will fall the following years: $11 million (2014) and $5 million (2015). Exhibit 4 tells us that Flash Memory would endure significant cash outflows in 2010 and 2011 due to their vast initial investment in equipment and net working capital. As net working capital begins to decline‚ sales will continue to bring in positive net income triggering the new product line to generate cash inflows in the following five years. Another factor that plays into the decision-making is that notes payable will
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charge for the cost of capital that is employed to produce the income. • EVA = NOPAT − WACC × Capital (1) where NOPAT is net operating profit after tax‚ and WACC is the weighted average cost of capital to the firm‚ an implicit market price that reflects the risk to the supplier of finance. Competitive Strategy and Game Theory Economic Value Added (or Economic Profit) • EVA = (RONA −WACC) × Capital (2) where RONA is return on net assets i.e. capital (i.e.‚ NOPAT/Capital). • The return
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1. Several factors have made Interco an attractive takeover target: 1) Interco’s stock is undervalued due to poor performance in the apparel and general merchandising divisions‚ which have weakened Interco’s valuation as a whole. 2) As stated by the equity analysts‚ Interco is an over capitalized company with potential to grow‚ which makes an acquisition easy to finance. 3) Interco is also a cash generative target for a potential acquirer as it generates approximately $0.10 of operating cash flow
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Despite these detailed steps‚ the ultimate decision lies with the entire firm. They engaged in leveraged buyouts (LBOs)‚ growth capital‚ and privatization. In LBOs‚ they use capital structures to find the best combination of price‚ leverage and returns. In order to demonstrate a serious commitment and to achieve a desired rating‚ they decided in a minimum capital structure of at least 25% equity whereas debt is roughly 4 to 5 times EBITDA depending on market conditions. They also support its management
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1: Accounting (100 marks) Paper 2: Law‚ Ethics and Communication Part I: Law (60 marks) Business Laws (30 marks) Company Law (30 marks) Part II: Business Ethics (20 marks) Part III: Business Communication (20 marks) Paper 3: Cost Accounting and Financial Management Part I: Cost Accounting (50 marks) Part II: Financial Management (50 marks) Paper 4: Taxation Part I: Income-tax (50 marks) Part II: Service Tax (25 marks) and VAT (25 marks) The level of knowledge expected of students in the above subjects
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There is nothing like optimum capital structure for a firm. The Optimal Capital structure is that Capital Structure at which the weighted Average cost of capital (Ko) is Minimum. It is that combination of Equity and Debt at which the total cost of capital is mini-mum. Trade-off theory argues that there ’s an optimal amount of debt of each firm. At this level of debt‚ firms can take the most advantage of debts. Debts can be tax shield so that they can save money for firms to reinvest in
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of these criteria as opposed to net resent value? On which criteria would you base your recommendation? 3. Evaluate the forecast. Are all relevant cash flows present? Are the assumptions reasonable? Should the cost of new sales recruits be included in the forecast? 4. If‚ in response to the question above‚ you believe the analysis should be modified‚ do so and prepare to discuss the results you obtain. What assumptions are the "key drivers" of your results
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CAPM to calculate its cost of equity‚ and its target capital structure consists of common stock‚ preferred stock‚ and debt. Which of the following events would REDUCE its WACC? a. The market risk premium declines. b. The flotation costs associated with issuing new common stock increase. c. The company’s beta increases. d. Expected inflation increases. e. The flotation costs associated with issuing preferred stock increase. __c__ 2. Duval Inc. uses only equity capital‚ and it has two equally-sized
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free cash flows during forecasted horizon. Then we estimate the cost of capital (weighted average cost of capital) and estimate continuing value (value after forecast horizon). The future value is discounted to the present value. We than add back cash ($13 Million) and non-current assets and deduct total debt. With the information provided several assumptions had to be made to obtain reasonable values (life period of 30-years‚ Capital expenditures not to exceed $1 million dollars‚ depreciation to
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as “trades at a discount”. To figure out whether AGI stock is traded at a discount to comparable companies‚ as its management believed‚ we can simply apply multiple which comes from the average multiple of its comparable companies. Considering fluctuation of future after-tax earnings caused by the change in capital structure‚ we prefer to use TEV/EBITDA multiple in this case. Amtelecom Group consists of two lines of business which has to been taken into consideration. We separately calculate the value
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