1. What three trends affect business management in general and financial management in particular? ANSWER: 1.The increased globalization of business 2. Ever-improving information technology 3. Corporate governance or the way the top managers operate and interface with stockholders. 2. What’s the difference between a stock’s current market price and its intrinsic value? ANSWER: Market price is based on perceived but possibly incorrect
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (FIN5FMA)‚ SEMESTER 2‚ 2014 – ASSIGNED QUESTIONS FOR TUTORIAL 1 This assigned tutorial work is taken from Chapter 1 of Fundamentals of Financial Management 13th Edition‚ Brigham and Houston (2013). Question 1-3 Suppose three honest individuals gave you their estimates of Stock X’s intrinsic value. One is your current roommate‚ the second is a professional security analyst with an excellent reputation on Wall Street‚ and the third is Company X’s CFO. If the three estimates
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in the management of the firm. 3. In a corporation‚ what group has the ultimate responsibility for protecting and managing the stockholders’ interests? Board of directors 4. What document is necessary to form a corporation? Articles of incorporation 5. What issue does agency theory examine? Why is it important in a public corporation rather than in a private corporation? It examines the relationship between the owners of the firm and the managers of the firm. Management in privately
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Part A There are three main areas of decision making for the corporate financial manager: Investment: The choice of projects or assets in which to invest company funds. Competing alternatives have to be assessed using a number of techniques. This type of decision will also be of concern to the private individual when making choices about which shares to buy. Finance: How these investments should be financed. It is necessary to evaluate the possible sources‚ external and internal‚ and the effect
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION Business firms exist because they satisfy a human need by providing a product or service. No business firm can be established without sufficient financing. The owner(s) therefore put personal loans they have entered into‚ and/or their hard-earned savings‚ at stake to partially finance the firm. The owner’s or owners’ contribution is referred to as owners’ equity. Normally‚ owners’ equity is not sufficient Borrowed funds (loans) have to be repaid through
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Financial Management Question 1 Explain‚ with examples‚ how you would measure risk of a single asset Definition The general definition of the risk is as volatility‚ measured by standard deviation. However‚ it is not easy to define the concept of risk. It exists the future is uncertain‚ the investment result have probability to loss or have any changing. The estimated return will not be achieved. Volatility which is equal to risk seems to be the common approach from trading. The smaller standard
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customers and projects with his loan application. He also included a list of current receivables. Gupta told the loan officer that he had monitored his firm’s financial status closely and that he had financial reports prepared every six months. He said that the would send a copy to the bank. In addition‚ he was willing to file a personal financial statement with the bank. Question: 1. Prepare your recommendation on Agarwal Cast Company Caselet 2 This case has been framed in order to test the skills
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MBA International - Managing Financial Performance (ACC 7011) Assignment 2014(1) Q1 The Hibu Group Plc facilitates connections between consumers who want to find products and services locally and the merchants who provide them. They assist merchants compete in the digital world with a broad range of marketing and commerce solutions delivered online and through direct sales teams. They are a long established directories provider offering a range of print and distribution based marketing services supported
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features of ordinary share & bonds? (B) Explain the steps involved in preparing a financial plan. What are the merits of financial planning? Q2. (A) What are the incremental cash flows? Briefly explain effects of the follow on calculation of incremental cash flows : A – sun costs. B- Allocated over heads. C- Opportunity cost. (B) “There are 2 dangerous situations that management should usually avoid in Controlling inventories”. Explain? Q3. (A) “The
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SECTION A PART ONE: ANSWERS ONLY. 1.a)ignored non-corporate enterprise 2.c)redeemable preference shares 3.a)political risk 4.a)future cost 5.c)designing optimal corporate capital structure 6.b)firms point 7.d)agency cost 8.a)legal requirement 9.b)default risk 10.a)beta PART TWO: 1. . Annuity is fixed sum of money paid every year in at any other fixed interval shorter than a year. This annuity may be by way of return of some principal plus interest payment
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