FINANCE ASSIGNMENT

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 either the Bloomberg terminals

located at the Feliciano School of Business or other 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$).$

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