Corporate Finance Career Overview If you work in private enterprise‚ your company measures its success at the end of the year by comparing how much money it made to how much it spent. If it has made more than it has spent‚ it was a good year. If it has made less than it has spent‚ it was a bad year—or the company is in an investment phase. (In other words‚ like Amazon.com‚ it spent more than it made because the company and its investors believed it would realize a profit in the near future
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THE PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE FINANCE CHAPTER 1: The time value of money We are going to link the present and the future by using the notion of interest rate that could be called discount rate‚ required rate of return or cost of capital. Finance is all about cash flows but more precisely about the exact date of the realization of the cash flow. I) PRESENT VALUE Example 1: What is the value today of $110 to be received in one year? - suppose the interest rate ‚ r =10%
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Week 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance 1.4. Assignment 1a Due date: January 30‚ 2011 Instruction: Please submit your assignment as an attachment to my Blackboard E-mail by midnight on the due date Assume that you recently graduated with a degree in finance and have just reported to work as an investment advisor at the brokerage firm of Balik and Kiefer Inc. One of the firm’s clients is Michelle Dellatorre‚ a professional tennis player who has just come to the United States from Chile
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Corporate Finance Syllabus Spring 2009 Prof. Anna Scherbina UC Davis Graduate School of Management Office: 126 AOB IV Tel: 530.754.8076 e-mail: ascherbina@ucdavis.edu Course Focus We will explore how corporations make financial decisions through the analysis of Harvard Business School cases. Should a firm undertake a new investment opportunity‚ raise equity‚ acquire another firm‚ or conduct an IPO? How should small firms manage their working capital? How fast should a firm grow
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provide a framework for understanding the determinants of corporate investment‚ financing‚ hedging‚ payout‚ and executive compensation policies. The course will provide an analysis of the determinants of each policy as well as the implications for shareholder value. While the basic economic insights will be presented through simple examples‚ the course is quantitative in nature. Course material The reference textbook is Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo‚ Pearson International
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Introduction To Corporate Finance: A division or department that oversees the financial activities of a company. Corporate finance is primarily concerned with maximizing shareholder value through long-term and short-term financial planning and the implementation of various strategies. Everything from capital investment decisions to investment banking falls under the domain of corporate finance. Corporate finance is the funding provided to support the operations of the venture itself‚ as distinct
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The Bible and Corporate Finance People rarely associate religion with the business world or the finance industry‚ nor do they think religion can guide the practice. From a logical standpoint religion and a firm’s operations do not correlate. From a societal view people see good religious peoples businesses fail while godless industries thrive. The question usually asked is how does the Bible apply to business world? The real question should be how could the Bible and God guide me in my profession
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Chapter 14 Capital Structure in a Perfect Market 14-1. Consider a project with free cash flows in one year of $130‚000 or $180‚000‚ with each outcome being equally likely. The initial investment required for the project is $100‚000‚ and the project’s cost of capital is 20%. The risk-free interest rate is 10%. a. What is the NPV of this project? b. Suppose that to raise the funds for the initial investment‚ the project is sold to investors as an all-equity firm. The equity holders will receive
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Joanne Jackson June 1‚ 2011 Corporate Finance 620 M 600-950 Ch. 12 Mini Case A. Do you think Adam Lee should develop a strategic plan for the company? Why? What are the central elements of such a plan? What is the role of finance in a strategic plan? Yes. The goal of companies is to create more wealth for the owners and for financial managers to make their company more valuable and without well designed strategic and tactical plans in place it is impossible to do. The central
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For the exclusive use of C. Portillo Cardenas‚ 2015 UV1201 Rev. Feb. 13‚ 2009 EMI GROUP PLC In this Internet age‚ the consumer is using music content more than ever before— whether that’s playlisting‚ podcasting‚ personalizing‚ sharing‚ downloading or just simply enjoying it. The digital revolution has caused a complete change to the culture‚ operations‚ and attitude of music companies everywhere. It hasn’t been easy‚ and we must certainly continue to fight piracy in all its forms. But there can
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