Final Exam Practice Problems 1. Firm ABC’s only outstanding debt is $100‚000 worth of coupon bond (market value). Its yield to maturity is 8%. Given that its tax rate is 40%‚ what is its effective cost of debt? Effective cost of debt = cost of debt * (1-tax rate) =8%*(1-40%)=4.8% 2. Firm ABC has a stock currently traded at $20. The next year’s dividend will be $0.20. The dividend growth rate is forecasted to be 6% forever. Risk-free rate is 3%‚ and market risk premium is 4%. Assume that Constant
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24. We can use the debt-equity ratio to calculate the weights of equity and debt. The debt of the company has a weight for long-term debt and a weight for accounts payable. We can use the weight given for accounts payable to calculate the weight of accounts payable and the weight of long-term debt. The weight of each will be: Accounts payable weight = .15/1.15 = .13 Long-term debt weight = 1/1.15 = .87 Since the accounts payable has the same cost as the overall WACC‚ we can write the equation for
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Corporate Social Responsibility MBA 688 Jurtyne R. Youngblood December 13‚ 2014 The social responsibility of corporations. It pertains to consideration of‚ and response to‚ issues beyond the narrow economic‚ technical‚ and legal requirements of the firm to accomplish social benefits along with the traditional economic gains that the firm seeks. The corporate responsibility of firms have been put to the side by managers‚ today the issues are now first on the corporate agenda (Peng‚ p. 363)
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innovation and growth in every endeavor: HCLT is committed to supporting quality processes and employee productivity through a working environment and culture in which they feel appreciated and allow innovation to thrive. * To be responsible corporate citizens: They believe in encouraging a sense of social responsibility and to give back to society. They take pride in being a company with a strong social conscience. They firmly believe that every drop counts and every step aimed at helping the
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director in corporate governance Contents INTRODUCTION “Corporate Governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled.”1 Corporate governance is integral to the existence of a company. It inspires and strengthens investor confidence by ensuring company’s commitment to higher growth and profits. The overall objectives of governance should be to maximize long term value and shareholders’ wealth. Corporate governance
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Corporate social responsibility is a business philosophy that stresses the importance of keeping the best interests of the wider society in mind. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development in its publication Making Good Business Sense by Lord Holme and Richard Watts‚ used the following definition. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce
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List and briefly describe the three basic questions addressed by a financial manager. What should be the goal of the financial manager of a corporation? Why? What advantages does the corporate form of organization have over sole proprietorships or partnerships? If the corporate form of business organization has so many advantages over the sole proprietorship‚ why is it so common for small businesses to initially be formed as sole proprietorships? The three areas are: 1. Capital budgeting: The
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Final draft English Assessment Essay 1 Why organisations still implement CSR policies despite opposition from their shareholders Word count:464 Corporate social Responsibility (CSR) is now widely accomplished in business. The term CSR is a process with the aim to embrace responsibility for the company’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment. In another word
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entire spectrum of today’s business environment; in fact‚ there are a number of companies whose competitive advantages are based on “good” corporate governance practices – namely stakeholder involvement. As a result‚ I have chosen to present and explore in this essay the practices of one such company: the Toyota Motor Corporation while highlighting its “good” corporate governance principles. 2.0 TOYOTA Toyota is a global leader in automotive sales‚ technology and production while also retaining one
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Corporate governance convergence practice in Japan Introduction In recent years‚ there are a number of literatures with regard to the debatable and inevitable convergence in the corporate governance practices (Yoshikawa & Rasheed‚ 2009). In general‚ corporate governance convergence relate to the models of corporate governance‚ in which merge in practices and theoretical views especially at national or multinational level (West‚ 2009). West (2009) also stated that the completely convergence which
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