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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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 stretched across 30 countries and 5 continents. Venerus now faced
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issued by small company and that bond also pays annual interest of 5%. Virtually all investors would buy the government bond the first is less risky while paying the same interest rate as the riskier second bond. Furthermore‚ in order to attract capital from investors‚ the small firm issuing the second bond must pay an interest rate higher than 5% that the government bond pays otherwise no investor is likely to buy that bond. If the firm offering to pay an interest rate more than than 5%‚ it gives
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Globalizing the Cost of Capital Budgeting at AES Chia yun ‚Tsai(Debbie) 2013/3/22 The reason why Rob Venerus used the cost of capital concept to improve upon what AES had used in the past for a discount rate is because the old model always used the same discount rate for the model. However‚ with electricity generating businesses around the world‚ the old model started to cause some problems. In the past‚ AES used the same cost of capital for all of its capital budgeting‚ but the company’s international
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International Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital Agenda 1 2 3 4 5 International Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital Analyzing Cost of Capital among Countries Cross Border Listing of Stocks International Asset Pricing Model (IAPM) The Financial Structure of Subsidiaries Case Analysis - AES Corporation 6 International Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital Your Logo International Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital • Firms are becoming multinational in
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Estimate the required net working capital for each year and the cash flow due to investments in net working capital. The firm needs to increase its net working capital by 12% of incremental sales revenues. This amount is needed in the year before the sales revenue is earned. The amount for year 0 is 12% x $250‚000 = $30‚000.00‚ and that for year 1‚ 2‚ and 3 are $30‚900.00‚ $31‚827.00‚ and $32‚781.81 respectively. The cash flow due to the changes in the working capital is shown in Table 2. Year 0 1 2
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Hittle Company Ltd (Case Study) You are a financial analyst for the Hittle Company. The director of capital budgeting has asked you to analyze two proposed capital investments‚ project X and Y. Each project has a cost of $10000 and the cost of capital for each project is 12 percent. The projects expected net cash flows are as follows: |Expected Cash flows | | | | | |year
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Case 3: Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES Question 1 Explain and comment on the capital budgeting method used historically by AES. Is there a need for change? Explain. Question 2 If Venerus implements the suggested methodology‚ what will be the adjusted discount rate for the Red Oak project (USA) and the Lal Plr project (Pakistan)? Question 3 Calculate the effect that a revision of its cost of capital will have on the Lal Plr project’s NPV. Comment on the
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doing well and expanding at a high rate one must put into consideration the risks that ascertain that particular business. In the case of the AES‚ the founders did not put much consideration into their expanding business to the overseas accounts. Their main undoing was the assumption of the risks involved as same as in the U.S as it were in the foreign countries. The AEs had its majority revenues linked to overseas operations with approximately one-third coming from South America alone. Since the company
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