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Write a paper answering these three finance questions on Walmart.
Questions (ple
Write a paper answering these three finance questions on Walmart.
Questions (please answer the questions separately as opposed to answering them together in one essay):
1. The Walmart Supercenter located in Crossgates Commons in Albany, New York,
is the world’s largest Walmart Supercenter covering 260,000 square feet on two floors. This
supercenter stocks general merchandise, includes a full-service supermarket and hosts various
fast food outlets. Assume that Walmart is considering launching a larger supercenter to surpass
this one in New Jersey. This would be a major capital budgeting project for the firm. An
undertaking of this scale requires coordinated planning across all functions of a business that you
are studying in your Integrated Core classes. Choose and discuss three items on the balance sheet
that you think opening a new supercenter will impact. Explain why you chose those particular
items, and how the marketing, management and operations decisions of the company would
impact them.
2. The textbook authors discuss a variety of financial ratios, and divide them into
five categories. Choose three categories and calculate a financial ratios from each category for
Walmart for the last two fiscal years (2021 and 2022). Make sure to select ratios that you think
opening a new supercenter will affect, and explain your reasoning. Identify a competitor of
Walmart, calculate the same ratios for that competitor, and contrast the results for the two
companies over the two most recent years. Explain why you selected this competitor. Describe
how the decisions made by management, marketing and operations functions of the company can
impact, and hopefully improve, these financial ratios.
3. Walmart has a significant brand value that is closely tied to the emphasis the
company places on the experiences of its customers and associates (employees). Discuss how
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any violations of business ethics in the company might affect its investors, customers and
employees, and ultimately impact the company’s overall financial performance. Provide specific
examples of controversies concerning Walmart in recent years to support your arguments.
Guideline-
The assignment should be prepared as a Word document, 3-4 pages
The document should be double-spaced, use font size 12.
Add any appendices or references at the end of the Word document for each discipline separately.
Your reference sources, in addition to the base case and question sets, should be online sites and articles
Use reputable sources, such as
finance.yahoo.com, morningstar.com, the Wall Street Journal, etc. and the provided Walmart USA- Searching for growth , case study for the financial data to support
your answers
Provide references for the financial data that you use at the end of the finance
portion of the term paper (use APA format for the references).
Microsoft Excel is needed
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