MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

GROUP PROJECT TWO (20%)

FALL SEMESTER, 2023

I. General Guidelines
This group assignment accounts for 20% of the course’s final grade. All questions are
compulsory.

Please submit a soft copy of your work (with your student’s name and ID on the front page and
word count) on Canvas. Late submissions will be penalised 10% (of the marks awarded) per day.
For assignments submitted 5 days late, a penalty of 100% will apply. Weekends (Saturday and
Sunday) are counted toward total late days. Extension requests must be supported with
appropriate documentation to justify extreme circumstances.

The assignment should be typed. Any graphs should be drawn using professional tools rather
than manual hand drawing. All calculations must be done using MS Excel.

You are required to submit:

1. The report in docx format

2. Worksheets showing well-formatted calculations xlsx file.
The document should be formatted following the guidelines below:

 Text: justified
 Character size: 12 points
 Font: Times New Roman
 Margin: 1 inch
 Maximum word count: 2000 words (excluding references, tables, and figures), ±10%. It
is compulsory to specify the word count on the cover page. For every 100 words
exceeded, your assignment will be deducted 05 points. Please note that using/attempting
to use any tricks to reduce word count or gain academic advantages is considered
academic misconduct.
 II. Task Details

This assignment requires you to find, process data, and present your results in a professional
format. You do not need to limit yourself to the knowledge in this module.

Your team (including either 4 or 5 members) have 72 hours to put together a report on the
macroeconomic environment to support a multi-million USD foreign investment decision of a
company. Given the temporal pace of the situation, you are strictly required to comply with the
word limit. However, the figures, charts, and tables are excluded from the wordcount.

In the quick meeting with the CEO, he/she concerns that the current thriving circle in the existing
industry will shortly come to an end and hence a new significant and long-term investment in a
Country X must be underway to maintain the success. You are required to prepare a background
report with a recommendation to either go ahead with the plan or reject it.

Requirements:

1. Choose Country X. Conduct brief research on the political, historical, and geographical
background of this country.
2. Use key economic indicators to illustrate the trends over the last five years. Wherever
relevant, you need to compare each requirement to Vietnam and use
charts/figures/graphs/tables to support.
a. GDP, GDP growth rate, GDP per capita.
b. Inflation rate
c. Strength of the local currency compared to USD
d. Unemployment
e. Population growth
f. Major cross-border trading partners (imports and exports partners)
g. Key strengths and major weaknesses of the economy
h. One industry/sector with the greatest potential investment opportunity
i. Key ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) regulations and concerns
j. Human right concerns over the last five years.
3. Provide brief judgement on whether the company should accept or reject the investment
decision into the country.
Attention
 You need to collect series of data of relevant variables from reliable sources (NOT from
Investopedia or Wikipedia or Essays4u/Tutor2u or similar sources) to support your
statements/arguments.
 Presenting your report charts/figures/tables in a concise, clear, and professional format.
You might refer to some reports of top consulting firms (BCG, McKinsey, Big4 auditing
firms) for your reference.
 You are encouraged to use ChatGPT or similar AI tools to as a starting point and improve
upon it. Plain copy and paste from AI generative software is plagiarism. Necessary
procedures will be conducted to further investigate if we suspect such a behaviour.
 Format your citations/references using APA 7th Edition.
Table 1: Assessment Two Grading Rubric

Criteria Ratings Pts.

30 to >23.99 23.99 to >20.99 20.99 to >17.99 17.99 to >14.99 14.99 to >0 30
Conduct brief research on Extensive evidence of Extensive evidence of Clear evidence of ability Some evidence of ability Little or no evidence of
the historical and ability to apply ability to apply to accurately apply a to accurately apply a ability to accurately
geographical background appropriate technical appropriate technical limited range of technical limited range of technical apply technical
of this country. (CLO 5) knowledge leading to knowledge leading to knowledge. knowledge. knowledge.
relevant insights. relevant insights.
with some minor
exceptions.
50 to >39.99 39.99 to >34.99 34.99 to >29.99 29.99 to >24.99 24.99 to >0 50

Use key economic The supporting The supporting The supporting evidence The supporting evidence The supporting evidence
indicators to illustrate evidence is convincing evidence is is convincing but lacks is not convincing and is not convincing and
the trends over the last and presented convincing and proper structure and not lacks proper structure. It lacks proper structure. It
five years. Wherever appropriately and contains minor errors fully referenced or is not fully referenced or is not fully referenced or
relevant, you need to accurately. Work is in referencing. contains errors in contains some errors in contains some errors in
compare each fully referenced referencing. referencing. referencing.
requirement to Vietnam according to accepted
and use charts, figures, scholarly standards.
graphs, tables to
support. (CLO 6)
20 to >15.99 15.99 to >13.99 13.99 to >11.99 11.99 to >9.99 9.99 to >0 20
Provide brief judgement Demonstrates an Demonstrates good Demonstrates basic Demonstrates limited Unable to synthesize
on whether the company outstanding capability capability to capability to synthesize ability to synthesize various information to
should accept or reject to synthesize various synthesize various various information to various information to make a strategic decision
the investment decision information to make a information to make a make a strategic decision make a strategic decision in a foreign business
into the country. (CLO6) strategic decision in a strategic decision in a in a foreign business in a foreign business environment context.
foreign business foreign business environment context. environment context. Just provide generic
environment context. environment context. answer.
Total 100