Please make sure to read the background case about Walmart and the other resources provided by your professor before you answer the questions below. Use reputable sources such as finance.yahoo.com, morningstar.com, the Wall Street Journal etc. 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).
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.
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 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.
It doesn’t have to be 2 full pages.
