BUSINESS 523 – Contemporary Issues in Financial Management

BUSINESS 523 – Contemporary Issues in Financial Management

Subject: Business    / Finance
Question

You will prepare and submit a research paper that illustrates your grasp of the concepts you have learned throughout the course and your ability to analyze a situation and recommend policy.

Contemporary Issues in Financial Management

You are expected to conduct research on contemporary financial management issues (for instance, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyout, hostile takeover, global outsourcing, corporate governance). Based on your research, select one contemporary issue and an organization that has created a financial management strategy to manage this issue. Please evaluate the impact of the selected contemporary issue on the selected organization. Prepare an 8–10 page paper, and remember to adhere to APA format standards.

Please address the evaluation on the following items:

Describe your selected contemporary issue.
Describe the financial strategy that your selected organization has created to manage your selected contemporary issue.
Assess the impact of corporate governance and ethical issues on the organization’s strategy.
Evaluate the financial situation of the organization prior to any action taking place.
Assess the financial situation after the action was taken.
Was the organization successful in managing the selected contemporary issue? Why or why not?

The following details the milestones that will be followed in the development of the final paper: