INV3701/101/3/2012 Tutorial letter 101/3/2012 INVESTMENTS: EQUITY ASSET VALUATION INV3701 Semester Course Department of Finance‚ Risk Management and Banking This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Bar code Open Rubric CONTENTS 1 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME ............................................................................................... 3 Tutorial matter .....................................................................
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BDO Case Study – “Accounting for Stock Options” Congratulations‚ your firm has just won a new engagement for the December 31‚ 2012 audit of Stock It (the Company). You are the lead senior on the engagement and thus were delegated the task of auditing the client’s equity balances. In review‚ you noted that the client has a significant amount of stock options issued to their employees‚ a means that many start-up companies use to compensate employees and entice them to put in the effort to make the
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SHARE OPTIONS IN THE STOCKMARKET The principal business of stock exchanges is trade in physical shares‚ but they also trade in share options in the major stocks. An option gives the holder the right to buy or sell a share at a predetermined price at some point in the future – for example‚ the right to buy shares in three months’ time at a price set today. An option which gives the buyer the right to buy a share is a “call” option. An option which gives the buyer the right to sell a share is a
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International Capital Market (3IM) Lecture 9 Option versus Stock Investments • Could a call option strategy be preferable to a direct stock purchase? • Suppose you think a stock‚ currently selling for $100‚ will appreciate. • A 6-month call costs $10 (contract size is 100 shares). • You have $10‚000 to invest. • Strategy A: Invest entirely in stock. Buy 100 shares‚ each selling for $100. • Strategy B: Invest entirely in at-the-money call options. Buy 1‚000 calls‚ each selling for $10. (This would
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Stock control methods There are several method for controlling stock‚ all designed to provide an efficient system for deciding wha‚ when and how much to order. You may opt for one method or two or more if you have various types of stock. * Minimum stock level - you identify a minimum stock level‚ and re-order when stock reaches that level. This is known as the just in time methd. * Stock reviw - you have regular reviews of stock. At every review you place an order to return stocks to
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arrangements by which employees receive shares of stock or other equity instruments of the employer or the employer incurs liabilities to employees in amounts based on the price of the employer’s stock. Compensation cost should be measured at the grant date based on the value of the award and is recognized over the service period‚ which is usually the vesting period‚ under the fair value based method. Compensation costs are recognized for other types of stock-based compensation plans under Opinion 25‚ including
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Value Stock vs. Growth Stock September 14‚ 2013 Growth and value are styles of investing in stocks (Emerald‚ 2013). Analysts commonly classify companies with low market-to-book ratios as value stocks‚ and firms with high market-to-book ratios as growth stocks (Berk & DeMarzo‚ 2011). Neither approach is certain to give appreciation in stock market value; both carry the possibility of risk. The return
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overall value of the firm‚ it should use debt to finance the $100 million purchase. Since interest payments are tax deductible‚ debt in the firm’s capital structure will decrease the firm’s taxable income‚ creating a tax shield that will increase the overall value of the firm. 2. Since Stephenson is an all-equity firm with 15 million shares of common stock outstanding‚ worth $32.50 per share‚ the market value of the firm is: Market value of equity = $32.50(15‚000‚000) Market value of equity
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inherent in the option investment strategies‚ please perform the following analyses for call and put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s
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Stock Option and Ethics Carol Berry ACC201 Principles of Financial Accounting Instructor: David Miller August 1‚ 2011 Stock Option and Ethics In today’s corporate world stock options makes up and is increasingly dominates CEO pay packages. CEO’s and top level executives are paid in a variety of different ways and stock options are just one of the ways that they get paid. CEO’s and executives have skills and responsibilities that allow directors of companies to pay these executives an extremely
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