Sunday‚ March 15‚ 2009 COST OF CAPITAL AT AES Evaluating the Historical Capital Budgeting Method Currently AES employs Project Finance Framework. Project finance tends to be used in projects with tangible assets with predictable cash flows in which construction and operating targets can be easily established through explicit contract. The key to AES projects financing lies with the precise forecasting of cash flows. In effect‚ the possibility of estimating cash flows with an acceptable
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Human Resources at the AES Corporation: The Case of the Missing Department discuss the effectiveness of AES’ approach to HRM‚ and make recommendations for the future. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 4 ADVANTAGES OF AES’ APPROACH 5 CONCERNS 6 RISKS GOING FORWARD 7 RECOMMENDATIONS 8 CONCLUSION 9 APPENDIX 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 INTRODUCTION AES’ annual results speak for themselves‚ financial data available‚ from 1991 to 1996 shows that
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where performance is really an issue‚ symmetrical encryption is most often used. AES is a symmetrical encryption standard. The Advanced Encryption Standard‚ or AES is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of standards and technology in 2001. It is based on the Rijndael cipher‚ and was developed by two Belgian cryptographers‚ Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen . AES is based in a design principlae known as a substitution-permutation network‚ and
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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Most of lecture slides by Lawrie Brown Origins clear a replacement for DES was needed have theoretical attacks that can break it have demonstrated exhaustive key search attacks can use Triple-DES – but slow‚ has small blocks US NIST issued call for ciphers in 1997 15 candidates accepted in Jun 98 5 were shortlisted in Aug-99 Rijndael was selected as the AES in Oct-2000 issued as FIPS PUB 197 standard in Nov-2001 AES Requirements private key symmetric
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Strategy AES distinguishes itself through developing new products and applications at a low cost. It is committed to social responsibility and empowering its employees through its four main principles which include integrity‚ fairness‚ social responsibility and fun. It is "different" from other corporations because AES is focused on retaining its core values and culture as the corporation expands in size. The company ’s sources of sustainable competitive advantage include technical leadership
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#1. AES’ organizational structure can best be classified as a non-bureaucratic‚ flat organization structure with the key goal of empowerment of individuals to run their respective areas for the common good of the whole organization. The honeycomb design described in the case evidences a variety of pods or families with a team leader where each family of 10 to 20 individuals work on specific functions in a plant. For example‚ beneath the plant manager you have a number of functions such as the
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Case 3: Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES Question 1 Explain and comment on the capital budgeting method used historically by AES. Is there a need for change? Explain. Question 2 If Venerus implements the suggested methodology‚ what will be the adjusted discount rate for the Red Oak project (USA) and the Lal Plr project (Pakistan)? Question 3 Calculate the effect that a revision of its cost of capital will have on the Lal Plr project’s NPV. Comment on the
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By doing so‚ Scholey wanted the AES-Telasi could have the same standard of other AES distribution operations. One of the key investments was meter household to link consumption. Consistent with the AES model of empowerment‚ line-level employees would be allowed to decide which investments were appropriate. II. Combating corruption. Started negotiating with a state-owned company that had a legal monopoly on the import of electricity from Russia. He knew the AES needed reliable supplies in order
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AES - Case Analysis & Write up How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What is good and bad about it? Previously‚ the economics of a given project were evaluated at an equity discount rate for the dividends from any project and as it was mostly financed through local debt‚ which was non-recourse to the parent company‚ AES use to evaluate the dividend cash flows at a standard 12%. It is a simple approach with portions of sound reasoning. One could argue that
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? “When AES undertook primarily domestic contract generation projects where the risk of changes to input and output prices was minimal‚ a project finance framework was employed.” Usually‚ project finance framework is used when the project has predictable cash flows‚ which can easily represent operating targets through explicit contract. When cash flows are certainty‚ the company can have
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