Corporate Finance and Investment 1. Define “Working Capital” Working Capital=Current Assets-Current Liabilities =Accounts Receivable + Inventory - Accounts Payable “Working capital is how much in liquid assets that a company has on hand. Working capital is needed to pay for planned and unexpected expenses‚ meet the short-term obligations of the business‚ and to build the business.” 2. Give concrete measures how w.c. can be optimized (receivable‚ inventories (JIT
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6060 Financial Management Summer 2011 Prof. Jonathan Clarke Case 3: cost of Capital at Ameritrade Group Members: Kristin Fadeley Venkata Kuppusamy Benedikt Schroeder Yogesh Vasisht Manoj Vattakkunnel Question 1: What factors should Ameritrade management consider when evaluating the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades? Why? In a nutshell‚ Ameritrade’s management should do a cost-benefit analysis‚ comparing proposed investments into technology upgrades
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APPENDIX APPENDIX. CALCULATING NATIONAL LOGISTICS COSTS Logistics costs are an important factor affecting the competitiveness of both firms and nations. Firms can enhance their market competitiveness by reducing their logistics costs‚ thus lowering the total costs of goods and services. Greater market competitiveness of a nation’s firms can then give rise to greater national industrial competitiveness on a global scale. Total logistics cost analysis is the key to managing the logistics function
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true. Question 3 (10 points) Moogle‚ Inc. is in the same business as Google‚ Inc.‚ but has recently retired all its debt to become an all-equity firm. Its return on equity has dropped from 12.25% to 10.60% as a result of this. Google‚ Inc. continues to have debt in its capital structure‚ and its debt-to-equity ratio is 30%. What is the return on assets of Google‚ Inc.(No more than two decimals in the percentage interest rate‚ but do not enter the % sign.) Answer for Question 3 Question 4 (10
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Ameritrade Cost of Capital FIN 700 11/14/06 Cohort B-Team 3 Introduction Ameritrade CEO Joe Ricketts contracted our firm‚ B3 Investment Consultants‚ to provide quantitative analysis of a prospective project – entering the deep discount brokerage market. Based on the directives given by Mr. Ricketts‚ the primary focus of our analysis has been to derive an accurate estimate of the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for this
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Corporation: The Cost of Capital 1. Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? 2. How does Marriott use its estimate of its cost of capital? Does this make sense? 3. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott Corporation? a. What risk free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? b. How did you measure Marriott’s cost of debt? 4. If Marriott used a single corporate hurdle rate for evaluating investment
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Cost of Capital Definition: cost of capital is the rate of return that a company must earn on its project investments to maintain its market value and attract funds. The cost of capital to a company is the minimum rate of return that is must earn on its investments in order to satisfy the various categories of investors‚ who have made investments in the form of shares ‚ debentures and loans. The cost of capital in operational terms refers to the discount rate that would be used in determining the
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Chapter 8 The Cost of Capital 236 CHAPTER 8—THE COST OF CAPITAL TRUE/FALSE 1. Capital refers to items on the right-hand side of a firm’s balance sheet. 2. The component costs of capital are market-determined variables in as much as they are based on investors’ required returns. 3. The cost of debt is equal to one minus the marginal tax rate multiplied by the coupon rate on outstanding debt. 4. The cost of issuing preferred stock by a corporation must be adjusted to an after-tax
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What’s your real cost of capital? By James J. McNulty‚ Tony D. Yeh‚ William s. Schulze‚ and Michael H. Lubatkin Harvard Business Review‚ October 2002 Issue of the article: valuing investment projects Number of pages: 12 Daniel Miravet Campos Part 1. Executive summary This article is fundamentally based on the exposition of a new method to calculate the cost of capital for a company (MCPM)‚ to meet the inefficiencies of the current one (CAPM). In valuing any investment project or
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Cost of Capital at Ameritrade Christoph Schneider Ross School of Business Basic assumptions Tax Rate Beta Debt Leverage (D/V) Leverage (D/E) 1997 35.5% 0.25 0.00 0.00 1996 39.4% 1995 35.1% Average 36.7% Comparable companies’ βE Tax Rate Beta Debt Leverage (D/V) Leverage (D/E) Discount Brokerage Firms Charles Schwab Quick & Reilly Waterhouse Securities 1997 35.5% 1996 39.4% β E from Jan’92-Dec’96 2.30 2.20 β E from all months 2.35 2.30
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