Course Project: Interview a Financial Manager:

1. Our course content discussed systematic risk. We compared the systematic risk in firms such as an airline company versus a candy company. Can you describe in general terms the systematic risk in our firm?

*Alternative: Choose a firm or favorite company that you often do business with and briefly describe your intuitive understanding of its systematic risk.

2. Id like to find ways to use the risk and return concepts that Ive been learning about to become a better operational manager. What recommendations do you have for what I could be doing better, or what I could start to do for the first time?

*Alternative: Briefly describe the ways that you see the course content being helpful to you as you develop a greater understanding of how capital budgeting decisions are made.