Nissan has been at the heart of one of the biggest automotive financial scandals to date. From executives under-reporting wages, to misreporting earnings, and even corporate espionage charges. For Project 1 you're job is to approximate the financial loss that this scandal has cost the company.

For this project you are going to be wearing your financial analyst hat. As an analyst it's your job to objectively evaluate the financial sustainability of a firm and offer your recommendation to current or potential shareholders.

In an executive summary (that is no more than two pages, 12pt font, 1.5 spaced) I want you to site major events in the scandal and use available financial information (stock prices, publicly available company financial statements, etc) to approximate the financial loss the company sustained.

Your writing this executive summary to the current and prospective shareholders so your conclusion must include your recommendation. Should investors buy, hold, or sell this stock? Is there any weight to the news around Nissan's new direction? Do you believe Nissan can recover from the financial and reputation damages?

You may include an appendix beyond the two page executive summary to include relevant links/citations to news articles, financial statements, stock charts, your own original Excel models etc. used to support your analysis.