CASE 2: VALUING CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS CORPORATE FINANCE GROUP Y Growth Enterprises‚ Inc When valuing any project‚ the free cash flows must be determined in order to be able to successfully implement any method of capital budgeting. Growth Enterprises is currently considering four projects. Each has an equal required initial investment of $10‚000‚000 which is followed by a set of cash flows different for each project. Depreciation figures for each project were calculated on a straight-line
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Business School 9-298-092 Rev. December 4‚ 1998 Valuing Capital Investment Projects 1. Growth Enterprises‚ Inc. (GEI) has $40 million that it can invest in any or all of the four capital investment projects‚ which have cash flows as shown in Table 1 below. Table 1 Comparison of Project Cash Flows* ($ thousands) Year of Cash Flow Project A. B. C. D. Type of Cash Flow Year 0 Investment Revenue Operating expenses ($10‚000) Investment Revenue Operating expenses ($10‚000) Investment Revenue Operating
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FINS5530 HBS Case Assignment Semester 2‚ 2013 Instructor: Lixiong Guo Readings: 1. Note on Bank Loans. 2. US Bank of Washington case. Assignment: Please prepare a Credit Proposal Memo similar to the one shown in Exhibit 1 of “Note on Bank Loans”. Given the limited information you have from the case‚ you are not expected to include all components of Exhibit 1. The following is a suggested structure of your report: Purpose of the credit extension o Keep this part short
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inability to effectively track school and student progress‚ Stacey Boyd and HBS classmate Mandy Lee founded Project Achieve‚ an information management system for schools. In a quickly changing industry with fast-moving competitors‚ Project Achieve aimed to use leading-edge technology to reduce the workload of teachers and administrators while simultaneously keeping parents and students aware of performance. In an attempt to raise capital from an array of investors‚ Boyd needed to assess the firm’s value before
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Management – Professor Dahiya 09/12/10 Case 1 We feel that General Foods Corporation ought to go ahead with the Super Project. While we feel the incremental costs approach lacks a certain degree of sufficiency in taking into account all overhead‚ we believe the $453‚000 cost of using the existing Jell-O facilities would have already been accounted for on the Jell-O balance sheet and thus is a non-factor in determining the profitability of the Super Project. Simply adding the cost of erosion to Jell-O’s
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Chapter 6 Capital investment:regardless of whether they involve a tangible or intangiable asset. The incestment creates wealth if the discounted value of the future cash flow exceeds the up front cost. The problem is what to discount- stick to these rules: 1. Only cash flow is relevant. Net present value depends on future cash flows it’s the difference between cash received and cash paid out. Cash should be recorded only when they occur and not when work is undertaken or a liability is incurred
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* Explain how Dell’s working capital policy is a competitive advantage for the company? Dell uses a just in time order fulfillment policy and accurate forecasting of sales to minimize inventories. This allowed Dell to hold inventory of finished products far below levels of their competitors (10-20% compared to 50-70% industry level) and furthermore allowed them to quickly implement changes to their product lines as new technologies became available. This quick inventory turnover also allowed Dell
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School of Management Office: 3212 Gallagher Hall Course Focus Tel: 530.754.8076 e-mail: ascherbina@ucdavis.edu We will learn how to use financial information to value firms‚ projects‚ and securities in a wide variety of industries‚ including real estate. The course will be based entirely on the Harvard Business School case studies and will focus on learning techniques of financial analysis‚ selecting an appropriate valuation model‚ analyzing the quality of financial data‚ finding an appropriate
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Questions for HBS case “Marriott Corporation: The cost of capital” 1) Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? In my opinion‚ the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy are consistent with its growth objective. As we find in the case‚ the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy: Manage rather than own hotel assets‚ Invest in projects that increase shareholder value‚ Optimize the use of debt in the capital structure‚ and
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Thoma Bravo – Citect Corporation (HBS 9-209-022) Study Questions 1. Do you think TB or Schneider would create more value as the owner of Citect? 2. TB would assume what risks if they are the winning bidder? 3. Should TB continue to bid on Citect and at what price? Are the expected ROIs and IRRs to TB sufficient at your revised bid amount? (* note: a detailed evaluation model will be constructed during the class session *) Study Questions 1. Is Newell just another conglomerate? How
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