9-204-109 REV: OCTOBER 23‚ 2006 MIHIR DESAI Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES In June 2003‚ Rob Venerus‚ director of the newly created Corporate Analysis & Planning group at The AES Corporation‚ thumbed through the five-inch stack of financial results from subsidiaries and considered the breadth and scale of AES. In the 12 years since it had gone public‚ AES had become a leading independent supplier of electricity in the world with more than $33 billion in assets
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Prepared for The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Vol. 15‚ No. 1‚ 2002 How do CFOs make capital budgeting and capital structure decisions?1 John R. Graham Associate Professor of Finance‚ Fuqua School of Business‚ Duke University‚ Durham‚ NC 27708 USA Campbell R. Harvey Professor of Finance‚ Fuqua School of Business‚ Duke University‚ Durham‚ NC 27708 USA National Bureau of Economic Research‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02912 USA March 8‚ 2002 1A longer and more detailed version of this paper is published
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Week 5 Case Study Capital Budgeting Case Capital Budgeting Case This week‚ Learning Team C‚ has completed capital budgeting on Corporation A and Corporation B. We were given $250‚000.000 to acquire a corporation. We decided to choose Corporation B. To ensure that our decision was the best‚ this week‚ we defined‚ analyzed‚ and interpreted the Net Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return for both Corporations. We made the decision based on more financial sense. Below‚ we have outlined our
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Management Accounting: Capital Budgeting and Qualitative Measures. “One of the key areas of long-term decision-making that firms must tackle is that of investment - the need to commit funds by purchasing land‚ buildings‚ machinery and so on‚ in anticipation of being able to earn an income greater than the funds committed”. (Investment Appraisal sheet). A Capital Budgeting Process essentially defined as‚ “the process by which the financial manager decides whether to invest in specific capital projects or assets”
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CAPITAL BUDGETING: ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS. SEPTEMBER 2012 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background Study Capital budgeting is the process by which firms determine how to invest their capital. Included in this process are the decisions to invest in new projects‚ reassess the amount of capital already invested in existing projects‚ allocate and ration capital
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“CAPITAL BUDGETING INAIR-INDIA” PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES. MUMBAI UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED BY: - Mr. VISHAL D. JADHAV M.M.S 09-11 (Finance) SUBMITTED TO: - AIR- INDIA LTD. UNDER THE GUIDANCE: - Mr. SHOBHAN A. TALAVDEKAR DECLARATION I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE COMPLETED THIS PROJECT ON “CAPITAL BUDGETING” IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011. THIS INFORMATION IS TRUE AND ORIGINAL TO
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Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are in line with the goal of investors’ wealth maximization. When a business makes a capital investment (assets such as equipment‚ building‚ land etc.) it incurs a cash outlay in the expectation of future benefits. The expected benefits generally extend beyond one year in the future. Out of different investment proposals available to a business‚ it has to choose a proposal that provides the best return and the
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GLOBALIZING THE COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL BUDGETING AT AES 1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? 2. If you implemented the methodology suggested by Venerus‚ what would be the range of discount rates one would use around the world? 3. Does this make sense as a way to do capital budgeting? 4. How big a value difference does this new approach make to the Pakistan project? 5. How do these cost of capital modifications translate into changed probabilities
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Spring 09‚ Part 8 – Topics in Capital Budgeting Professor James P. Dow‚ Jr. Part 8. Topics in Capital Budgeting In part 7 we learned the basics of capital budgeting. However‚ we ignored some of the complications that can arise when evaluating projects. In this section we look at a few of those issues. How Uncertainty Affects the Capital Budgeting Decision Every project has uncertainty and so we need to determine how risk affects how we make decisions. Large corporations often use very sophisticated
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CAPITAL BUDGETING – INVESTMENT DECISIONS SUBMITTED BY : Abhisht Sinha (08305) Himangi Malik (08321) Swagata Ghoshal (08337) Tijeel Kumar Tarun (08352 I. CASE ABOUT BUILT OPERATE AND TRANSFER The case taken is about Built Operate and Transfer. It is a feasibility report which was prepared to present economic analysis carried out on the project and contain result of economic evaluation of the project so that the owner can take investment decision and the project can be properly planned and
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