Solution to Case 23 Evaluating Project Risk It’s Better to Be Safe Than Sorry! Questions: 1. What seems to be wrong with the way the NPV of each project has been calculated? Indicate without any calculations‚ how Pete and John should go about recalculating the projects’ NPVs. The NPV of each project has been calculated by discounting the cash flows at the 8% before-tax cost of debt. This is incorrect. Since the company has debt‚ preferred stock and common
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A Comparison of Capital Budgeting Techniques Capital budgeting deals with setting the criteria and prescribing the process required for making capital investment choices. Choosing an investment project‚ that is‚ making a capital investment choice is ultimately a cost/benefit analysis. It requires valuing the project by comparing the payoff to its costs. Problem Value‚ rank and select investment projects Example 1. Project A Required rate year 1: year 2 year 3 year 4 year 5 Initial
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USING PROJECT FINANCE TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS Throughout most of the history of the industrialized world‚ much of the funding for large-scale public works such as the building of roads and canals has come from private sources of capital. It was only toward the end of the 19th century that public financing of large “infrastructure” projects began to dominate private finance‚ and this trend continued throughout most of the 20th century. Since the early 1980s‚ however‚ private-sector
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Corporate finance: Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize corporate value while managing the firm’s financial risks. Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial decisions of all firms‚ rather than corporations alone‚ the main concepts in the study of corporate finance
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take Bayside to sell its inventory? A. 126.1 days B. 127.9 days C. 153.8 days D. 176.5 days E. 178.9 days Inventory turnover for 2008 = $4‚060 $1‚990 = 2.04; Days’ sales in inventory = 365 2.04 = 178.9 days TEST MODEL : CHAPTER 3 CORPORATE FINANCE Page 1 2. What is the debt-equity ratio for 2008? A. 22.5% B. 26.2% C. 35.5% D. 45.1% E. 47.7% Debt-equity ratio for 2008 = ($1‚170 + $500) ($3‚500 + $1‚200) = .355 = 35.5% 3. What is the times interest earned ratio for 2008? A. 30 B. 36 C. 40
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MGMT640 – Textbook Notes PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 1 – The Financial Manager and The Firm 1.1 The Role of the Financial Manager * financial manager should make decisions that maximize value of owners stock/wealth – wealth is the economic value of the assets someone possesses * stakeholders – anyone other than an owner (stockholder) with a claim on the cash flows of a firm‚ including employees‚ suppliers‚ creditors‚ and the government * productive
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IN-TEXT CITATION AND REFERENCING CHALLENGES: A CASE OF IAA STUDENTS’ RESEARCH REPORTS BY ADONIJAH ABAYO Abstract In-text citations and referencing are key competencies in all genres of academic writings. Despite their importance‚ students in higher learning institutions‚ particularly‚ the Institute of Accountancy Arusha (IAA) third-year students pay little attention to them when writing their research reports. This article aims at identifying the in-text citation and referencing
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www.ccsenet.org/ijef International Journal of Economics and Finance Vol. 4‚ No. 5; May 2012 The Usefulness of an Accounting Information System for Effective Organizational Performance Siamak Nejadhosseini Soudani (Corresponding author) School of Accounting and Management‚ Islamic Azad University U.A.E. Branch PO Box: 502321‚ Block 4A‚ Knowledge Village‚ Dubai‚ UAE Tel: 97-14-295-3314 Received: March 19‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ijef.v4n5p136 E-mail: Siamak.nejadhosseini@gmail.com Accepted:
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1.2.2 Woolworth 5 2. Capital Structures 6 2.1 Types of Funding 6 2.2 Recent Trends of Leverage 7 2.3 Comparison of capital structure with similar companies 9 2.4 Capital expenditures and its financing 10 2.5 Important factors influencing the use of debt financing 10 2.5.1 Tax Advantage 10 2.5.2 Corporate Tax Rate 11 2.5.3 Credit rating 11 2.5.4 Interest rate 11 2.5.5 Company’s Industry 12 2.5.6 Company’s growth rate 12 2.5.7
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Chapter 04 Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth Multiple Choice Questions 1. Phil is working on a financial plan for the next three years. This time period is referred to as which one of the following? A. financial range B. planning horizon C. planning agenda D. short-run E. current financing period 2. Atlas Industries combines the smaller investment proposals from each operational unit into a single project for planning purposes. This process is referred to as which one
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