NOVA School of Business and Economics Corporate Finance‚ 2nd Semester 2012/2013 Case Study TOSCO is a company listed in the Portuguese Stock Exchange operating a supermarket chain established in Portugal for many years. The market for traditional food retailers is saturated‚ and there is no room for growth under the same business model. TOSCO’s shareholders have been pressuring the management to pursue new opportunities in order to increase the value of their shares. The management
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CASE 1- ABINGTON-HILL TOYS‚ INC. PART I – INTRODUCTION Abington Hill Toys‚ Inc‚ a seasonal business that dependent on holiday season‚ which is a high-risk company that would easily results in costly for company to restore inventories in the non-holiday seasons. In this case‚ because of no successor due to the death of Lewis Hill‚ the last founder of the company‚ and the slowly deteriorated financial condition as Mr. Hill was running the company’s final years‚ the stockholders decided to
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Problem of Teenagers using electronic devices in school Nowadays teenagers and children are using cell phones at a younger age than any previous generation. The most problem is they do not having attention in their class and teacher. They do playing video games‚ researching on the phones‚ and text messaging with their friends while the teacher is talking and teaching. So‚ teachers say such items that electronic devices: phone‚ tablet and I-pod can disturb their students study during
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1) We do not agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation because she mistakenly used historical data to estimate the future cost of debt. Joanna calculated the cost of debt by taking the interest expense for 2001 and dividing it by the average debt balance. The cost of debt for Nike is the effective rate that it pays on its current debt‚ meaning the yield to maturity of bonds should be used to make an estimate instead of the average debt balance. Through the use of past data‚ the average balance
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CASE PROBLEM: President’s Advisors President gets advice from his pool of advisers every time he needs to make a decision. He has 13 top advisers that he really relies on. But if all of them are involved in any decision‚ they always end up in an argument where more often than not‚ the final decision is not achieved. To resolve this‚ a scheme was devised where only 5 of the 13 will be randomly chosen to decide on a certain matter. They achieved this by having the 13 advisers arrange themselves
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Synopsis BPO‚ Inc. is a professional service organization that offers clients a range of services from risk management and insurance to management consulting. The company has grown and profited from the developing trend in the 90’s and 2000’s of companies outsourcing business processes‚ such as human resources and claims processing. Presently‚ BPO has launched a six sigma initiative to identify areas for process improvement and financial savings in the Human Resource Outsourcing department. Concurrently
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Mini Case Report – The Dilemma at Day-Pro 1) PayBack Period for Synthetic Resin and Epoxy Resin: Synthetic Resin PBP = 2 + 250/200 = 2.5 years Epoxy Resin PBP = 1 + 200/400 = 1.5 years To show that using the Payback Period to evaluate the projects is flawed‚ Tim can argue that the PayBack Period ignores the time value of money‚ requires an arbitrary cutoff point‚ ignores cash flows beyond the cutoff date‚ and is biased against long-term projects‚ such as research and development‚ and new projects
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Netflix‚ Inc. Case October 2‚ 2011 1. Netflix‚ Inc. has several competitive advantages in the movie rental business. * The strongest advantage they have would be the comprehensive library of titles that they are able to offer to their customers. They have developed a strong relationship with top studios and distributors to enable them to offer a broad selection. Netflix’s is constantly adding new releases and carrying numerous copies of the popular titles. * High levels of customer
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Overview Blades‚ Inc.‚ is a USA based company that has been in corporate in the United States for three years. Blade relatively is a small Company‚ with total assets of only $200 million. The company produces only a single type of roller blade. Ben Holt the CFO of the Blades Inc. Financial Information Total assets of was only $200 million and first year net income of $3.5 million. Return on asset is 7%. It stock price has fallen from high of $20 per share three years ago to $12
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In order to decide on an IPO price‚ we must look at the current financial position of the company‚ as well as make projections for possible future scenarios. From the data given‚ we know that Prairie Home Stores (PHS) has a current book value of $80‚000‚000. With 400‚000 outstanding shares‚ the book equity per share is $200. There are two possible paths for future performance to consider. The first‚ a constant growth scenario‚ assumes that PHS will continue on its current trajectory of paying
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