Hello everyone. Welcome to Management, Economics, and Business Analysis Capstone. We are now in Milestone fourth, of course. This is a fairly exciting module because what do we get to do? Or what do you get to do? You get to submit the final report. By this time, you should be pretty ready to be making that final recommendation for the selection of the country for your foreign direct investment project, because in Modules 1 through 3, you've been doing all of the intermediate work, you've been getting quite a bit of feedback from your peers, and so you are at that final point when you're ready to make your final selection of one country and to submit that final report to that board of directors. So it's time for you to integrate all of that work in Milestones 1 through 3 in one comprehensive final report. So are you ready to make that final call? Which one of the two candidate countries will you recommend to the board? I know that for some of you, the choice might actually be a pretty easy one. As you've done your microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, it started looking pretty early like one of the countries was hand and shoulders above the second candidates for investment. But for some of you, that choice might be quite a bit more difficult, and you still might be on the fence, "Gosh, which one of the two countries do I choose?" I hear you. So what's the approach I'm here? Well, my suggestion might be is to put together a short rubric that essentially rates the two countries on various measures. That might be macro and micro economic performance similar to the work that you've done in Module 1, rating the 10 countries and ranking them from highest to lowest. You might want to put together something similar, perhaps not something as extensive, but create that rubric that will rate the two countries on macro and micro economic measures. You're definitely not required to do that. But that might help you to craft together a narrative that explains how you made that decision, and that narrative should be a part of your write-up in your final report. Final report itself. Madu provide to you a bit of guidance about the final report. As a matter of fact, in the Final Report Outline document available to you in the course, you can see the structure of the document and you can even see suggested volume of the document. But essentially, what you have to have in there is the executive summary and introduction that provides an overview of the company product and expansion project. In Part 3, you are providing narrative for fewer potential geographic expansion opportunities and explaining how you chose your two top candidate countries. Macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis follow. Section 6 should be the final recommendation. Section 7 is references and then Section 8 is your attachment which is your country ranking analysis, that should be separate document, the one that we warned you to please keep and not to throw away, right? Something that you are going to submit of your final report. So there it is. In terms of documenting your sources, so please do remember that we absolutely expect you to to document your sources and to give credit for any quotes or paraphrased material that you've used. That's important to us because this is academic integrity. You don't have to use a specific format for your references or for your in-text citations. If you wanted to get my own recommendation or suggestion, you can use APA style, and you can look at the final report outlined for more information and additional links to those resources. But again, this is a recommendation or suggestion, and by no means requirement. You can use any style as long as you're consistent. As long as you provide full information about the sources that you've used, it really is perfectly fine to use something else. That is really pretty much it. This is the time to put all of this work together to demonstrate the final outcome of quite a bit of work that you've done both in this course and in the macro and micro-economics courses and statistics courses that preceded. So thank you for all of your hard work, let's get it finished and talk to you soon.
