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• Review the current financial statements of Walmart.
   
  • Option 1: Yahoo! Finance (Links to an external site.) web page 
    • Enter the stock symbol of Walmart, Inc. (WMT) in the search bar
    • Click on the “Financials” tab
  • Option 2: EDGAR | Company Filings (Links to an external site.) database 
    • Enter "Walmart Inc." in the search bar

For this assignment, you are required to upload your work to your  ePortfolio in addition to Waypoint. Learn more about Folio, Ashford’s  ePortfolio tool, by viewing the Folio Quick Start Guide (Links to an external site.).

Submit your file to Waypoint using the button below. Then paste the  link to your Folio page as a comment in Waypoint so your instructor can  access your ePortfolio.

In prior weeks, you learned about finance and financial analysis.  This week you will put it all together. Using the Walmart Case Study and  your selected country, you will complete a comprehensive recommendation  to Walmart executives either recommending or forgoing expansion into  your selected country.

• Summarize the culture and financial climate of the country and why  it would be favorable or unfavorable for Walmart to expand in that  region.
• Describe your country’s foreign exchange rates and how those rates  could impact Walmart’s future financial performance. Be sure to address: 
  • interest rates,
  • balance of payments,
  • government policies, and
  • other factors such as taxes and tariffs.
• Describe how Walmart needs to manage foreign exchange risk.
• Analyze any potential political risk and its impact to the financials.
• Propose how Walmart should fund this new expansion.

The Walmart International Expansion Recommendation Final Paper

• Must be 10 to 12 double-spaced pages in length (not including title  and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined  in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.