BUSS384 - Corporate Finance - Problem Set #1 Due by Wednesday‚ 15 October 2014 1. [10 points] Sydney Industries‚ Inc.‚ is considering a new project that costs $30 million. The project will generate after-tax (year-end) cash flows of $8 million for five years. The firm has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25. The cost of equity is 12 percent and the cost of debt is 7 percent. The corporate tax rate is 40 percent. It appears that the project has the same risk of the overall firm. Should Sydney undertake
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increases. e. The flotation costs associated with issuing preferred stock increase. __c__ 2. Duval Inc. uses only equity capital‚ and it has two equally-sized divisions. Division A’s cost of capital is 10.0%‚ Division B’s cost is 14.0%‚ and the corporate (composite) WACC is 12.0%. All of Division A’s projects are equally risky‚ as are all of Division B’s projects. However‚ the projects of Division A are less risky than those of Division B. Which of the following projects should the firm accept?
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Origin of the Term Paper: This term paper is a requirement for the course Managerial Finance (FIN435) under our honorable instructor Md. Lutfur Rahman‚ the Department of Business Administration‚ East West University. Objectives of the study: As a part of the course Managerial Finance‚ we had the opportunity to prepare a term paper on Dividend policy and capital structure of the following DSE listed firms- ← Pran (AMCL) ← BATBC ← Dhaka Fisheries ← National Tea ← Apex
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Entrepreneurial Finance Philippe Gregoire Louvain School of Management – Université catholique de Louvain Reference book : Entrepreneurial finance‚ a casebook. Paul A. Gompers and William A. Sahlman. John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. 2002 1 Entrepreneurial finance Project assessment (POCD) Funding (amount‚ firm’s value‚ best partner) Deal (ownership / control / incentives) Exit (IPO) Project Assessment • 4 critical success factors for entrepreneurial ventures People Opportunity
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the form of payments? 5. What should Mr. Cizik recommend that the Cooper management do? CONGOLEUM CORP 1. WHAT CHARACTERISTICS OF CONGOLEUM MAKE IT A LIKELY CANDIDATE FOR A LEVERAGE BUYOUT? 2. WHY WOULD INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS BE WILLING TO FINANCE A LEVERAGE BUYOUT WITH THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE PROPOSED? 3. WHAT RETURN WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS ON AN INVESTMENT WITH THIS RISK LEVEL? WHAT RETURN WILL THE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS REALIZE IF THEIR TIME HORIZON FOR THE INVESTMENT
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Task 1 Identify the different sources of finance available to Mr Norman for buying the new online learning system to expand his service business. There are many different sources of finance available to Mr Norman for investment in order to expand his business. These include: Using personal savings to invest in the business growth Raising equity through issue of new shares. Short term bank loan Long term bank loan Bank overdraft Using retained earnings from the profits earned in the past
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WHAT IS OVERTRADING? Overtrading means a situation of operating a business with insufficient long term capital to support the current volume of business. A situation in which a company is growing its sales faster than it can finance them. Overtrading often occurs when companies expand their own operations too quickly aggressively. Overtrading can arise even if the organization is trading profitably. Over-expansion of business is one of the main reasons for overtrading and therefore overtrading
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debt outstanding with an aggregate book value of $400 million. The bonds issued by Margo are currently yielding 10%‚ and are trading at 90% of face value. The risk-free rate if 8%‚ the market risk premium is 9%‚ and Margo has a equal to 2. The corporate tax rate is 34%. a. Margo is considering expansion of its facilities. Use the SML approach to determine the cost of equity capital for Margo. b. Compute the weighted average cost of capital for Margo. c. The project under consideration requires
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APPENDIX 1 QUESTIONNAIRE I am writing my Master Thesis in Finance with the topic deal with stock price. This questionnaire consists of * question and should take 5 - & minutes to answer. In each question choose the alternative that best reflects your own opinion or experiences. Your answers will greatly help in contributing to the research on my thesis. 1) Where you can get information of the company that you will invest in its stock? - Media -Newspaper -Internet -TV -Friends‚ Colleagues
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TOKYO DISNEYLAND AND THE DISNEY SEA PARK: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND DIFFERENCES IN THE CAPITAL BUDGETING CONCEPTS AND METHODS BETWEEN AMERICAN AND JAPANESE COMPANIES. 1.What are the industry differences in US Corporate Governance and Japanese Corporate Governance? JAPANIES CORPORATE GOVERNANCE US CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Stakeholders of organiztions: Japanies system believs in the wealth maximization of stake holders‚ including managers‚ labour‚ suppliers‚ crediters etc American syatem always emphasized
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