Assignment 1: LASA 2—Risk Management Applications

While there are many factors that lead to an organization's success   or failure, it is important to identify the risk associated with the   endeavor—financial or nonfinancial. Once the risks have been  identified,  management has a responsibility to develop measures to  mitigate those  risks.

Tasks:

Use the publicly-traded company you chose in
Module 1
  and imagine it has made a strategic decision to start doing business  in  China. Using the discussion, Currency Exchange Rates: A Case in  China  with Country Risk, (Chapter 7,
Global Finance
, page 192 of your textbook) as a model for the report you will write, prepare a report in which you:


Develop a brief country risk assessment.

Determine the political, economic, social, and capital risks   associated with doing business in China. What are the most important   factors to consider? Why?

After years of keeping the Yuan pegged to the US dollar, in 2015  the  Chinese  allowed it to float freely in international currency  exchange  rate markets. You may read more about the
Yuan reforms
  here. Many economists believe that keeping the Yuan pegged to the US   dollar has caused it to be undervalued by 30 to 50 percent. Discuss  what  impact a revaluation of the Yuan might have on US multinationals  doing  business there, on China’s exports, and on Chinese citizens’  standard of  living. What impact would a revaluation have on Chinese  inflation and  on purchasing power parity? Explain.

 Your paper should be about 2,000 words.


Submission Details:


By the due date assigned
, save your paper as M5_A1_lastname_firstinitial.doc and submit it to the
Submissions Area
.


This LASA is worth 300 points and will be graded according to the following rubric.

Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
    Communicates understanding of identifying and selecting an  organization appropriate for the assignment requirements  60     Communicates the ability to analyze the business case as well as the  social benefits of the key initiatives  100    Communicates the ability  to examine the highest risks of failure and recommend strategies to  prevent such failures.  100    Communicates the ability to examine the  highest risks of failure and recommend strategies to prevent such  failures.  40    
Total: