13. Strategic issues for MNCs…from the list below research your MNC and write one paragraph on each of the three topics explaining how the MNC handles these issues.
Performance Evaluation Measures
o Financial and Non-Financial Evaluation – how does your MNC regard its foreign operation
and how are the unit and the managers evaluated
Management Control Systems and National Cultures
o What steps, if any, is your MNC taking to be sensitive to the national culture.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
o What is your MNC doing with regard to CSR?
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG)
o What impact has ESG had on your MNC; how is the finance department handling the reporting of the company’s disclosure of the topics and the corresponding transparency that is being demanded.
14. Tell me why I should invest in your MNC; please provide at least one calculation (show calculation details) for a capital investment evaluation; i.e., ROI, NPV, IRR or the payback period.
15. There is a relationship between transfer pricing and an entity’s tax and financial report. What is the definition of transfer pricing? Transfer pricing is in the cross hairs of tax policy as it relates to the competing objectives of what three parties?
16. In your own words, what is your understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and what impact does the law have on your selected MNC.