Assignment | Cost of Capital‚ Capital Budgeting and Financial Planning | Chapter(s) | 9‚ 10‚ 12 | Group Name | | Student Name(s) | | Date | | Instructions: HW Assignments will be uploaded to Kean Blackboard and must be accessed from there. You must work in groups where assigned (or independently if not assigned to groups) on homework assignments. Points are noted against each question. You are required to submit Home Work assignments electronically on Kean Blackboard using MS-Office
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LECTURE 10 COST OF CAPITAL CLASS QUESTIONS 1. Roland Corporation’s last dividend (D0)‚ which was paid yesterday‚ was $2.50. The firm has a constant growth of 18.8%. The firm’s beta coefficient is 1.2. The required return on an average stock in the market is 13 percent‚ and the risk-free rate is 7 percent. Roland’s A-rated bonds are yielding 10 percent‚ its risk premium is 4% and its current stock price is $30. Which of the following values is the most reasonable estimate of Roland’s cost of retained
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GLOBALIZING THE COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL BUDGETING AT AES 1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? 2. If you implemented the methodology suggested by Venerus‚ what would be the range of discount rates one would use around the world? 3. Does this make sense as a way to do capital budgeting? 4. How big a value difference does this new approach make to the Pakistan project? 5. How do these cost of capital modifications translate into changed probabilities
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HBR.ORG Do You Know Your Cost of Capital? Probably not‚ if your company is like most by Michael T. Jacobs and Anil Shivdasani July–AuGust 2012 reprinT r1207L For arTicLe reprinTs caLL 800-988-0886 or 617-783-7500‚ or visiT hbr.org Do You Know Your Cost Of Capital? probably not‚ if your company is like most by Michael T. Jacobs and Anil Shivdasani W With trillions of dollars in cash sitting on their balance sheets‚ corporations have never had so much money. How executives
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finance framework and the CAPM model‚ for example‚ have to say about risk? What is it? How is it approached? The traditional finance framework uses discounted expected future cash flow to determine the NPV of the project. The amount of the opportunity cost is based on a relation between the risk and return of some sort of investment. People are rational and adverse to risk and need incentive to accept risk. The incentive in finance comes in the form of higher expected returns after buying a risky asset
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appropriate hurdle rates is critical to accepting or rejecting projects‚ Marriott should be precise by calculating and using division-specific rates on division-specific projects. We used the WACC method so that our hurdle rates would reflect appropriate cost of debt and cost of equity‚ as explained in our subsequent analysis. We found Marriott’s hurdle rates: 8.646% for hotels‚ 10.94% for restaurants‚ 11.094% for contracts‚ and 9.688% for the entire company. Marriott should use the division-specific hurdle
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ACT 510 November 19‚ 2013 Do You Know Your Cost of Capital? Investing capital dollars drives the corporate strategy to newer heights in this age‚ where the business is dependent upon making sound decisions that financially intertwine for further growth and development. Within any financial team‚ analyses should be conducted uniformly across the board‚ arriving at a conducive return on investments to solidify the reasoning behind completing the future project. As Jacobs & Shivdasani point
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Owner’s Equity as a Source of Capital Sources of capital come in two forms: debt and equity. Obtaining permanent capital through equity is the capital supplied by the entity’s owners. It is the owner’s share in the financing of all the assets. Richard Scott‚ United States accounting professor wrote‚ “one of the most deep-seated‚ and incontrovertible concepts embraced by accounting theory today is that of owner’s equity.” Through analysis of the case‚ we found this to be true. There are different
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1. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriot Corporation? Briefly outline the key assumptions that you made in computing the WACC. 2. What is the cost of capital for the lodging and restaurant divisions of Marriot Corporation? Briefly outline the key assumptions that you made in computing the cost of capital and outline any limitations that are presented by your analysis. 3. If Marriot uses a single company-wide cost of capital for evaluating investment opportunities in each of its
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7 Source of Fixed and Working Capital 8 Role of entrepreneur 9 Type of Production 10 Level of Production 11 Quality Control Measure 12 Use of Technology 13 Linkages 14 Potential for growth 15 Government Regulation 16
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