This document outlines two portfolio assignments for a course on international business. For the first assignment, students must choose a multinational corporation (MNC) from a provided list to research throughout the course. They must submit the name of their chosen MNC along with a brief description of why it qualifies as an MNC. Students also analyze one of 15 objectives as it relates to their chosen MNC in a 200-word minimum response. The second assignment requires preliminary research on the chosen MNC, including its history of internationalization and role in foreign exchange markets. Students investigate the MNC's transactions and arrangements with other corporations to understand short and long-term impacts. The response should be a minimum of two double-spaced pages
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1. Unit 1 Portfolio:
Choose a company throughout this course you will be
“following” a Multi-National Corporation (MNC) and
performing a series of reports, case studies, and activities that
intend for you to see how an organization operates on the
international level. You may choose from the list of pre-
approved MNCs below:
1. American International Group
2. Capital One
3. Coca-Cola
4. Royal Dutch Shell
5. Wal-Mart
For this assignment, you are to choose an MNC that you want to
research throughout the course and submit if for approval.
Your topic approval should include the name of the MNC and a
description of why the organization is considered an MNC, You
should also choose one of the objectives below to perform a
minimum 200 word analysis of how the objective applies to
your chosen MNC.
Objectives:
1. Examine the concept of the current account balance.
2. Employ the current account balance to extend national
income accounting to open economies.
3. Apply national income accounting to the interaction of
saving, investment, and net exports.
4. Evaluate and discuss the national money markets in which
interest rates are determined.
5. Compare how monetary policy and interest rates feed into the
foreign exchange market.
6. Discuss the concept of the real exchange rate.
7. Analyze the factors that affect real exchange rates and
relative currency prices in the long run.
8. Explain the role of the real exchange rate in determining the
2. aggregate demand for a country's output.
9. Demonstrate causes and effects of balance of payments
crises.
10. Evaluate how alternative multilateral systems for pegging
exchange rates work.
11. Explain how the goals of internal and external balance
motivate economic policy makers in open economies.
12. Summarize how the monetary and fiscal policies of a large
country such as the United States are transmittedabroad.
13. Analyze the economic function of international portfolio
diversification.
14. Explain factors leading to the explosive recent growth of
international financial markets.
15. Analyze problems in the regulation and supervision of
international banks and nonbank financial institutions.
Minimum: 200 words
Unit II Portfolio
For your second assignment, you are to perform some
preliminary investigation into the MNC you chose by
performing a brief survey and creating a portfolio. Start with
the history of the organization and provide some brief
background into how the organization entered the international
stage and how globalization has played a part in the
organization’s growth. When creating the portfolio, you should
provide examples of the types of transactions the MNC has
made within foreign exchange markets and if there are netting
arrangements the organization has made. You should also
investigate the purpose of the company’s actions and what this
will mean for them in short-term and long-term arrangements
with other corporations. For example:
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fect their cash flow
their transaction
3. These are just a few questions to get your mind jogging on this
topic. Based upon your readings, you should be able to come up
with some questions of your own that are more specific to the
company you chose, and the types of transactions they make
within the forex market. This assignment is important to
understanding interactions companies make within international
markets and how this affects everyone, down to the end-user.
Minimum: 2 pages
(Double spaced, with Times New Roman 12 pt. font,
appropriate APA style writing and citations)