Imagine you are a manager working at a publicly traded company. My selected publicly traded company is Nordstrom, Inc. You have been tasked with preparing aninvestment proposal for a large bank loan to finance a major expansion into another country. Your funding request will include both narrative text and financialmodels designed to clearly explain and justify the investment proposal, how it will be financed, and its likely impact on the company. As support, you will showthe proposal’s most likely financial implications and the consolidated financial projection with and without the project. You should also consider risks—includingglobal microeconomic factors outside the company that may affect the investment’s success in the targeted country—and describe alternative financial scenariosshould sales exceed or under perform your assumptions.Your funding request should be well organized, clear, concise, and free of distracting errors. Because business executives seldom have perfect or completeinformation, you should base your proposal on data from authoritative sources when possible and make reasonable assumptions where information is notavailable. As in real life, however, you must clearly specify your assumptions.To begin, choose one of the following publicly traded companies. Once you have chosen your company, you will determine the investment opportunity for whichyou are seeking funding as well as the country into which your company will be expanding: