinational financial/economic decisions. This Group Project IS DUE BY WEDNESDAY

Instructions:

Each group first selects a country and chooses a company.

Then, use sites provided and your own to review the related information about the country of your choice. In a 2,000-2,500-word paper,

(1) Report the current economic/financial environment (country’s population, gross domestic product (GDP), GDP growth rate, and GDP per capita, interest rate) and political environment (political structure and policy issues) of that country.

(2) Describe the foreign exchange regime of the country selected and specifically, has the currency of the country selected strengthened or weakened against the dollar over the last six months? Why? Please offer one or more reasons to explain the recent general movements in currency values against the dollar.

THE SELECTED COUNTRY IS MEXICO AND THE HYPOTHETICAL COMPANY IS KFC. I HAVE TO PROVIDE THE PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT (QUESTION 2) BY WEDNESDAY