Text Required: Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe, 9th ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin Supplemental: Financial Management, Concepts and Applications, 3rd ed., 1995, Ramesh K.S. Rao, SouthWestern Publishing Co., Cincinnati, a division of International Thompson. The required chapters will be made available to you (Blackboard and the readings package). Course Structure and Grading The course consists of lectures, homework assignments (not graded), class case discussions, a team-based
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structure; market structure; market power; Tobin’s Q; riskshifting; moral hazard; agency problems; pecking order; trade-off theory; asset substitution. ii CapStrMktPower I M Pandey CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND MARKET POWER INTRODUCTION In corporate finance, works of Modigliani and Miller (1958; 1963) about capital structure irrelevance and tax shield advantage paved way for the development of alternative theories and a series of empirical research on capital structure. The alternative theories
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practices like capital structure decision, dividend policy, investment appraisal techniques, working capital management and financial performance assessment in Pakistani corporate sector. Sample of the study consisted of forty companies operating in Pakistan, related to different sectors and listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The finance executives and financial analysts of the companies responded to questionnaire that identified through company profiles and references. The questionnaires were self administered
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[pic] Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance FINS 5516 International Corporate Finance Course Outline Session 1, 2010 1. Course Staff 3 1.1 Communication with Staff 3 2. Information about the course 3 2.1 Teaching Times and Locations 3 2.2 Units of Credit 3 2.3 Parallel Teaching in the Course 3 2.4 Relationship of This Course to Other Course Offerings 3 3. Course Aims and Learning Outcomes 3 3.1 Course Aims 3 3.2 Student Learning Outcomes 4
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Introduction Liquidity and profitability are two major elements for judging company day to day performance. Company has liquidity means it is able to pay off short term loan, and its cash flow is positive to ensure business running into a profitable future. How much cash that a business hold in stock is crucial for the business, it can indicate whether a company can continue without going concern problem. Working capital is subtractive between current assets and current liabilities, and it is helpful
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STANDARD EDITION Ross Westerfield Jordan FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE tenth edition StuDEntS... Want to get better grades? (Who doesn’t?) Prefer to do your homework online? (After all, you are online anyway…) Need a better way to study before the big test? (A little peace of mind is a good thing…) With McGraw-Hill's Connect Plus Finance, ® StudentS get: • Easy online access to homework, tests, and quizzes assigned by your instructor. • Immediate feedback on how you’re doing
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financial statements. Cost of equity The method preferred for calculating the cost of equity for Amazon.com is by applying CAPM model. The beta for 2014 has been determined by using the daily returns of market index i.e. S&P 500 and the stock (Finance, 2014). The results were as shown in the table below: Covariance | 0.000069 | Variance | 0.000050 | Beta | 1.380 | Formula used for beta is: Beta=
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Northampton Group Inc. – Case Study Analyses: How to increase shareholder value Nicole Arends, Jenny Feng, Laura Tromp & Zilha Wever FHTMS University of Aruba Mr. Don Taylor Corporate Finance FTS 2415 March 26, 2013 Introduction This Corporate Finance paper focuses on analyzing the challenges that Northampton Group Inc. (NGI) is facing as it tries to increase shareholder value. In the case study it is stated by the firm’s major shareholders, that they believe
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Bilal Al- Qureshi, Said Business School, University of Oxford 2010 American Chemical Corporation HBS Case Number: 9-290-102 Executive Summary The American Chemical Corporation (AMC) is a large, diversified chemical producer. In 1979, AMC was forced to issue a tender to sell a Sodium Chlorate plant, near Collinsville, Alabama. Dixon, a specialty chemicals company, was willing to purchase the aforementioned plant for $12m with the option to invest a further $2.25m on laminate technology. The subsequent
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