three categories to which incremental cash flows can be classified. • Analyze an expansion project and make a decision whether the project should be accepted on the basis of standard capital budgeting techniques. • Explain three reasons why corporate risk is important even if a firm’s stockholders are well diversified. • Identify two reasons why stand-alone risk is important. • Demonstrate sensitivity and scenario analyses and explain Monte Carlo simulation. • Discuss the two methods
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Management) (FIN 534) Class Meeting time/Day (Friday 17:45 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Professor (Michael Keith Simms) Quarter (Summer 2011) Today’s Date (Friday August 26, 2011) Assignment 4: Capital Structure analysis Read Problem 28, chapter 16. Answer questions a) to d) and prepare a report (3_4 pages) on your conclusions; Show calculations. Info Systems Technology (IST) manufactures microprocessor chips for use in appliances and other applications. IST has no debt and 100 million shares outstanding
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weeks, at the next meeting of the firm’s board of directors, Frank Bosworth, vice president of finance, is scheduled to present his recommendations for next year’s overall financial plan. He has asked Donna Botello, manager of financial planning, to gather the necessary information and perform the calculations for the financial plan. The company’s divisional staff s, together with corporate finance department personnel, have analyzed several proposed capital expenditure projects. The following
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Ace Repair Inc. Case Study The owner of Ace Repair Inc, Peter Vanderhein thought that he needed special expertise for the finance function forced by the rapid growth of the company and he recognized that the estimate of the cost of capital itself was questionable. The controller who is in charge of the financial part has been using book value weights to calculate WACC but it considers only long-term capital value. At this point, the problem is that they want to decide what weights should be used
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possible consequences are. The question concerning the long working hours was raised in court. “It depends on deadlines. Some of it is peer pressure. There is a general expectation in our profession.” said Juergen Schroeder an employee of the corporate finance department of Bank of America. “Being in the City is like being in a bubble. You throw yourself into it and forget about the rest of the world.” said a previous intern and now writer Polly Courtney. This demonstrates what the magic of the City
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= 9% Rm = return on market = 13% beta = 1.6 Cost of equity = 9% + (13%-9%) 1.6 = 15.4% 3. On the basis of your answers to #1 & #2, what is your final estimate for the firm's cost of equity? We take the average of the two costs as the final estimate Final estimate is the average of the two = (16.3%+15.4%)/2 = 15.85% 4. Calculate the firm's estimate for corporate cost of capital. Cost of Capital = Proportion of debt X after tax cost + Proportion of equity X cost of equity = 0.5
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CASES IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYLLABUS FIN 522 Professor James A. Gentry Cases In Financial Management 343M Wohlers Hall Spring Semester 2009 333-7995 2043 BIF j-gentry@uiuc.edu Office Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
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*IS1347* //integrafs1/cengage/3-Pagination/Cengage_US/Business_and_Economics/FFM13e/3B2/brigham_endpaper.3d, 11/16/11, 17:35, page: 1 FREQUENTLY USED SYMBOLS/ABBREVIATIONS ACP Average collection period ADR American depository receipt AFN Additional funds needed AMT Alternative minimum tax APR b Annual percentage rate Beta coefficient, a measure of an asset’s riskiness bL Levered beta bU Unlevered beta BEP BVPS CAPEX CAPM CCC Basic earning power
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maximizing the current value of the firm’s stock price is the appropriate goal for management. 5. Discuss how agency conflicts affect the goal of maximizing stockholder wealth. 6. Explain why ethics is an appropriate topic in the study of corporate finance. I. Chapter Outline 1.1 The Role of the Financial Manager A. It’s All about Cash Flows • The financial manager is responsible for making decisions that are in the best interest of the firm’s owners. • A firm
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Chapter 19 Initial Public Offerings, Investment Banking, and Financial Restructuring ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 19-1 a. A closely held corporation goes public when it sells stock to the general public. Going public increases the liquidity of the stock, establishes a market value, facilitates raising new equity, and allows the original owners to diversify. However, going public increases business costs, requires disclosure of operating data, and reduces the control of the original
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