1.Expanding the number of stores in a foreign market, such as the expansion plan launched by Starbucks in China (announced in 2018), is a major capital budgeting project. A project 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 income statement and balance sheet (a total of six items) that you think this new undertaking will affect. Explain why you chose those particular items, and how the marketing, management and operations decisions of the company will affect them.

2.Choose and calculate three ratios for Starbucks for the last two years. Make sure to select ratios that you think that expanding into a new market will effect, and explain your reasoning. Identify a competitor of Starbucks and contrast these three ratios for the two companies. 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, the components of firm operations that these financial ratios measure.

3.Explain how the financial decisions regarding opening a new store are related to management, marketing or operations decisions that the company must make (or has made)?