valuations: the Weighted Average Cost of Capital WACC (and derived methods) and Adjusted Present Value (APV)1. For practical purposes, as is often the case of many larger firms in industrialized economies, whenever a target debt ratio is set up for the long term, WACC and its associated methods might be an acceptable approximation. However, the situation is different in a considerable number of instances: The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is a common topic in the financial management
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Notes 9: Expansion Decisions Objectives: To review analytical techniques used to justify expansion decisions To compare and contrast the NPV and APV methods of analysis Nature of expansion decisions Expansion cash flows Valuation alternatives: NPV; APV Derivation of NPV model Derivation of APV model Capital structure issues Topics: Initial Capital investment Additional Capital investment For replacement and expansion - $ FCF FCFs are a function of value chain
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Sampa Video, Inc. • A small video chain is deciding whether to engage in a new line of delivery business and is conducting an economic analysis of the valuation impacts of this decision. • This is a case basically regarding how to measure the benefits of financial leverage via different valuation approaches. Firm valuation (discount cash flow) and cost of capital • When you use the after-tax cost of capital to be the discount rate, you basically take in the effect of the financing. • If you
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VALUATION TECHNIQUES Vault Guide to Finance Interviews Valuation Techniques How Much is it Worth? Imagine yourself as the CEO of a publicly traded company that makes widgets. You’ve had a highly successful business so far and want to sell the company to anyone interested in buying it. How do you know how much to sell it for? Likewise, consider the Bank of America acquisition of Fleet. How did B of A decide how much it should pay to buy Fleet? For starters, you should understand that the value
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VALUATION TECHNIQUES Vault Guide to Finance Interviews Valuation Techniques How Much is it Worth? Imagine yourself as the CEO of a publicly traded company that makes widgets. You’ve had a highly successful business so far and want to sell the company to anyone interested in buying it. How do you know how much to sell it for? Likewise, consider the Bank of America acquisition of Fleet. How did B of A decide how much it should pay to buy Fleet? For starters, you should understand that the value
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MSc Corporate Finance Dr. Kirak Kim Before we start Main branches of finance Corporate Finance How do we value projects and (optimally) finance them? Asset Pricing How do we price securities more precisely? What’s the difference? Is it a Corporate Finance question or an Asset Pricing question? □ You are the manager of Intel Corp. You are reviewing the proposal for the new plant to be built in China. The new plant requires a large onetime investment but will provide significant
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Capital Budgeting Finance 100 Prof. Michael R. Roberts Copyright © Michael R. Roberts 1 Topic Overview How should capital be allocated? » Do I invest / launch a product / buy a building / scrap / outsource... » Should I acquire / sell / accept offer for company or division? » How should the capital budgeting process be organized? Which choices should I make? » make or buy » which distribution channel » should I test market a product Copyright © Michael R. Roberts 2 1 1
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troubled firm Market Normalized Earnings Book Revenues Value Sector specific Undeveloped land Equity Valuation Models Dividends Firm Valuation Models Patent Undeveloped Reserves Free Cashflow to Firm Cost of capital approach APV approach Excess Return Models Aswath Damodaran 4 Discounted Cashflow Valuation: Basis for Approach CF1 CF2 CF3 CF4 CFn + + +
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Ch. 14. An overview of Corporate Finance. 14.1 Cash for investments is generated mostly (USA: 80%) internally as depreciation and retained earnings. Still, companies have a gap between cash they need and cash they generate internally. This gap is financial deficit. So companies have to either sell new equity or borrow.This causes two different kinds of problems: 1) The plow back ratio? => Dividend policy 2) The proportions of debt and
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SPREADSHEET MODELING IN CORPORATE FINANCE To accompany Principles of Corporate Finance by Brealey and Myers CRAIG W. HOLDEN Richard G. Brinkman Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor Kelley School of Business Indiana University Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 To Kathryn, you’re the inspiration, and to Diana and Jimmy, with joy and pride. Craig CONTENTS Preface PART 1 TIME VALUE OF MONEY Chapter 1 Single Cash Flow 1.1 Present Value 1.2 Future Value Problems
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