importance of capital Budgeting In the world of business‚ capital budgeting is one of the most important steps that a company can take. Many in the business world do not properly understand the importance of capital budgeting. Here are the basics of capital budgeting and why it is important to businesses. What Is Capital Budgeting? Capital budgeting is a process that attempts to determine the future. Before any large project begins‚ the capital budgeting process should be utilized. Without capital budgeting
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Established in January 1999‚ Pine Street Capital (PSC) was a market-neutral hedge fund that specialized in the technology field‚ facing market risk and trying to decide whether and which way to use in order to hedge equity market risk. They choose technology sector because the partners of PSC felt that they have enough ability to evaluate this sector and specially be good at picking out-performing stock. Short-selling of NASDAQ and options hedging strategy are the two major hedging choices for PSC
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Review of Capital Budgeting 1. The Kramer Tool Company has a photocopying machine that it purchased two years ago for $70‚000. The machine is being depreciated straight line over 5 years to a zero salvage value. A competing firm is offering a new photocopying machine that cost $60‚000 and can be depreciated over 5 years to a zero salvage value. Kramer has been assured that the new machine can be sold for $10‚000 after five years. The new machine requires less maintenance and operator attendance
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chp-14.qxd 10/18/05 12:48 PM Page 145 CHAPTER 14 Working Capital Management I n the chapters on ‘Planning an SSI Unit’ and ‘ Business Plan’‚ a discussion was made on the fixed capital and the working capital. Every business needs investment to procure fixed assets‚ which remain in use for a longer period. Money invested in these assets is called ‘Long term Funds’ or ‘Fixed Capital’. Business also needs funds for short-term purposes to finance current operations. Investment
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short-term debts when they mature. An organization must manage its working capital in order to stay in business. It is also the habit of most of the organization to prefer purchasing goods on credit basis rather than paying cash‚ this is because the system ensures them of getting items even at a time they fall a shortage of cash or that the cash they have at a point of time can be invested in other things to generate more income. However the problems arise when it comes to the point of paying back
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Plc-Cost of Capital Objective: Lex service Plc sold its various subsidiaries and other assets in between 1991 and 1993 which provides more than £340 million of funds. To reinvest this huge amount of funds it evaluates many investment options and acquisitions. To evaluate the worth of new investments‚ Lex uses discounted cash flow analysis. In order to employ DCF analysis method‚ discount rate or cost of capital required. Now the question is arises ‘what should be real cost of capital’. Case Analysis:
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Capital investment decisions are those decisions that involve current outlays in return for a stream of benefits in future years. It is true to say that all the firm ’s expenditures are made in expectation of realizing future benefits. Investment decisions are extremely important because they have a major long term effect on a firm ’s operations. For example‚ when BMW decided to build some of its cars in Greece‚ South Carolina‚ it made an investment in additional productive capacity that will affect
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During the course of operations of any company‚ once the capital budgeting decisions have been made and proposals selected‚ the most important question before the finance manager is to arrange sufficient funds to finance them. Funds are also required to keep existing projects going on and the company can raise funds required for investment either by increasing the owners’ claims or the creditors’ claims or both. The claims of the owners increases when the company raises the funds by issuing equity
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Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important? Murray Z. Frank and Vidhan K. Goyal∗ This paper examines the relative importance of many factors in the capital structure decisions of publicly traded American firms from 1950 to 2003. The most reliable factors for explaining market leverage are: median industry leverage (+ effect on leverage)‚ market-to-book assets ratio (−)‚ tangibility (+)‚ profits (−)‚ log of assets (+)‚ and expected inflation (+). In addition‚ we find
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Evaluate the different methods of capital investment appraisal available to organisations and clearly show when each method would be used (if at all) illustrating your answer with relevant examples. Capital investment appraisal can be described as the decision-making process used by organisations to evaluate different investments and to decide which fixed assets to purchase. In the following‚ four different methods of investment appraisal shall be discussed: accounting rate of return (ARR)‚ payback
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