Finance Assignment
Search for multinational companies that operate in Bosnia.
Examine FIVE different companies.
Go to the websites of your selected companies and examine their international business activity. What percentage of revenues did these companies derive from their foreign operations in the last two most recent fiscal years? Is their foreign activity increasing or decreasing? What explanations, if any, has the company offered for this increase or decrease in their foreign activity? Where are the headquarters of each company located? Is the recent trend in the value of your country's currency that you saw in #3 expected to have a favorable or unfavorable impact on your selected company? Why do you think so? You should be able to find the required data in each company's financial statements which you can locate in their websites in the investor relations sections (SEC filings).
Consider Bosnia and its trading partners. Based on your review of the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and other similar periodicals, which of these countries is having currency problems? List 5 countries. What are the causes of those currency problems? If you cannot find any current problems then search and summarize the most recent currency problems for your country and its partners.
BELOW ARE THE WEBSITES THAT ARE HELPFUL
Resources/References
Here is a partial list of some resources that you can access after you connect:
a) Passport GMID Provides business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources.
b) Country Commercial Guides Current in-depth foreign country and market reports prepared by the US Department of Commerce.
c) Country Studies In-depth country studies produced by a team of scholars under the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
d) OECD library (formerly SourceOECD) OECD library is OECD's Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.
e) World Bank eLibrary
f) World Bank, Open Data The World Bank is providing free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe.
g) EIU.com Analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment for many countries, plus how to do business in most countries.
h) Europa World Online Online version of the Europa World Year Book. Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories
i) CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
j) CIA - The World Factbook Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
k) Country Risk & Economic Research The Coface Group is a trade risk expert and a worldwide leader in credit insurance.
l) World Bank: Countries & Regions Data & statistics, overviews, news, current events, reports and research.
m) Countries Pages from the U.S. Department of State These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations.
n) Country Profiles / Research Countries Descriptive, political, economic, statistical, and other information about countries from LexisNexis.