Caledonia Products Integrative Problem 1. Why should Caledonia focus on project free cash flows as opposed to the accounting profits earned by the project when analyzing whether to undertake the project? Free cash flows are being focused on because it the amount that Caledonia will receive and they will be able to reinvest that amount. Caledonia should analyze the free cash flow so that they are able to see the real amount of value or what the cost may be. The marginal value from the project would
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Caledonia Project Caledonia Project FIN/370 Julie Vogt January 9‚ 2012 Week 4 Team project was to answer question 12 a-e on page 363‚ Chapter 10 of Financial Management: Principles and Applications. 12. Caledonia is considering two additional mutually exclusive projects. The cash flows associated with these projects are as follows: YEAR | PROJECT A | PROJECT B | 0 | -$100‚000 | -$100‚000 | 1 | 32‚000 | 0 | 2 | 32‚000 | 0 | 3 | 32‚000 | 0 | 4 | 32‚000 | 0 | 5 | 32
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Caledonia Products Integrative Problem July 31‚ 2013 Yvette “Betsy” Stewart 1. Why should Caledonia focus on project free cash flows as opposed to the accounting profits earned by the project when analyzing whether to undertake the project? It is important that Caledonia Company should focus on the free cash flows instead of the accounting profits. With the free cash flows that the company receives they can reinvest. To accurately analyze the timing of the benefit
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Internal Rate of Return In investment decision analysis you may need to calculate internal rate of return. “Internal rate of return (IRR) is the discount rate that gives the project a zero NPV” (McLaney‚ 2006). It is a good choice to use for investment projects. There is a formula for the internal rate of return: (A is the lower discount rate and B is the higher rate‚ a is the NPV at the lower rate and b is the NPV at the higher rate.) For example the Net Present Value (NPV) is 88 when the
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Caledonia Products As a new intern for Caledonia Products‚ my CEO‚ Mr. V. Morrison has given me one of my first unsupervised assignments will be to provide the company with a financial analyst‚ that will include providing the calculations of cash flows associated with a new investment that the company is considering investing in. As I am an intern‚ I have not been asked to provide a recommendation just an analyst. (Keown Martin‚ Petty 11) Reviewing the information provided‚ Caledonia
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INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN Many companies wants to have a return on their investment in a few years and begin to evaluate their projects optimistically calculating an internal rate of real return not yielding results in the end. This does not end up being expected by the companies; According to the article the authors John C. Kelleher and Justin J. MacCormack . They suggest that there is a tendency to a risky behavior‚ Companies started to run the risk of creating unrealistic numbers for themselves
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Internal Rate of Return Meaning of Capital Budgeting Capital budgeting can be defined as the process of analyzing‚ evaluating‚ and deciding whether resources should be allocated to a project or not. Capital budgeting addresses the issue of strategic long-term investment decisions. Process of capital budgeting ensure optimal allocation of resources and helps management work towards the goal of shareholder wealth maximization. Why Capital Budgeting is so Important? Involve
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Caledonia Products Company is introducing a new product. With previous fallouts from the company and ranging a 34% marginal tax bracket with a 15% required rate of return or cost of capital the change of direction is to initiate the new plan. Mr. V. Morrison‚ CEO‚ Caledonia products is asking for professional guidance to analyze his current cash flow statement to determine if the project of adding two mutually exclusive projects is profitable. Therefore‚ as an Assistant Financial Analyst‚ is take
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| |Initial investment |$12‚000 |$12‚000 | |Annual rate of return | | |Pessimistic |16% |10% | |Most likely |20% |20% | |Optimistic |24% |30% | a. Determine the range of the rates of return for each of the two projects. b. Which project is less risky? Why? c. If
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Caledonia Products Penicia Rooks BUS401: Principles of Finance Instructor Richard Burke March 4th‚ 2013 Caledonia Products Caledonia should focus on cash flows and not accounting profits when making capital-budgeting decisions. This is because free cash flows is received by the firm and then is able to be reinvested. Accounting profits are only shown once they have been earned instead of when the money is actually in hand (Kewon‚ Martin & Petty
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