Midland Energy Resources‚ Cost of Capital The case is about how Janet Mortensen‚ senior vice president of project finance for Midland Energy Resources‚ prepare her annual cost of capital estimates for midland and each of its three divisions for her company. Midland was a global energy company with operations in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P)‚ refining and marketing(R&M)‚ and petrochemicals. Estimates of cost of capital prepared by Mortensen were used in many analyses within
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money they need to earn a rate of return that exceeds their cost of capital. We can estimate a company’s cost of capital in the following way: WACC = (rD)(1-T)(WD) + (rS)(WS) Go to one of the databases from Part 1 of the Course Project and look up the most recent 10-K for your company‚ paying special attention to the balance sheet and the footnotes. Although we should use market value weights when determining a firm’s cost of capital‚ this may be difficult to determine for a firm with multiple
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) 1. How does Marriott use its estimate of cost of capital? Does this make sense? Marriot use cost of capital as the hurdle rate (minimum rate of return required to accept the project) to discount future cash flows for the investment projects of the three lines of business (Lodging‚ Contract Services and Restaurants). They use this rate to calculate NPV and net present value over cost to decide for the profit rate. Since cost of the project
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of all parties involved if both the bride and groom are from the same social and economic class. As Serena Nanda revealed the chosen bride will be highly esteemed‚ religious‚ soft-spoken and modest. She rarely gossip and will avoid conflict at all cost. Both bride and groom will be what each family will choose as a great representation of their family. When a groom is chosen by his in-laws his education speaks volumes. A groom with a top notch education portrays
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The Oceanic Corporation (Determining the Cost of Capital) Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate because it is a benchmark for how well the company needs to do on a project in order to at least break even. The higher the hurdle rate‚ the riskier the project will have to be and the lower the hurdle rate is‚ the safer the project will be for a company. A company should strive for a financing mix that minimizes the hurdle rate and matches the assets being financed. If there
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------------------------------------------------- Abstract: The case examines Marriott International’s (Marriott) various innovative HR practices‚ which earned it the reputation of being ’the best place to work’ in the hospitality industry. It describes Marriott’s ’Spirit to Serve’ culture and the company’s HR philosophy which guided its various HR initiatives. The case gives an overview of the best practices employed by the company in the recruitment‚ selection‚ training and development of employees
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AACE International Recommended Practice No. 34R-05 BASIS OF ESTIMATE TCM Framework: 7.3 – Cost Estimating and Budgeting Acknowledgments: Todd Pickett‚ CCC (Author) Peter R. Bredehoeft‚ Jr. Ted A. Downen Larry R. Dysert‚ CCC Bruce G. Elliott‚ CCC John K. Hollmann‚ PE CCE Copyright 2010 AACE International‚ Inc. Stephen M. Jacobson CCC Carlton W. Karlik‚ PE Christopher L. Kinney Donald F. McDonald‚ Jr. PE CCE PSP Bernard A. Pietlock CCC Richard A. Selg‚ CCE AACE International Recommended Practices
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commercial establishments and people will ultimately bring about problems in solid waste. In order to address/response to this problems‚ measures and steps must be taken‚ among which are the provision of solid waste management service‚ provision of more cost effective collection and hauling services‚ development and implementation of other solid waste disposal approaches such as sanitary landfill‚ incineration and waste to energy disposal scheme. Generation rates: Rural – 0.3 kg/person/day Urban
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se | 2010 | | BUSI 640 Leigh Healey Alex Lutz November 30th | [Marriott Case Study] | Professor Triantis | 1. What is the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for Marriott Corporation based on its target debt-equity ratio? Use a 34% tax rate. WACC = [(E/D+E) * Re] + [(D/D+E) * Rd(1-Tc)] Be = [1 + (1-Tc) d/e]*Ba 1.11 = [1+(1-.34}.41/.59]*Ba Ba = .76098 Using statistics from page four of the assigned case study: Risk Free rate (Rf) = 8.72 % (10yr rate)
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barrier far more vast than any in existence today between two dialects. Multi-Regionalists tend to argue in favor of the Neanderthal’s capability to use language. A major genetic piece of evidence that they call upon to support their assertion is the existence of the FoxP2‚ “language”‚ gene which is prevalent in Neanderthals. Although this gene does contribute greatly to the human comprehension of language it is not significant enough to hold up speech capabilities on its own. “...FoxP2 is not unique
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