When you are in the second year of IBMS, you are asked to write reports on these important issues: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Exports (EXP) to another continent. Both projects are the most important of the year since together sum 13 ECT credits.

FDI

The whole point of the report is to give an advise to a well-known company whether to invest or not into a specific country. You have to research the internal market, external, competitors, legal matters and of course the financial scenarios. Divided in three sections, Law 30%, Finance 40% and Marketing 30% (of the grade) and you have to come up with a report of about 25 pages.

The workload is not as much as with EXP, since you have weekly seminars and you don’t actually have to hand in anything (anything for a real grade, just a few drafts) till the end of the project, so if you are smart enough, you can write the whole thing 2 weeks before the deadline and still pass.

Export

The whole concept is about you working for a global company and you have to research a South american country and decide whether is feasible to export your services to that country. It consists of weekly seminars where you have to hand in chapters of the report. Every chapter graded individually, so you better write them nicely. Also divided but in 4 sections.

The difficulty of these projects depends also on the teachers you get for each part. However I’ll discuss that in other post, so far, that was what you can expect from these projects.

Under the page “projects” you can get old versions of these projects. Have a look but don’t copy paste info, you might get caught, instead> try to get inspired… or in the worse of the cases: REWRITE!!!

So the question that arises is: Which one sucks the most??

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