Case 20: Aurora Textile Company Summary: In early 2003‚ Michael‚ CFO of Aurora Textile Company‚ is deciding whether or not to install a new machine called Zinser 351 in order to save the declined sales and increase its competitive force. In deciding whether or not to invest Zinser 351‚ it is important to get the NPV and the payback period. To get the NPV and the payback period‚ we firstly need to forecast the future cash flows that the new machine will generate. We found the ten-year NPV to be
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acquisitions. With acquisitions however‚ it increased eight days. Operating cash flow was $ 420 million while free cash flow was $ 152 million. Thus the company is already cash positive and it will get even better at that because of its focus on reducing its DWC going forward. And an improvement in the cash position is definitely required as the company has only $ 1.7 billion of cash against $ 9.3 billion of total debt. The free cash flow target for the year is set at $ 500 million for full year
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© Copy Right Reserved Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka May 2013 Examination Integrative Case Study (ICS - 405) Instructions to candidates: The Integrative Case Study (ICS - 405) of May 2013 Examination comprises of two scenarios; Scenario I‚ Scenario II and the Question paper. Scenario I Scenario I is provided in this web site and has information about the company and industry‚ on which the question paper will be based. This is not allowed in the examination hall
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Case Study: Radio One‚ Inc. - Part A Corporate Valuation Date: 21-09-2009 Instructor: Dr. Oliver Spalt Course: 323058 Corporate Valuation Faculty Economics and Business Administration‚ Tilburg University P.W. Segers J.J.T.M. Zegers 779710 722085 1. Radio One’s opportunities and risks with respect to their acquisition policy We have identified four main benefits and five major risks with respect to the desired acquisition of 12 urban stations along with the nine stations in Charlotte
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Corporate Finance Case study will be given a week before the exams * Free Cash Flow Technique * Question 1 Chapter 8 Financial Option * The Block-Scholes Option page 319 * Question 2 Earning Multiples * Excel Spreadsheet Chapter 13 QUESTION 1 20 marks QUESTION 2 Use multiples (Acquisition/Merger) 40 marks QUESTION 3 Case Study (What informs growth‚ what informs the return you are expecting) DO THE WALMART CASE AS AN EXERCISE To study cash flows Time value of money
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Why learning English is important in today’s world? As it has been suggested time and again that English has emerged as one of the most prominent global languages‚ the importance of English would be elucidated in this write-up. With the concept of global village emerging and spreading like wildfire and the significance of English securing an all time high it becomes important to learn English. Why should we learn English? We should learn English because the majority
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decision making process and Japanese decision making process? US decision making system: US decision makers strongly believe in the investment of those projects which have positive cash flows. They analyze the investment decisions with the help of NPV and IRR. The decision making method has advantage that cash flows are discounted as a result the concept of time value of money is taken into consideration in order to determine the feasibility
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Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project The maximum per-film price for the sequel rights that Arundel Partners should pay is $5.12M. If Arundel Partners were to use the traditional DCF methods to find the value of the sequel rights‚ the NPV would be -$8.42M loss per-film (see Appendix 1). Calculation Details We assume that Arundel Partners will purchase a portfolio of films similar to one used in the analysis. The average hypothetical net inflow of the sequel ($21.57M) is used to figure out the value
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in the case. We first unlevered the beta’s of 7 comparable companies and took the average to get a comparable unlevered beta for Spyder (Exhibit 1). Since we are assuming Spyder is entirely equity financed‚ its unlevered asset beta is equal to the beta of its assets. We now have a rough estimate of Spyder’s asset beta‚ we can use CAPM to calculate the cost of assets of the firm (Exhibit 2). With an appropriate discount rate‚ we can use the WACC method to discount the company’s projected cash flows
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