CASE 1 - A CASE STUDY OF VICTORIA CHEMICALS Corporate Finance (FEG304) Table of Contents 1.0) Introduction This report contains two case studies in the discourse of Corporate Finance‚ more specifically capital investment strategy. The cases are applied on the fictional company Victoria Chemicals and are divided into (A): “The Merseyside Project and Victoria Chemicals” and (B): “The Merseyside and Rotterdam project”. The cases are picked from the book “Case Studies
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Victoria Chemicals: The Merseyside Project Executive Summary Victoria Chemicals is facing pressures from investors to improve its financial performances. The plant manager is currently considering whether to accept a GBP 12million initial outlay project to renovate its polypropylene production line at Merseyside plant. The benefit of the plant is the lower energy requirement of production and a greater manufacturing capacity. This report consist a recommendation for the plant manager which consists
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Empirical Formula Lab Class: Chemistry 1405 Fall 2013 Aim: The aim of this Lab Exercise is to use the mass of a chemical and use that mass to find the amount of moles of the final product you can get using the empirical formula. Introduction: The empirical formula of a compound is the simplest whole-number ratio of the elements in the compound‚ which as you will discover‚ is a ratio of the moles of those elements. “Empirical” also means “experimentally determined”. In this experiment
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Week 3 - Victoria Chemicals PLC 1. What changes‚ if any‚ should the plant manager (Morris) ask the financial controller (Greystock) to make to his analysis? Morris should ask the Financial Controller to the make the following changes to his analysis: • Include the cost of the rolling stock. These would become an essential asset of the Merseyside Works. The investment to occur in 2010 and then depreciated over the following 10 years. These would become an asset of the Merseyside works. • Ignore
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I am pleased to share my concerns‚ analysis and recommendation about the Merseyside Project with you. Your DCF analysis is excellent and helpful. However‚ I have to make some changes to it. The memo will be divided into 6 parts. Suggestions for Merseyside project: P1 What should change in the DCF analysis and why: P1-P3 Other important issues: P3-P4 Evaluation of each investment Criteria: P4-P5 Ultimate recommendation and forward looking: P5-P6 Revised DCF analysis: Appendix
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The use of the Empirical Rule When the mean=median and the values often tend to cluster around the mean and median‚ producing a bell-shaped distribution. Then we can use the empirical rule to examine the variability. Usually in this bell-shaped data set‚ we can calculate the mean the standard deviation. The mean means the average value of this set of data. The standard deviation means the average scatter around the mean. If we allow[pic]to represents the mean and[pic]to represents the standard
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J Bus Psychol (2010) 25:201–210 DOI 10.1007/s10869-010-9165-6 A Review of the Empirical Evidence on Generational Differences in Work Attitudes Jean M. Twenge Published online: 18 February 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC 2010 Abstract Purpose This article reviews the evidence for generational differences in work values from time-lag studies (which can separate generation from age/career stage) and cross-sectional studies (which cannot). Understanding generational shifts
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INTRODUCTION Diamond Chemicals a major global competitor in the chemical industry and a leading producer of polypropylene. In 2001 the Corporation was facing losses in earnings and the slowdown of the global economy. The Earning per Share (EPS) had fallen by 50% from 1999 to 2000. The controller of the plant in Merseyside proposed a project of £9 million to renovate and rationalize the polypropylene production line at the plant to compensate for deferred maintenance and to exploit opportunities
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Chemistry pre- IB Empirical Formula Observations/Qualitative Data: I have used my sense to observe that the magnesium is a solid that is bendable‚ is very light and its color is silver. After being put in a Crucible covered by a lid‚ under a Bunsen burner for a few minutes‚ it has lit up and turned red. After the experiment was over‚ the magnesium was turned into an ash/powdery state and its color became white/grey. Data collection and Processing (DCP): Quantitative Data: Weight in grams
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Case 20: Diamond Chemicals plc (A) --PT07 Group 10 INTRODUCTION: Diamond Chemicals is a large worldwide chemicals producer with two factories in Liverpool England and Rotterdam Holland. Both of their plants were built in 1967 with annual output of 250‚000 metric tons polypropylene. Compare with low-cost producer‚ the production cost per ton is 1.09 which is a little bit high than competitors (see Exhibition 1). With the decline EPS from £60 in 1999 to £30 in 2000 and worldwide economic slowdown
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