Background and Overview CITIC Pacific (CP) is the Hong Kong arm of the CITIC group, China’s largest state-owned investment company. It is publicly traded on the “Hong Kong Stock Exchange”(HKEx). CP’s major businesses are special steel manufacturing, mining of iron ore and property development in mainland China. For the year ending 31 December 2007, Citic Pacific showed a record net profit of about US$1.5 billion, representing a growth of almost 33% over the previous year.
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consider closing just the fridge division, and focusing on the parts manufacturing division, with the possibility of pursuing the option of the mobile refrigeration business. However, in this case, the problem of the lack of funding might continue. 2. Corporate Restructuring and Management Buy-Out Shareholders The shareholders would benefit from either proposal two or three, as opposed to the first proposal, as they stand to gain some funds. The restructuring proposal requires them to pay $40m cash for
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Advanced Corporate Finance [FN2] Examination Blueprint 2013/2014 Purpose The Advanced Corporate Finance [FN2] examination has been constructed using an examination blueprint. The blueprint, also referred to as the test specifications, outlines the content areas covered on the examination and the weighting allotted to each content area. This document also lists the topics, the level of competence for each topic, and the related learning objectives and competencies. The learning objectives have been
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The Finance Function in a Global Corporation Historically, the finance functions in large U.S. and European firms have focused on cost control, operating budgets, and internal auditing. But as corporations go global, a world of finance opens up within them, presenting new opportunities and challenges for CFOs. Rather than simply make aggregate capital-structure and dividend decisions, for example, they also have to wrestle with the capital structure and profit repatriation policies of their companies’
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Lottery Winnings-Looks Can Be Deceptive; Time Value of Money Case 7- It’s Better Late Than Never!; Retirement Planning Case 8- Paying Off That Dream House; Loan Amortization Case 9- Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!; Time Value of Money Case 10- Corporate Bonds-They Are More Complex Than You Think; Bond Analysis and Valuation Case 11- How Low Can It Go?; Application of Stock Valuation Methods Case 12- What Are We Really Worth; Valuation of Common Stock Case 13- The Lazy Mower: Is It Really Worth
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MULTINATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Groupe 5 Case study ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC.: Currency Hedging Review 1) What are Aspen Technology’s main exchange rate exposures? How does Aspen Tech’s business strategy give rise to these exposures as well as to the firm’s financing need? The main exchange rates exposures are: British pounds, Deutsch Mark, Japanese Yen and Belgian Francs. Aspen faces foreign currency risks due to sales and expenses in those foreign currencies. Expenses include R&D
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Corporate Finance, 9/e Stephen A. Ross, Massachussetts Institute of Technology Randolph W. Westerfield, University of Southern California Jeffrey F. Jaffe, University of Pennsylvania ISBN: 0073382337 Copyright year: 2010 Table of Contents PART I: Overview 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance 1 1.1 | What Is Corporate Finance? | 1 | | The Balance Sheet Model of the Firm | 1 | | The Financial Manager | 3 | 1.2 | The Corporate Firm | 4 | | The Sole Proprietorship | 4 | | The
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After rapid growth, the directors sold the enterprise to a public company and he established Systematic Finance plc as a consultancy specializing in: • financial modelling – review, design, build and audit • training in financial modelling, corporate finance, leasing and credit analysis on an in-house and public basis • finance and operating lease structuring as a consultant and lessor Alastair is author of a number of books including three published by FT Prentice Hall: Mastering Financial
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core areas of financial strategies and global corporate financial operations. I would like to probe specific problem areas such as the application of quantitative analysis to understanding various issues in global finance and improving decision-making and effect of increase in global communications on international finance decisions. My research interests are Foreign exchange markets, hedging foreign exchange risk, international capital budgeting, corporate financial strategy including mergers and acquisitions
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Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA First edition 2009 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s
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