questions. Answer ALL questions in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page. Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the invigilator. Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of: i) ii) the Question Paper an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO This examination paper consists of 5 printed pages © Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL BM/APR
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would be advisable to Ikea? a. standardization. b. new product development. c. adaptation. d. withdraw from market. e. lower prices to encourage attitude change. Answer: (c) Difficulty: (1) Knowledge: (A) Page: 349 2. In the Australian market‚ rather than manufacturing disposable diapers‚ Proctor & Gamble decided to import them since the size of the market did not warrant local manufacturing according to P&G. Unfortunately‚ by using packaging designed
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PRINCIPLES OF VALUATION Because rational people prefer to receive benefits sooner than later and make sacrifices later than sooner‚ money‚ which provides the option to buy benefits‚ is likewise preferred sooner to later. If an individual prefers money sooner than later‚ then he/she values a dollar today more than a dollar tomorrow or a dollar in one year from now. A dollar today is worth a dollar today: therefore‚ a dollar next year must be worth less than a dollar today since it is less preferable/valuable
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Introduction. Some organizational behavior problems I would like to explore in this paper are management style‚ job dissatisfaction‚ and organizational change and restructuring at National City Bank (based in Cleveland‚ Ohio) stemming from a recent change in its organizational culture. National City recently merged with PNC (Pittsburgh National Corporation) and with the merger came a change in the organizational culture at National City. Before the merger‚ National City’s strategy for acquiring
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Fernández. IESE Business School Company valuation methods. The most common errors in valuations Company valuation methods. The most common errors in valuations∗ Pablo Fernández PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Corporate Finance IESE Business School Camino del Cerro del Aguila 3. Telephone 34-91-357 08 09. 28023 Madrid‚ Spain e-mail: fernandezpa@iese.edu In this paper‚ we describe the four main groups comprising the most widely used company valuation methods: balance sheet-based methods‚ income
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THIS IS A LIST OF EXCEL PROGRAMS THAT YOU MIGHT FIND USEFUL. THEY ARE NOT COPY PROTECTED. FEEL FREE TO MODIFY THEM TO YOUR OWN NEEDS. Corporate Finance Spreadsheets 1. capbudg.xls: This program allows you to do a basic capital budgeting analysis for a project‚ and compute NPV‚ IRR and ROI. (For Macintosh version) 2. risk.xls: This program allows you to use past returns on a stock and a market index to analyse its price performance (Jensen’s Alpha)‚ its sensitivity to market movements
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gold for 10 ounces of platinum‚ which trades at $550 per ounce in a competitive market‚ he should reject the trade. The benefit (the cash value today of the gold‚ $5000) is smaller than the cost (the cash value today of the platinum‚ $5500). By evaluating cost and benefits using competitive market prices‚ we can determine whether a decision will make the firm and its investors wealthier. This point is one of the central and most powerful ideas in finance‚ which we call the Valuation Principle:
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Baidu CASE: A-197 DATE: 02/05/09 BAIDU.COM‚ INC.: VALUATION AT IPO Since its official launch in January 2000‚ Baidu.com‚ Inc. (Baidu) quickly grew to become the leading Internet search engine in China. After three rounds of private funding‚ Baidu registered to go public on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Ticker Symbol: BIDU) on August 5‚ 2005. (See Exhibits 1 and 2 for a listing of Baidu’s private funding sources and pre-IPO share allocations.) The initial public offering (IPO) turned out to be one of
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Düsseldorf Business School at the Heinrich-Heine-University 5b Value Management & Cost Management Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Franz Valuation of a company KIA MOTORS By: Youngsook Kwon‚ Date: Jan 30‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Valuation Methodology 2 2.1. Discounted Cash Flow 2 2.2. Terminal Value 3 2.3. Weighted Average Cost of Capital 3 2.3.1 Cost of Equity 4 2.3.2 Cost of
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4.4 PAGE REPLACEMENT ALGORITHMS When a page fault occurs‚ the operating system has to choose a page to remove from memory to make room for the page that has to be brought in. If the page to be removed has been modified while in memory‚ it must be rewritten to the disk to bring the disk copy up to date. If‚ however‚ the page has not been changed (e.g.‚ it contains program text)‚ the disk copy is already up to date‚ so no rewrite is needed. The page to be read in just overwrites the page being
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